Colbert Packaging uses offset and flexo printing to support its customers in the folding carton market.

By Sue Busch

If there's one word at work on multiple levels at folding carton, rigid box, and paperboard specialty product converter Colbert Packaging, it's sustainability. The term's environmental angle is just the start for this Lake Forest, Ill.-based converter, which recycles 6,700 tons of scrap annually, and has held Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) and Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) chain of custody certifications since 2010, which assure responsible paperboard sources. Moreover, Colbert was honored in 2007 with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Award for its BlisterGuard® and EnviroGuard™ packages, designed as paperboard-oriented alternatives to plastic clamshell packages.