Addressing customers environmental concerns is important to us – minimising impact on the environment is an attitude, and it is our attitude.

NU-COAT cares about the environment and does everything it can to mitigate it's customers environmental concerns.

Environmental policies are nowadays often seen as ‘greenwashing’.

As a responsible and trustworthy manufacturer, we will not try to convince you that the industry of self-adhesive digitally printable and sign materials have no impact on the environment.

Instead, we can point out what we do to make a difference, not only in our philosophy, but our daily work and the processes we deploy – it is certainly not perfect for the planet, but the reality today is our industry cannot exist without PVC and oil based products.

UV-curing technology is more modern than the aqueous and solvent methods traditionally used in the Wide-Format industry.

Not requiring dilution, our adhesive is coated as a ‘solid’, which means:

  • No dilution
  • No solvents
  • No drying ovens
  • No post-production handling of chemicals or solvents
  • No VOC emissions (Volatile Organic Compounds)

NU-COAT’s compact coating line is only half the size of a tennis court so no need for long, high-energy consumption drying ovens.

NU-COAT's compact coating line is relatively small, as this photo shows, it does not require long, high energy consumption drying ovens so offers the smallest possible environmental footprint.

UV-curing at NU-COAT saves between 50%-65% of the energy, versus more traditional methods – this makes a major difference!

Also smaller machinery offers further environmental advantages, including:

  • Smaller premises require less heating and less lighting
  • Shorter production set-ups minimises raw material waste
ENGIE Renewable Electricity Certificate Q01026078. NU-COAT is commited to using greener energy, reducing its impact on the environment.

We have signed up with ENGIE who recognise our commitment to reducing our impact on the environment by using renewable green energy: download our certificate here.

Our approach from concept to delivery

Preserve resources

Despite no specific regulation concerning ozone generated during production, NU-COAT decided from the day one to use specific filters, in order to have no impact on the environment.

Local sourcing

Our raw materials suppliers and our coating facilities are both based in Europe, avoiding the shipment of tons of goods around the world, and supporting local economies.

Product developments

Where possible PVC-free and oil-free solutions are offered if they can provide a good technically capable alternative.

Selective materials

While most manufacturers use 100µ printable PVC films, we reduce PVC content by 20%-25% with thinner but equally opaque films without compromising print processing, cutting or handling.

Heating

The heat generated during our production process is, in part, captured and re-used within the NU-COAT building.

Attitude

Collectively staff constantly review products, processes and proceedures to add sustainability to the life-cycle of our products and to minimise waste in all departments.

Recycling

The packaging of our rolls is made of recycled cardboard whilst 40% of the material used for producing endcaps is recycled.

Raw material and its packaging remnants are returned to the suppliers for reuse.

Non-coated PVC gets back into PVC products production at the suppliers.

Drums used for raw adhesive are processed through a local metal-recycling plant.

If you have any questions about NU-COAT’s products or our environmental impact during manufacturing you can contact us here:
T: +44 (0)1495 271341
E: sales@nu-coat.com