| Printing Industry |
Green Press Initiative | The mission of Green Press Initiative is to work with book and newspaper industry stakeholders to conserve natural resources, preserve endangered forests, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize impact on indigenous communities. |
Print City | A unique integrated cross-industry alliance that fosters cooperation across the graphic arts value chain. Its goal is to help respond to some of the major ongoing challenges facing the industry. These include: - Restructuring of printing with the multimedia market
- Market fragmentation
- Challenges and opportunities of digital technologies
- Optimizing process productivity and quality
- Providing added value to products and services
- Expanding business opportunities
- Improving professional competencies and skills
PrintCity's primary role is to forge links over the entire value chain to achieve goals that one company alone, however large, cannot accomplish. PrintCity's activities show clearly how printing can be more effective as a value-adding media. |
| The world's largest graphic arts trade association representing an industry with approximately one million employees. It serves the interests of more than 10,000 member companies. Printing Industries of America, along with its affiliates, delivers products and services that enhance the growth, efficiency, and profitability of its members and the industry through advocacy, education, research, and technical information. |
Sustainable Green Printing Partnership | The mission of Sustainable Green Printing Partnership is to encourage and promote participation in the worldwide movement to reduce environmental impact and increase social responsibility of the print and graphic communications industry through sustainable green printing practices. |
The Print Council | A business development alliance formed by leaders in the graphic arts industry whose goal is to influence and promote the greater use of print media. Through education, awareness, market development, advocacy and research, The Print Council will serve the industry to develop, maintain, and increase the market for printed goods. In addition, the Council will work closely with industry associations, ongoing initiatives, and relevant user groups that share common goals. |
| Waterless Printing Association | Founded in 1993 to serve the needs of its worldwide membership. The waterless printing process ranks as one of the most significant printing innovations in the past 500 years. Its future success is assured because, like all other successful printing inventions, its fundamental benefits are increased productivity and improved quality. These benfits will serve to propel the process as a viable printing technique well into the future. |
| Sustainable Design |
| AIGA Center for Sustainable Design | Dedicated to providing designers with practical information, including case studies, news articles, discourse and resources, relevant to sustainable business practice. It examines sustainability from a wide range of perspectives: from the nuts and bolts of daily studio life to the larger marketplace dynamics and global concerns within which designers operate. The AIGA Center for Sustainable Design's objective is to encourage and support designers as they incorporate sustainable thinking into their professional lives. |
Design by Nature | Design by Nature is a resource established to inspire, educate and empower Australian graphic designers to work towards more environmentally sustainable practices. |
| Environmental |
| Printers' National Environmental Assistance Center | A unique, highly successful and effective partnership between industry, government, and university technical assistance providers serving those who interact with one of the largest manufacturing industries in the United States, North America, and the world. The PNEAC mission is to assist regulatory agencies and technical assistance providers by delivering current, reliable environmental compliance and pollution prevention information to printers, publishers, and packagers. |
| United States Environmental Protection Agency | Leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. The mission of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, the EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. |
| Substrates and Paper |
| Abundant Forests Alliance | A group with many goals but one mission - to reassure you that there will always be plenty of forests. We are the people who harvest trees and turn them into the wood and paper products we all need and enjoy (homes, furniture, the Sunday comics, and many more). |
| American Forest & Paper Association | The national trade association of the forest products industry and advances public policies that promote a strong and sustainable U.S. forest products industry in the global marketplace. |
Conservatree | Conservatree is a nonprofit catalyst and advocate for ecologically sustainable paper markets, combining environmental commitment with paper industry and technical savvy. |
Forest Stewardship Council | An independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, established to promote the responsible management of the world's forests. |
Green Press Initiative | The mission of Green Press Initiative is to work with book and newspaper industry stakeholders to conserve natural resources, preserve endangered forests, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize impact on indigenous communities. |
| Paper Industry Association Council | The Paper Industry Association Council (PIAC) is comprised of 25 allied paper product associations representing the major manufacturers and providers of paper based communications and packaging products. PIAC functions as an information-sharing body as well as an umbrella organization for issue-based advocacy, grassroots, and coalition building. |
| Sustainable Forestry Initiative | A fully independent, charitable organization dedicated to promoting sustainable forest management. We work with conservation groups, local communities, resource professionals, landowners, and countless other organizations and individuals who share our passion for responsible forest management. |
| Paper Suppliers |
International Paper
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Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc.
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Monadnock
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| Recycling Centers |
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Earth911.com
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International Paper
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TIA E-cycling Central
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