sun chemical&rsquos sustainability leadership to be featured on fox business networkparsippany, n.j., usa &ndash june 19, 2013 &ndash sun chemical&rsquos innovative leadership in sustainable packaging solutions will be featured on fox business news in an upcoming segment of its show called &ldquothe green room&rdquo at 11am est on june 22, 2013.filmed in merrill, wis. at the interflex group, a flexible package printer and sun chemical customer, the episode shows how sun chemical&rsquos sunbar® oxygen barrier coatings can help brand owners and converters with an ecofriendly solution that lightweights their packaging.designed to enable lightweighting of packaging by removing one layer from packaging as well as offering improved laminate flexibility, sunbar oxygen barrier coatings provide a smooth, homogenous, pinholefree layer that can be easily overprinted with inks and can be laminated to a variety of secondary films.sunbar coatings are costeffective, recyclable, biodegradable and pressready, allowing for lighterweight packaging, a reduced carbon footprint, and easy application with few changes to current equipment. they also offer a reliable and environmentallyfriendly alternative to polyvinylidene chloride pvdc.&ldquoat sun chemical, we consider it our responsibility to raise awareness of environmental issues to our customers,&rdquo said russell schwartz, chief technology officer, sun chemical. &ldquowe strive to develop solutions that will help our customers produce less waste and carbon dioxide, while at the same time improving the efficiency of their operations. sunbar barrier coatings are just one example of the efforts we do to improve the ecoefficiency of our customers.&rdquoin addition to developing and offering products that can help lower a customer&rsquos carbon footprint, sun chemical also strives to improve its own carbon footprint.annually, sun chemical publishes its corporate sustainability report which shows data collected every year since 2005 from approximately 170 sun chemical sites in over 25 countries. the key sustainability metrics measured in the data include energy consumptionconservation at production and nonproduction sites, the energy carbon footprint at the production sites, process waste reduction, water consumption, materials safety, and employee safety.providing a report that shows the ongoing management and monitoring of key sustainability metrics is an important part of sun chemical&rsquos sustainability policy.&ldquoour sustainability policy pushes us as a company to improve the ecoefficiency of our processes and products,&rdquo said gary andrzejewski, sun chemical&rsquos corporate vice president of environmental affairs. &ldquoour r&d efforts are a pivotal part of this process as we provide our customers with solutions that will be both ecofriendly and save them money. these datadriven sustainability reports have played a key role in helping our customers achieve many of their ecoefficiency goals.&rdquoall of sun chemical&rsquos sustainability reports can be requested online at www.sunchemical.comsustainability. customers in the u.s. can also calculate the initial carbon footprint for their facility operations by visiting www.sunchemical.comsuncare.shortly following its air date on saturday, june 22nd at 11am on fox business network, &ldquothe green room&rdquo episode hosted by john holden will be posted on sun chemical&rsquos website at www.sunchemical.com.about sun chemicalsun chemical, a member of the dic group, is the world&39s largest producer of printing inks and pigments and a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. with annual sales of more than 3.5 billion, sun chemical has over 8,000 employees supporting customers around the world.sun chemical corporation is a subsidiary of sun chemical group coöperatief u.a., the netherlands, and is headquartered in parsippany, new jersey, u.s.a. for more information, please visit our web site at www.sunchemical.com.
