When 42% PCF Coverage Starts Showing Up in Tenders, What Actually Changes?
The moment PCF becomes a required submission, labels and packaging shift from print price to material choice and data quality. Where will unquoted work-hours pile up?
Plate vendors have started saying out loud that “detailed PCF” and “standardised sustainability data” are customer value—not a nice-to-have. In Europe, the container for that data moved first: the infrastructure to submit and reference product information. Tender conditions for labels and packaging are quietly reshaping who carries the prepress burden—and who gets paid for it.
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PCF (Product Carbon Footprint) reporting is moving from “bonus points if you can do it” to something closer to a prerequisite for bids. When that happens, labels and packaging stop being won at the press.
XSYS, in a press release announcing it received a CDP assessment, listed what customers want as “standardised sustainability data” and a “detailed product carbon footprint (PCF).” It was explicit: value is not only plate performance or pri…
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