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Maximum Attractiveness with Minimal Material Use

Reduction and quality are the future: Through the targeted usage of carefully tested raw materials, innovative technologies and reduced material use, we are taking the first steps towards more environmentally friendly production. With our Slim product portfolio, we are launching a revolutionary offensive to actually reduce waste when embellishing labels and printed products. As usual, you benefit from exclusive attractiveness and performance reliability while at the same time reducing material use and your carbon footprint.

KPS slim 2.0: Less PET, more sustainable finishing

Convincing Sustainability Concept

Four Pillars for a Sustainable Foundation

Visualization of a KURZ transfer coating: ultra-fine layer structure

Reduced Material Input

With a 0.02 µm aluminum layer, we offer an exceptionally thin surface finishing compared to other decoration processes. We have also largely reduced the thickness of our substrate material to 10 µm for hot stamping qualities and even to 6 µm for cold transfer products. This means that we have converted almost our entire product portfolio in terms of resource efficiency.

Safe and environmentally friendly ingredients of KURZ transfer finishes

Safe Raw Materials

KURZ transfer decorations meet all the requirements of the REACH regulation. As a matter of principle, we do not use any SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) substances on the candidate list in our manufacturing.

REACH

KURZ cold transfer module DISTORUN®

Energy-Efficient Application

For example, we only consume approx. 15 W/m2 with our dry, emission-free cold transfer process. The exhaust air generated during the application of the varnish is collected and fed back into our energy cycle via heat recovery.

Recycled PET pellets from the KURZ recycling plant

PET Recycling

We also give PET carrier residues a second chance and process them with our RECOSYS® 2.0 recycling process into a high-quality raw material that can be fed directly back into the production cycle: RECOSYS® rPET.

Recycling with RECOSYS® 2.0: The Next Step Towards a Circular Economy

To bring our high-quality surface refinements safely to the processor, we need a PET carrier material. However, since the conservation of resources plays a key role in our sustainability strategy, we use thinner carriers of 6 - 10 µm - depending on the transfer product. This reduces the waste you generate by up to 50% if you opt for our thinnest carriers.
 

And we have also found an optimal, environmentally friendly solution for these residues: Our innovative take-back and recycling system RECOSYS® 2.0. This is how we recover the valuable raw material rPET from used carriers.

RECOSYS® rPET is ideally suited as a raw material for a variety of everyday products. Let's take the next logical step together towards a closed-loop circular economy.

Become Part of Our RECOSYS® 2.0 Sustainability Initiative

Reducing your carbon footprint is easy with KURZ. Become part of the RECOSYS® 2.0 family and instantly reduce your Scope 3 emissions. This will make your products even more attractive to your customers.
 

This Is How It Works:

  1. Ask your personal customer advisor or check our open product catalog for our RECOSYS® 2.0 range
  2. Apply transfer finishing to your product (or have it done): As hot stamping, cold transfer, or digital metallization
  3. Collect used PET film carriers and prepare them for collection by KURZ
  4. Receive a certificate of participation & pass on your sustainable added value to your customers


After collection, we feed your used PET carrier material directly into our recycling process. In doing so, we optimize the recyclate properties and create a new raw material: rPET. This can be used, for example, in the form of recycled fibers or yarn for the production of technical textiles and thus be returned to the material cycle.

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