Monday, March 2, 2009

Environmentally-Friendly Label Printing...Reduce your carbon footprint.

Today, Southeastern Printing provides labels to leading companies, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Dr. Pepper, 7-UP, and others.

We produce multi-color labels on polypropylene or paper substrates with in-line film lamination, a highly specialized technology in which we excel. Southeastern's flexography lines feature Cyrel plating and today's most advanced Comco presses, achieving industry-leading makeready speeds with image detail and registration of exceptional quality.

Feeling environmentally challenged?
  • Your customers want green
  • You need to be green
  • We can help you become green

We can help you improve your brand name by improving your green image.

  • Surveys indicate your customer will choose eco-friendly products over non-sustainable items, given the same price.

Reduce your carbon footprint.

  • Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability with Green ink ®.
  • By placing the Green ink ® logo on your label, you’re displaying your environmental responsibility to your customers.

Your labels are produced by an all-encompassing, eco-friendly manufacturing process.

  • All-digital prepress operations
  • Computer-to-plate – eliminates film and chemical waste from our plate-making process
  • No solvents are used in our flexographic printing process
  • Only water-based inks are used to print our labels, and unused inks are recycled and used again
  • Anilox Roll Cleaner – non-toxic, reusable and sustainable
  • Auto Splicer – decreases downtime and waste material

Our commitment to recycling and reusing is demonstrated by the following:

  • All film trimmings are recycled (almost 900,000 pounds of film in 2007)
  • 100% of suppliers packaging is sent back to be reused, including pallets and their
  • component parts, including wood end boards, plastic core caps and aluminum braces
  • Old pallets are delivered to a company specializing in refurbishing them into new pallets
  • Dull titanium slitter blades are melted down to create new blades
  • Chemical drums and containers are sent back to the supplier to be reused
  • All boxes – including ink, plate and other materials – are returned to suppliers to be reused

Sustainability and carbon footprint are not just industry buzz words – they represent the corporate culture at Southeastern Printing. We are moving boldly forward with plant-wide initiatives that bring about real and measurable environmental change.

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