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duction and decoration - includ- year, the importance of providing compromising on high decora-
ing batch optimisation, melting eco-friendly, sustainable decora- tion quality. Not only. The ink
process, and all the technologies tion is equally important. Here’s will contribute towards avoiding
used at the Hot and Cold End of why an innovative Recycled Ink, rubber waste as well.
glass production. Indeed ongoing namely the eco-friendly powder
investments in sustainable tech- coating Quali Glass Coat 2.0, as QUALI GLASS COAT 2.0
nologies and processes remains well as Tigital, are among the lat- Quali Glass Coat 2.0 is a spe-
a solidly-integrated part of the est developments in decoration. cial powder-coating technique
group’s CSR strategy - all with which, at very high mechani-
a view to reducing CO emis- RECYCLED INK cal resistance, achieves an infi-
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sions 50 percent by 2030 while In partnership with a British nite variety of stunning effects.
becoming CO neutral by 2050. supplier, Stoelzle’s innovation Moreover, the process is defi-
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As more than 370 million bottles team has developed a brand new nitely more sustainable and eco-
are decorated by Stoelzle every eco-friendly black-screen print- friendly than standard lacquer-
ing ink. The Recovered Carbon ing with liquid colours. Here the
Black — as basis of the compa- powder coating uses solvent-free
ny’s new inks — is derived 100 colours while helping to save
percent from end-of-life tyres. in raw material by producing
This recycled ink is available in zero-waste colour. To list the
dark black (matt and shiny) as main advantages of this new
well as different shades of grey technique: there’s 77 percent
- and more colours besides (red less CO emissions as compared
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& white) will shortly be devel- with conventional spraying, zero
oped from other waste materials. VOC release (Volatile Organic
Given that decoration contributes Compounds) and lower costs in
circa 15 percent to a bottle’s CO terms of decoration.
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footprint, screen printing deco- A new radiating glass type,
ration with recycled ink helps NRG 4.0, is a phosphorescent
to significantly reduce it without glass decoration. This special
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