Carbon Cold - Power Reduction by 75%

With all companies and more importantly, their customers now aware of their “Carbon Footprint” the necessity to reduce power consumption has become more than just about economic savings for a business.

The “Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit” held in May 2007 in London with participants’ from Boots and Diageo, and many others, discussed methods of consumer companies examining and reducing the power consumption of their total supply chain. This will impact on the packaging industry in due time.

Companies can steal a march on this process by switching from hot stamping to cold foil application and reduce costs at the same time.

A spokesman for the Carbon Trust said “In a world where the consumer is king and carbon is the new currency, companies that move first to develop low carbon products have much to gain”.

The Foiltone cold foil application process, when compared to traditional hot foiling, has a power requirement to foil a given sheet that is reduced by as much as 75% This is calculated from the facts that during operation the Foiltone unit consumes less than half of the power of a similar sized hot foil stamping platen and runs at twice the speed. Jobs are therefore completed in half the time.