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Home About Us Environmental SustainabilityLaundry, Print, Signage, and Filter Operations

Green Laundry, Print, Signage, and Filters

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Erika Norris
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Across our many factories and offices UNICOR demonstrates its commitment to environmental sustainability through its recycling practices and use of recyclables materials.

For instance:

Electronic documentation to reduce dependency on paper
The use of recycled paper and vegetable-based inks
Printing and bindery waste create new paper products
Environmentally sensitive laundry operations
Non-alcohol/VOC-free agents are used to run our printing presses.
We offer a cost-effective way to capture, convert, retain and retrieve information for government agencies in need of electronic imaging services, OCR, indexing and coding services, resulting in material and equipment savings, as well as reduced storage space.
In a typical year, printing and bindery operations returned in excess of 775 tons of waste to the paper market for the production of new paper products.
All detergents, bleaches and dry cleaning agents used by our Laundry Services operations are EPA-approved. They are oxygen-rich, rather than chlorine-based, which helps prolong fabric life. All cleaning agents are collected and appropriately disposed.
For added energy efficiency, washing machine water from the most recent rinse loads flows through heat exchangers which, in turn, warm clean water to launder subsequent loads.
Those plastic milk containers you recycle reappear in the most unexpected ways - as in UNICOR signs!
We also use environmentally sound processes to produce decals and screen-printed emblems. An ultra-violet curing process uses inks which become chemically inert upon exposure to a UV light source, and all are free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Clean air is essential to life, and we offer the right filters and HVAC air filtration solutions to meet your needs, from office buildings and maintenance facilities, to museums, airports, and hospitals.