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Cradle to Cradle™ children’s books won prizes in the “ecological and environmentally friendly” category at this year’s Golden Pixel Awards.

There were 199 submissions, 9 jury members, 13 winners, and 2 special recognitions in 15 categories at this year’s Golden Pixel Awards 2017 for innovative and progressive printing projects.

The Cradle to Cradle™ children’s books printed for the Kosmos publishing house were the winners of the “ecological and environmentally friendly” category. The Golden Pixel Award is an important competition for the German-speaking printing industry, and a good indicator of progress and excellence.

The jury was impressed by the educational content of the Kosmos children’s books as well as the printing method. “Children’s books are products that children handle from a very young age, so where better to start in educating younger generations about environmental awareness if not with children? The authors and illustrators present the animal world to children in a manner appropriate to the age of the reader. The children’s books are produced using materials which have a minimal environmental impact and can be completely recycled. We were impressed by the quality of the product as well as its environmentally sustainable nature,” said the jury, explaining its choice of winner.

Ernst Gugler, founder and managing director of gugler*, said: “We are delighted that our constant and tireless efforts to offer quality, innovation and sustainability have resulted this year in us winning an important award such as this for the tenth time. And we are especially delighted about our innovative partnership with the Kosmos publishing house in Germany without whom this pioneering project for healthy children’s books would not have been possible.”

The Kosmos children’s books are produced to the Cradle to Cradle™ standard, the world’s strictest ecological printing standard. That means all the substances in the paper, ink and glue which are used in each Kosmos children’s book produced by gugler* have been chemically analyzed, optimized, and finally certified. As a result, every book, without exception, is made using natural and healthy substances. This is particularly important for books which are handled by children. The books are free from substances which have been proven to be hazardous, as well as from substances which have not yet been shown to be hazardous. That means they can be unhesitatingly fed back into to the biological lifecycle, i.e. they can be composted. When the books are recycled with the waste paper we put in paper recycling bins, they do not produce the hazardous sludge which is usually created when standard colored inks are removed from paper. When Cradle to Cradle™ printed products are recycled, they produce an organic sludge which can be spread on the fields to fertilize the next generation of trees.

On 23-24 February 2017, members of the Print the Change Community came together for their community meeting on the premises of our new partner Vögeli AG in Langnau, Switzerland. We were welcomed cordially and felt very much at home. Besides voting by Skype, phone and e-mail, the objective of this meeting, which is held once or twice a year, is to get better acquainted with the partners and production facilities on site and to take time for joint projects. We were particularly impressed by the Swiss order and precision in the printshop. The joint roadmap with the most important development projects was discussed along with cooperative agreements with suppliers. Research work consequently focused on additional printing stock (cardboard, magazine paper), processing (bookbinding, foil lamination) and joint marketing activities.

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Roswitha Sandwieser, Sustainability Manager Gugler GmbH, Austria

Markus Vögeli, Owner Vögeli AG, Switzerland

Kasper Larsen, Chief Commercial Officer KLS PurePrint A/S, Denmark

Gitte Haar, Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer KLS PurePrint A/S, Denmark

Ernst Gugler, Managing Director, Gugler GmbH, Austria

Renato Vögeli, Owner Vögeli AG, Switzerland

Commitment and quality: this is what the two awards that gugler* received within only a few days of each other stand for: the TRIGOS 2016 for the “Best partnership – international commitment”, namely for the Cradle-to-Cradle™ community “PrintTheChange”. Only the day before the company had celebrated an award for the book “UM_BAU 28” that was printed in Melk as one of “the most beautiful German books” – a premiere.

The TRIGOS Austria winners were honoured with the coveted CSR Trophy during a festive gala on 14 June 2016 in the WU Mensa. Six companies from a total of 126 submissions and 29 nominees were awarded the TRIGOS, Austria’s most famous prize for corporate social responsibility, during a festive gala. gugler* received the TRIGOS for the PrintTheChange community. The jury’s reasoning: gugler* cooperates with the Danish printers KLS Grafisk Hus, as well as EPEA internationale Umweltforschung GmbH and the Vugge til Vugge ApS Research Institute. The Print the Change community helps promote Cradle to Cradle™ printing in Europe.

Knud Erik Larsen and Kasper Larsen from the Danish printers KLSPurePrint A/S are print pioneers along with gugler*: “Our Cradle-to-Cradle™-certified printed products are our contribution to leaving future generations a world with fewer hazardous chemicals and less waste. Eliminating these hazardous substances from our production process makes sense for all: for us, our customers and everyone else in the world.”

One of the most beautiful German books comes from Melk

“UM-BAU 28. Das Geschäft mit der Stadt. Zum Verhältnis von Ökonomie, Architektur und Stadtplanung” from the Swiss publishers Birkhäuser Verlag is one of the most beautiful German books and was honoured in the field of reference books, academic books, non-fiction and textbooks. One of the reasons given for the decision was that the clever folding is so stimulating that: “you begin to play around with the folding mechanism and completely forget to read the book.”

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http://www.trigos.at/trigos/uebertrigos/gala
http://www.gugler.at/unternehmen/auszeichnungen/schoenste-deutsche-buecher.html

Ernst Gugler, CEO of the communication agency gugler*, together with Michael Landau, President of Caritas Austria. (Credit: TRIGOS/APA-Fotoservice/Tanzer)

Thread-stitching, special folding of the cover, type area, text types – UM_BAU 28 is simply beautiful!

gugler* print is the first Austrian printing company that has put the closed production cycle idea into practice. Ernst Gugler, CEO of the family-run business, explains: “Materials ae regarded as nutrients that circulate in permanent closed loops so that no waste is produced.” The complete production process in the printing works was analysed in 2009 and substitutes by other steps, or completely new processes steps were developed. Cradle to Cradle™-certified printed products from gugler* can thus be composted, burn or recycled to paper without harming humans or the environment.

Further inquiries:

Mag. Sandra Paweronschitz
PR and Communication
gugler* brand – digital – print
3390 Melk/Donau, Auf der Schön 2, Austria
T: +43 2752 500 50-237
M: +43 664 608 42-237
sandra.paweronschitz@gugler.at
www.gugler.at

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