News UK and its printer Prinovis is live-trialling a switch from polywrapping its Sunday Times supplements and inserts. Limited initially to its South East distribution, paper bands will now be used to hold the material together. This follows an earlier move to using compostable wrap for newsstand copies.
The paper wrap option saw Prinovis and Sitma invest around £1 million and over a year of testing a prototype machine with samples. Prinovis now has two of its six Sitma polywrapping lines fitted with new banding modules enabling them to be used to wrap with polythene, compostable material, or paper banding offering the ultimate flexibility.
News UK retail director Neil Spencer commented: “Retailers and readers have responded overwhelmingly positively to our plastics pledge and this latest paper band innovation is an industry-leading effort. Our suppliers have put plastics at the centre of their sustainability drive, building on their work reducing emissions through efficiency drives and sourcing 100 per cent of paper from sustainable forest management systems.”
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