Promote product circularity, starting from choosing adhesives.

Nowadays, the significance of an innovative product has transcended the use of the latest cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence. Enterprises need to be driven by sustainable development goals to promote product innovation. For manufacturers, there are many opportunities to adopt innovative solutions that can save energy, conserve water, and extend product lifespan, thereby helping them fulfill their sustainable development commitments. However, changing a long-established manufacturing process can be a daunting task. If done wrongly, it will not only slow down the process of sustainable development but may even set it back. In addition, one of the greatest difficulties in doing this well lies in the fact that sustainability covers almost all aspects of a company's operations and product impacts, which often makes decision-makers not know where to start or what to do.

Meeting the Challenges of Achieving Circularity

UV glue With our experience of collaborating with manufacturers over the past century, many companies new to product circularity often first think of reducing post-consumption waste through recycling or composting programs. But as we work with them to embed circularity principles into their manufacturing processes, we learn together that there are many more environmentally friendly practices worth considering. The design of a product—from the extraction of the required raw materials to the waste generated after consumption—may account for 80% of its life cycle emissions. This provides an opportunity for innovation from the very beginning stages of product development. The enterprises we collaborate with are striving to fill these gaps by evaluating each stage of the product life cycle. For example, some of the steps taken by our clients are as follows:

Design Stage: UV glue Manufacturers are making their products lighter, smaller, longer-lasting, having less environmental impact, or being more recyclable.

Production Stage: Some enterprises have redesigned their production processes to reduce energy consumption and waste in factories and manufacturing facilities.

Post-consumption Recycling Stage: Companies have launched product recycling programs that allow consumers to conveniently return used products. One example is reducing the waste typically generated by bottle labeling in the manufacturing process. To address this challenge, linerless label technology has emerged—it can produce labels without liner paper or backing and is applied in various scenarios such as restaurant food and storage facility packaging, effectively reducing waste generation.