Diamond Packaging Launches Green Website

Diamond Packaging recently announced the launch of a new green website to coincide with the introduction of their Diamond greenbox initiative, the company’s commitment to research, design, and implement packaging solutions that are innovative and sustainable.

Diamond’s new green website is designed with companies and consumers in mind. It is meant to inform visitors about the company’s green initiative and provide a comprehensive and educational insight into the topic of sustainability and sustainable packaging.

“Sustainability is a very broad and complex subject with implications that affect all aspects of the supply chain,” said Dennis Bacchetta, Director of Marketing. “Our goal is to bring some clarity to topics such as package design and manufacturing, recycling, and energy requirements.”

The site features individual sections describing the core of Diamond’s green initiative – designs, materials, and methods – as well as separate sections dedicated to sustainability, wind energy, and education.

The extensive educational section features sustainability-related definitions, acronyms, and links to relevant articles and organizations.

Updated RSS news feeds, videos, and an environmental calculator all contribute to delivering a richer user experience. ›› more

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Diamond Packaging continues their annual tradition of producing a corporate calendar, a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers. Diamond set out to create a promotional piece that illustrates many of Diamond's internal capabilities, including creative design, stochastic printing, spot coating, foil stamping, and embossing.

This year's calendar introduces the Diamond greenbox initiative – our commitment to packaging solutions that are innovative and sustainable. Diamond set out to minimize paperboard and energy usage, yet still retain the popular three-month design.

By thinking creatively Diamond was able to minimize paperboard and energy usage, yet still retain the popular three-month design. The overall presentation imparts unusual depth and distinction through innovative structural design, material selection, spot coating, foil stamping, and multi-level embossing.

Diamond reduced the overall calendar weight, which offered the most significant opportunity to conserve raw materials and energy, reduce greenhouse gases, and minimize discards. ›› more

Stock Selection - pt 2
by FSEA

When designing a piece with embossing, whether single-
or multi-level, the type of stock selected is critical to ensure a clean impression. This segment is the second in a two-part series that will discuss why paper selection is so important to the overall success of the job when utilizing embossing as your design medium.

Stock Suitability

Many stock characteristics such as dry vs. coated, recycled vs. virgin, and textured vs. smooth can impact how an embossed image
will look on the finished piece. Coated stocks have a tendency to crack when embossed, although with proper preplanning and communication with your diemaker and foil stamper, this challenge can be avoided. Textured stocks with embedded patterns such
as linens, wovens, and ribs will actually flatten out where the image has been embossed. ›› more

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