NCR’s receipt paper gets environmental stamp of approval
LONDON – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) has had its paper used in its thermal receipt rolls certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), providing an additional reassurance to retailers, banks, healthcare and travel companies of its environmental and social credentials.
Products carrying the FSC logo are assessed by independent auditors to guarantee they contain wood or pulp from forests which are managed in a sustainable way. The trees used to produce the NCR receipt rolls are from forests that meet the highest environmental and social management criteria. This not only helps the environment but ensures the long-term supply of the timber and the livelihoods of people working in the forestry industry.
Thermal paper rolls are used in a wide range of sectors to provide consumers with receipts that provide a ‘proof of purchase’ or useful information. This includes everything from vouchers and lottery tickets in retail to account balance statements via bank ATMs and boarding passes in the airline industry. Beyond this a wide range of self-service kiosks are increasingly being used in sectors as diverse as libraries to healthcare facilities.
Simon McCouaig, vice president, Europe, for NCR Consumables commented, “NCR is constantly investing in innovative new products to help its customers reduce their waste and be more environmentally friendly. The certification of our thermal paper by the Forest Stewardship Council underlines the steps we are taking to protect the world’s forests for the future with every receipt that our customers print.”
The new product range is available in the UK and is part of NCR’s Consumables Green Programme. NCR recently launched the industry’s first two-sided thermal receipt printer, the NCR RealPOS Two-Sided Thermal (2ST) Printer, which uses up to 45 percent less paper. It has been designed with dual print heads to print simultaneously on both sides of the specially coated FSC certified thermal paper.
NCR believes the use of two-sided printing will move rapidly beyond the store checkout to paper applications in other sectors such as banking, events, ticketing, gaming and self-service kiosks. Its two-sided technology has also been used to develop innovative label products such as the 2ST label, a label and receipt in one, which can be used by courier or logistics companies to avoid the need to have a plastic wallet to seal in the postal receipt/invoice behind the address label. This creates a huge amount of additional waste and makes it difficult to recycle the cardboard.
Charles Thwaites, executive director of FSC UK, commented: “FSC relies very heavily on progressive companies like NCR to take the trouble to identify new opportunities to use FSC certified materials wherever they are practical. Till roll paper is a fine example of a use that may initially appear small, but which actually has a greater beneficial impact on the world’s forests than many people would first think.”
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