Avery Dennison and The Label Printers receive TLMI Environmental Award

Presented at the association’s recent annual meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, the Environmental Leadership Award program recognises TLMI member companies that have consistently demonstrated a commitment to progressive environmental practices across a range of areas including solid waste reduction, recycling, waste or energy recovery, the implementation of new clean technology and/or processes, and the implementation of an education program.

2013 was the 11^th year TLMI has presented Environmental Leadership Awards.

The Converter Award for Environmental Leadership was given to The Label Printers, and is the company’s second year in winning the award. TLMI said it has continued to work to reduce waste and energy consumption, and has established best practices that demonstrate an ongoing commitment to sustainability. This includes the “Go Green, Save Green and Earn Green” program.

Avery Dennison picked up the Supplier Award for Environmental Leadership due to its, ‘excellence in environmental stewardship…throughout their entire supply chain,’ TLMI said. It has improved material efficiencies by 24 percent since 2011 by utilizing Kaizen practices and has a corporate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015.

TLMI added that Avery Dennison has been a leader in responding to the issues of recycling PET products that contain pressure-sensitive labels and has developed a non-PVC product line that contains zero chlorine.

Both The Label Printers and Avery Dennison have also achieved TLMI’s LIFE certification, which is the only certification program tailored to the narrow web label and packaging industry.

Calvin Frost, TLMI Environmental Committee chairman, said: ‘Sustainability is a central issue in our marketplace and I applaud all the companies who submitted award entries for consideration this year.

‘Avery Dennison and The Label Printers have demonstrated ongoing leadership and excellence in environmental stewardship and I congratulate them both.’

Pictured: Darrell Hughes from Avery Dennison receiving the award from Calvin Frost