ECONANO® CO2 Reducing Labels

SATO has announced the release of its new ECONANO^® series of labels; labels that absorb and reduce the CO₂ that is released into the atmosphere when labels are incinerated.

This technology is made possible through a special CO₂ absorbent being added to the label’s adhesive. This absorbent reduces the amount of CO₂ released at the point of incineration by over 20% compared with conventional labels. Moreover, by combining ECONANO^® technology with SATO’s NONSEPA^® linerless label series, it is possible to achieve an approximate 50% reduction in CO₂ emissions at the time of incineration.

ECONANO^® was developed by SATO Group in collaboration with Professor Masahiko Abe of the Tokyo University of Science, and the University’s venture company, ACTiiVE.

“Reducing carbon emissions is a challenge for all businesses today,” said Etsuo Fujii, President of SATO CORPORATION. “But the cutting-edge technology SATO employs in its ECONANO^® series labels offers our customers a helping-hand in achieving their environmental targets, and provides them with solutions beneficial to all levels of consumer goods product identification and supply chain labeling."