US converter enters TLMI’s LIFE program

US converter The Label Printers (TLP) has chosen TLMI’s Label Initiative For the Environment (LIFE) to guide the company’s ongoing efforts to become ‘greener’.  Director of human resources and TLP’s Illinois EPA compliance representative George Tommasi, the LIFE team leader, said: ‘We decided that we wanted to explore an environmental program for The Label Printers because we wanted to make our existing “green” efforts more structured, focused, and visible. We looked at investing in a number of different environmental programs. One of the main reasons we chose LIFE is because it is designed for label converters and we felt that we would get better results from a program that came from people who understood the printing industry – specifically label printing.’  

‘We need to look at what we have done to be a good environmental steward over the years, and then we can identify our LIFE goals, and how to accomplish and measure those goals. LIFE provides both a self audit and an external audit to help us identify areas that will allow us to reduce our environmental footprint, and lessen our environmental impact.’ TLMI has partnered with public health and safety company NSF International to build the external audit. 

The Label Printers, based in two facilities in Aurora, Illinois, was founded in 1967 and has customers in 25 countries around the world.