Green Initiative Program
We require our suppliers to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability by providing recycled components for our products and production process:
Raw Materials
- Paper vendors committed to national certification and registration processes
- Wire for stitching is made of 75% recycled materials
- Cores for RegistRolls is 80% recycled plastic
- Cartons for all products are produced from 29 - 35% of recycled post-consumer materials
- Chipboard for GuestCheck backers are made up of 94% of recycled post-consumer waste
- Pallets are built from 81% recycled materials
- Printer cartridge usage of environmentally friendly materials for production provides a healthier, more sustainable workplace
- Soy-based inks
- Low Temperature Hot Melt Glue reduces required temperatures 100° and generates no noxious odors
- Low Energy Packaging Film reduces oven temps by 10% and generates more yield per roll
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Industrial wipers are laundered and reused
Facilities
- Focus on higher efficiency infrastructure reduces our overall carbon footprint by 3% and our electrical usage by 16%
- Recycling efforts reduce our waste removal by 29%
- Cleaning solvents with no hazardous materials
- Low-energy fluorescent lighting illuminates our factory and warehouse
- Automated, high-efficiency HVAC systems heat and cool our workspace
- Re-captured air from compressors heats our warehouse space
- Outdated, inefficient press motors replaced with state of the-art, high-efficiency electrical technology
Certifications and Memberships
- Certified "PIM Great Printer" by the Printing Industry of Minnesota
- Xcel Energy's Efficiency Partner 2009 status.
- Members of FSC (Forest Steward Council)
- SFI Certified (Sustainable Forest Industry)

