The 60 candidate innovations of category 1 have their dedicated exhibition in a new area in the heart of the show! 
 📍 Entrance Hall Ravel

1st SME in the Pays de la Loire region to be triple certified ISO 9001 (Quality) / ISO 14001 (Environment) / OHSAS 18001 (safety) since 2003.

– Integration of their own water treatment plant in order not to impact the municipal plant and our ecosystem (5200 m3 of treated water per year).

– Carbon footprint achieved (2432 tons of CO2 eq of which 80% is from our inputs)

– All investments integrate the environmental dimension from the specifications (e.g.: latest generation varnishing machine, digital printing and impact on ink consumption)

Low environmental impact for customers/applicators:

– Specialized since its origin in the field of UV curing polymers chemistry, with undeniable technical and aesthetic performances, ALTUS Coating anticipated the necessary energy savings in doing so: radiation replacing convection, thus strongly reducing consumption.

– ALTUS Coating has created its own environmental charter in 2019 to highlight the development of more sustainable solutions. This charter is based on 3 criteria:

*Products with a maximum of 10% volatile organic compounds

*Products with at least 10% of bio-based substances (ALTUS Coating prefers to use bio-sourced components from secondary materials in the food industry, avoiding the use of primary materials as much as possible)

*Products that can be dried under LED lamps

– In 2021, more than 40% of the projects have followed at least one criterion of the charter.

It will enable KURZ to cover around a quarter of its electricity requirements on site. And with the photovoltaic system, KURZ can save around 6,000 tons of CO2 per year.

But even further to the system in Sulzbach-Rosenberg KURZ installed their first solar system at the plant in Malaysia in parallel and are also in the process of commissioning a large cogeneration plant.