To do the right thing from the beginning when designing, developing and choosing materials is an effective way of minimising the environmental impact and the costs. The most significant environmental aspects of a company are often its products. To focus on the products in the environmental work is in these cases, a pro-active and effective way for a company to decrease their overall environmental impact.

 

Eco Design strengthens your market position

Eco Design can contribute to a more sustainable production and consumption, which is a prerequisite for a long-term business. Eco Design and Design for Environment strengthen the market position for the producing company and create a high value for the end customer by a focus on the products and their benefit.

 

Eco Design is a work procedure for product development of new or modified products. The aim of Eco Design is to minimise the adverse environmental impacts form a product while the functionality or value of the product is retained or increased. In Eco Design the environment is given the same status as more traditional industrial benefits such as profit, functionality, aesthetics, image and overall quality. The concept of Eco Design includes the whole life cycle of products. Here the term product refers to both tangible and intangible products (services).

 

Innventia has described and recommended a work procedure for Eco Design in the printing industry. We have also developed industry-specific tools for Eco Design of printed products, i.e., a manual and a practical checklist. The manual gives an introduction to Eco Design and suggestions for the work procedure when designing and manufacturing printed products.

 

Innventia uses Eco Design principles such as eco-strategies when developing bio composites.