UPM Raflatac
 

Comprehensive, credible and actionable

Reduce the carbon footprint of packaging with our labels

Are you passionate about understanding and reducing the carbon footprint of packaging? Are you looking for labels that support your efforts? You've come to the right place. Label Life by UPM Raflatac is a pioneering life cycle assessment service designed to support you on your journey to more sustainable packaging.

Label Life helps you make informed and environmentally responsible decisions by providing essential LCA metrics cradle-to-grave on the sustainability of UPM Raflatac's products. You will receive product passport prototypes (PPPs), that offer an array of metrics, from carbon footprint and water consumption to the 16 indicators recommended by the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) guide. PPPs are available for the majority of our product portfolio.

In addition to providing individual PPPs, Label Life facilitates decision-making through focused comparisons of three pivotal metrics: greenhouse gas emissions, energy demand, and water consumption. This distilled information empowers you to make the switch to more sustainable label products and chart a course toward sustainable packaging solutions with clarity and confidence.

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Comprehensive

In total 25 different indicators available in the PPPs, over the life cycle of the label broken down into the stages (1) cradle-to-gate, (2) transport to customer (3) printing (4) End of life impacts. The potential benefits for the next life cycle stage are also quantified separately.

Credible

The Label Life result generation process has passed through external validation. The review found the results appropriate for the intended goals and approved the quality checks put in place to ensure reliable results consistent with the relevant International Standards ISO 14040 and ISO 14044.

Actionable

LCA results that cover a broad range of metrics and have been validated are a good basis to act on. The metrics are provided to support our customers in assessing the carbon footprint of packaging and making a switch to more sustainable alternatives.

 
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How does Label Life by UPM Raflatac work?

Cradle to grave: Look beyond the label with Label Life

Label life provides you with a unique product passport prototype (PPP) – an environmental self-declaration for label products with a wide range of metrics that are broken down into life cycle stages: cradle-to-gate, transport-to-customer, printing, and end-of-life. This allows customers and brands to understand the environmental impact, e.g. carbon footprint of packaging materials throughout the value chain.

As our customer, the labelstock you purchase from us will be part of your Scope 3 emissions, emissions that are the result of activities not owned or controlled by your organization.  Quantifying your Scope 3 carbon emissions allows your business to make a conscious effort to reduce them. How? By providing credible and actionable data on the carbon footprint of labels, you can move from standard products to more sustainable alternatives. This helps reduce the carbon footprint of the entire packaging value chain, for you and your customers.

End users of labels often need to make decisions while navigating a very complex sustainability environment – regulations on recyclability, recycled content, and often a sustainability index that incorporates more than ‘just’ carbon emissions. In the European context, the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method has gained increasing traction as a recommended way to provide LCA information. It is mentioned in the Green Claims directive and Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. The PPPs with an extensive list of metrics including all 16 PEF indicators, and calculated within and beyond the UPM Raflatac factory gate, intend to fulfill these needs as far as data allows. And the evolution is on...

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„UPM Raflatac‘s guidance on how to reduce our Scope 3 emissions was invaluable in identifying optimization potentials. Being a small company, we rely on professional suppliers with sustainability expertise to support us in achieving our goals on climate change and UPM Raflatac provided just what we needed.“

- Thomas Nielsen, CEO, Ikonprint A/S

 
 
 

Your choice of label materials can have a significant impact on the sustainability and carbon footprint of packaging. UPM Raflatac is the first label material company committed to going Beyond Fossils – finding a way to reduce the use of fossil fuels in packaging. Our experts are continuously developing new products that enable you to reduce the carbon emissions and overall environmental impact of your product packaging.

Over its 10 years of service, Label Life has continuously evolved and advanced in offering customers and brands both cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave calculations. The validation by DEKRA confirms the credibility of UPM Raflatac’s LCA calculations and supports your company in making better, informed choices, bringing you closer to your sustainability goals.

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Why do product specific LCAs matter

 
 

How Label life is reducing the carbon footprint of labels

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