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Companies and their customers set increasing store by using natural resources responsibly and assessing which impact products and processes have on consumers and the environment.

Hungarian poultry processor Her-Csi-Hús Kft. faced a double-edged challenge with its latest premium-line launch. In addition to implementing ambitious animal welfare and quality criteria effectively, the Bo-Csi Happy Chicken products had to achieve vital differentiation and credibility in consumers’ eyes.

In an international context marked by a decrease in fossil resources and an increase in oil price, the development of materials made from renewable resources becomes the main challenge of sustainable development. Furthermore, today’s environmentally conscious consumers and brand owners are seeking out eco‐friendly products, such as biodegradable plastics.

M-real Consumer Packaging, supplier of high quality folding boxboards, is showing its Carta range of lightweight and sustainable boards developed especially for luxury packaging such as beautycare, high quality consumer goods and confectionery.

Pregis Corp.’s Hexacomb® products have met the fiber-sourcing certification standards set by the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®). Pregis Hexacomb has exceeded the “two-thirds” fiber sourcing standard requirements by sourcing 95% of its paper from SFI companies that are certified under the organization’s procurements standards. The other 5% are from non controversial sources.

French Retailer Casino Group was honored during drupa 2008, by DuPont Packaging Graphics with their New Horizons Award for Embracing Sustainability.

The 5th edition of the PCD congress-exhibition (Perfumes, Cosmetics & Design) will address the issues of sustainable development and respect for the environment in packaging.

Lumson, a manufacturer of cosmetic packaging, was formally recognized for its' eco-sustainable philosophy by obtaining an Ecocert certification.

Piotr Kwiecien and Michel Volters of Sabic explain how business in Poland is going. It is one of the fastest growing markets for polyolefins in various applications.

Sleever International, a provider of sleeving solutions globally, will be at the Rosupack in Moscow with the latest in sleeving technology, including the solutions dedicated to sustainable development.

The weekend prior to Drupa, Erwin Oberhänsli, a top manager at Swiss printer Feldegg in Zollikerberg, was presented with an Individual Award by the national Environmental Foundation. Oberhänsli won the award, which is conferred annually, for his longstanding commitment to sustainable print production.

Innovia Films’ biodegradable packaging material, NatureFlex™, is helping a raw snack food company – Superfood Snacks - to fulfill its ideal for natural eco-friendly sustainable bags to package their first product, Chocolate Goji Treats. They are a synergistically balanced fusion of some of the world’s most nutritious ancient superfoods and speciality ingredients, including Goji berries, Raw Cacao, Maca Root and sundried Vanilla Bean.

Monadnock Paper Mills announces new Envi by Monadnock, a premium, high quality, line of environmental packaging grades designed for folding boxes, luxury shopping bags, set-up boxes, tubes, price tickets, and hang tags.

A formal definition of sustainable packaging is needed to provide a common platform of understanding against which the packaging supply chain can measure its efforts. This was the objective of the Definition of Sustainable Packaging released in October 2005 by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (www.sustainablepackaging.org). Drawing on fundamental eco-efficiency concepts and sustainability principles articulated by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their book, "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things," the definition outlines a framework for sustainability in the context of packaging and its related materials systems.