Some time ago Simon Clifford, president of Tekmar Technical Marketing of Santa Barbara, told a story about aerosol adhesive residue on the floor around a press in a textile print shop that he was visiting. It was so bad that the shop’s resident Golden Lab lay down to rest under the press and then could not get up […]
Entries Tagged as 'Going green'
Want to go “green”? Consider your pallet adhesives.
March 19th, 2008
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Customers demanding “green”?
February 6th, 2008
If you are a textile screen printer and you have customers asking about “environmentally friendly”, “organic” or “green” garments and inks, you may just be interested in a presentation that a PolyOne executive of their Wilflex ink division recently gave.
He made the point that while people asked for “green” they could seldom explain what that meant. For instance, did they mean “organic”, […]
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GREENFARCE? by Michael Best
February 6th, 2008
Last Saturday morning I was ”greenmailed” at my favourite health food store. The whole operation had Greenfarce’s prints all over it.
The enthusiastic young eco-warrior at the cash register announced triumphantly that the store’s bagging had gone “green”. She gave me the choice of either paying 5 cents each for the previously free disposable plastic grocery bags or 99 cents for their new re-usable, recyclable, environmentally-friendly bag. “And […]
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