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Ratti S.p.A. tasked a certification agency, Bureau Veritas, with validating the process of tra- ditional printing against inkjet printing and showing that using traditional printing is a choice that better respects the environment.
The analysis focused on the di erent environmental e ects of the two processes – inkjet technology versus screen printing – comparing their use of electrical energy, water and chemical products. The results demonstrated that traditional printing had a much lower en- vironmental impact. The validity of the results of the internal study3 were confirmed by its compliance with the standard ISO 14021:2016 on 15 December 2017.
Heritage and modernity: a pair of words that, in Ratti, look back over 70 years of history and merge into a patrimony that is driven, always, by the search for manufacturing excellence. A capital deriving from an aggregated knowledge of culture and craftsmanship that has made the company an undeniable point of reference in the art of printing.
Looking to the future in a sustainable manner, for Ratti, means not abandoning the past but, instead, continuing to build on it and invest in it, and to be able to o er a high-quality product, with unmistakably unique features, to a multifaceted and demanding customer.
At Ratti, the classic and the modern are intertwined, giving life to a fabric born out of rese- arch, talent and, most of all, people, brought together in a common journey that has not yet reached the finishing line but has covered only a small part of the undertaking.
Never was Leo Longanesi’s dictum more appropriate: “The modern becomes old, the old comes back into fashion”.
At Ratti, the classic and the modern are intertwined,
giving life to a fabric born out of research, talent and, most
of all, people, brought together
in a shared journey that has not yet reached the finishing line but has covered only a small part of the undertaking
RATTI GROUP | SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017
Traditional printing versus Inkjet
ENERGY SAVING (TOE/m)
SILK -19%
COTTON - 33%
VISCOSE - 47%
WATER SAVING (l/m)
4%
34%
- 9%
CHEMICAL PRODUCTS SAVING (g/m)
-40%
- 39%
- 48%
3 – Source: Internal study commissioned to an independent body, 2017
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