The packaging company Sonoco, Hartsville, South Carolina, has announced that its EcoTect premium grade of uncoated recycled board (URB) has become the first URB to be certified by the Rochester Institute of Technology to Hewlett-Packard (HP) Indigo print platform specifications.
Bill Hagen, Sonoco’s senior engineer/scientist, says printers with HP Indigo capabilities now have a certified uncoated recycled board option that is sustainable and functional as a result of this innovation.
Hagen adds, “Sonoco is committed to innovation in all areas of the company. When the market need was discovered, our team jumped on the opportunity. It took a little more than a year for us to create it, test it and achieve HP Indigo certification through the Rochester Institute of Technology. It is revolutionary and will allow for much more intricate, higher defined, less expensive, customized printing on a 100 percent recycled paperboard for folding carton applications.”
EcoTect products are manufactured at Sonoco’s facilities in Trent Valley, Ontario, and Hutchinson, Kansas.
Bill Hagen, Sonoco’s senior engineer/scientist, says printers with HP Indigo capabilities now have a certified uncoated recycled board option that is sustainable and functional as a result of this innovation.
Hagen adds, “Sonoco is committed to innovation in all areas of the company. When the market need was discovered, our team jumped on the opportunity. It took a little more than a year for us to create it, test it and achieve HP Indigo certification through the Rochester Institute of Technology. It is revolutionary and will allow for much more intricate, higher defined, less expensive, customized printing on a 100 percent recycled paperboard for folding carton applications.”
EcoTect products are manufactured at Sonoco’s facilities in Trent Valley, Ontario, and Hutchinson, Kansas.
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