Label Academy (Cont’d from Page 1)
parts: one taking place onTuesday,October 20, and the second on Tuesday, October 27. Part one will cover materials and print processes, in- cluding an introduction to flexible packaging, creation of artwork and pre-press and printing processes and techniques. The second part will focus on setting up a flexible packaging operation,with sessions including
flexible packaging and the label printer, inks, coatings, curing and laminating, converting flexible packaging and from labels to flexibles — a converter perspective. UPM Forest Film Receives Innovation Award UPM Raflatac’s Forest Film label material has received the 2020 Innovation in Responsible Sourcing award from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC). Forest Film is claimed to be the world’s first polypro- pylene film label material derived entirely from wood- based sources based on mass balance approach. The sourcing begins with UPM Raflatac’s sister com- pany, UPM Biofuels, which converts pulp production residue, crude tall oil from sustainably managed forests, into renewable naphtha, a drop-in raw material for the chemical industry. This product, called UPM BioVerno, is sent to a resin supplier and then a film supplier to convert it into the filmic face material the UPM Raflatac then manufac- tures into the laminate label material known as Forest Film. Forest Film is an International Sustainability and Car- bon Certification (ISCC) PLUS-certified product,mean- ing it uses sustainable resources to replace an equiv- alent amount of fossil resources in the production process — the mass balance approach.
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