Intergraf’s Sustainability Initiatives

Intergraf is the European printing industry association, representing employers in the graphical sector across 21 countries. It is best known in the banknote community for its biennial conference Currency+Identity and for its certification scheme for security printers. But it provides a range of services and tools for the broader print industry , two of which have relevance to banknote printers.

For example, in its role of providing industry best practices and facilitating the sharing of information among its members, Intergraf has produced a sector base standard in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for the (commercial) print industry. This was presented at the Cash Sustainability Forum by Boštjan Kolar, Security and Compliance Officer at Cetis, the Slovenian secure identity solutions provider, and has useful implications for all security printers.

Part of this initiative involves ClimateCalc, a tool that uses company and supplier specific data and draws from internationally recognised databases to calculate emissions.