INDIANAPOLIS, IN –May 6, 2018 –Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) is proud to announce the recipient of the 2018 Sustainability Excellence Award is Heritage Envelopes Ltd for PackMail, an alternative packing solution for envelopes. This award is given to companies for exceptional efforts in developing innovative, processes, products and management approaches that have had a positive impact on the three mainstays of sustainability – people, planet and profit.
Joining in 2015, Heritage Envelopes Ltd is one of FTA’s international members from the United Kingdom and is based in Blackburn, Lancashire. Although the idea of PackMail was born several years ago, it was just last year that Heritage had earned an honorable mention for this very same solution at the 2017 Sustainable Excellence Awards in Phoenix, AZ.
PackMail is “boxless” packaging for shipping and storing envelopes to mail in-serting companies by bounding product between two rigid cardboard ends with film wrap. This design keeps envelopes flat and safe from damage, reduces the environmental footprint, cuts-back on the amount of waste from packaging, storing, handling, and lowers transportation, CO2 output and fuel consumption.
Already, approximately 750 million envelopes have shipped using this new solution in the U.K. and Heritage plans to increase production by 50 percent in 2018. Expansion into new territory like the U.S. is already in the works. It is currently sourcing engineering and packaging materials partners in the U.S. to keep the environmental footprint to a minimum, while supporting the American manufacturing industry.
Additional information about this exceptional company and its sustainably excellent product can be found in the May issue of FLEXO Magazine.
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About FTA: Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), chartered in 1958, is a professional society dedicated to bringing all members of the flexographic printing community—printers, suppliers, consumer product companies, institutions, prepress houses and others—together by providing opportunities for the free exchange of technical ideas and discussion of mutual concerns. It is a proponent of maintaining and advancing quality standards and includes 1,650 member sites that represent more than 1,400 companies and 35,000 individuals. Foundation of FTA, founded in 1974, is the educational arm of FTA and is dedicated to supporting and advancing the flexographic printing industry.