Siegwerk wins Sustainability Awards 2022

‘It is such an honor to be recognized as two-time winner at this year’s Sustainability Awards,’ celebrated Christopher van Laack, vice president Business Units Paper and Board EMEA and Liquid Food Packaging at Siegwerk. ‘Being selected as winner in the category “Renewable Materials” is already a great success for our UniNature series but being awarded the “Most Sustainable Innovation” at the same time is a remarkable triumph for us that shows once again that we are on the right track to significantly drive the development of sustainable packaging. 

 

‘Our thanks go to all Siegwerkers who helped making UniNATURE a reality - all your hard work is now paying off! You can be proud for achieving this major milestone on our journey to actively promoting packaging circularity.’ 

 

UniNature is Siegwerk’s sustainable water-based ink range for paper and board applications that is formulated with natural components and thus partly replaces fossil carbon with biorenewable carbon, concretely contributing to defossilization in the sense of a circular economy. The ink range was one of four finalists nominated in the category ‘Renewable Materials’. 

 

The ink series incorporates up to 50 percent renewable carbon content. A combination of natural and conventional resins, from bio-sourced monomers, allows customers to quickly change to UniNature as no adjustments to the existing processes, such as speed and color matching, are required.  

 

It offers an ink stability and lower VOC content while also enabling high printing speeds on both coated and uncoated papers. UniNature is applicable for many paper and board applications including corrugated board boxes, trays and displays, fast food packaging, sacks and bags, as well as cups and wraps. It supports various printing applications whilst meeting the highest market and regulatory standards.  

 

The mission of the award is to illuminate the most important sustainable innovation across the packaging value chain. Therefore, winners are selected by an independent expert jury representing a cross-section of the international packaging value chain, including leading brand owners and retailers, sustainability organizations, waste management, academia and industry experts. This year’s competition covered awards in twelve different categories – seven for commercialized products and initiatives, including, for example Best Practice, Recyclable Packaging or Renewable Materials, as well as five new pre-commercialized categories dedicated to showcase emerging innovation that will hit the market during the next years.  

 

The winners of the pre-commercialized categories will be announced later in November. Here, Siegwerk is also nominated in the category ‘Driving the Circular Economy’ for the polycirQ deinking process for printed plastic films, which helps to prevent downcycling of valuable plastic resources.