Sustainability
PRINTING United Alliance recognizes that today’s global marketplace requires companies to address the needs of the environmental, social, and economic systems in which they operate, as well as the strong consumer demand for more sustainable products. A business strategy focusing on sustainability can add brand value, meet customer demands, increase efficiency, reduce costs, attract valuable talent, improve your environmental footprint, and create new business opportunities. The printing industry is committed to responsibly providing for future generations. Join us on the journey.
Sustainability Resources for Promotional Products
The Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), a strategic partner of PRINTING United Alliance, serves a network of 25,000 suppliers, distributors and decorators in the $26.6 billion promotional products industry, offering a technology platform that manages the industry’s supply chain, as well as producing digital and print content, live events and educational programs.
ASI Media’s award-winning Promo for the Planet page is an educational resource hub for the promotional products industry. Supported by an eight-person advisory board of sustainability leaders, the page is packed with news, trends and ideas to help promo distributors and suppliers build a more sustainable and socially responsible industry. The page also features the “Do-Gooders Directory,” an extensive and regularly updated list of the giveback programs, corporate social responsibility initiatives and sustainability certifications that suppliers and distributors have.
The Three Pillars of Sustainability
Encouraging the incorporation of practices that benefit your triple bottom line, people, planet, and profit, through using innovative manufacturing methods, systems, and materials that gear toward a circular economy is the backbone of PRINTING United Alliance’s sustainability efforts. Learn more about the 3Ps.
PEOPLE: Social Impact
Embracing the diversity of background, perspective, culture, and experience allows a company to grow and prosper. We have been working to promote diversity, inclusion, and equitable opportunity at all levels of the organization, system, and value chain. We provide human relations, safety and health expertise, to improve working conditions, workplace culture, and community engagement on a national scale.
PLANET: Environmental Impact
Environmental sustainability is embedded in our work. The foundation of any environmental sustainability program is compliance with environmental regulations. Building on this foundation, actions addressing sustainability include a focus on energy efficiency, using clean energy, solid and hazardous waste reduction, water conservation, reducing air pollution emissions, improving facilities support functions, and improving the area outside the facility. Sustainability now extends to the supply chain and choices made for transportation of finished goods.
PROFIT: Economic Impact
The U.S. printing industry is valued at $74.4 million and is the 16th largest manufacturing industry in America. The industry provides well-paying jobs, essential products for daily living, and an excellent return on investment. Our industry continues to innovate in product designs and manufacturing processes in a circular manner realizing greater financial and environmental value.