Oct. 30, 2007 Label Impressions, a specialist in flexography, foil hot stamping, and screen printing, recently became the first flexo printer to receive Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, Cosmetics Design reports. The company has been offsetting its carbon emissions for years.

Label Impressions, along with sister company Natural Source Printing, are just two of the packaging suppliers serving up greener options for manufacturers under pressure from government and consumer to reduce, or at least account for, their environmental footprints.

(For more on the pressure to go green, read this profile of Weleda, one of the cosmetics industry's largest manufacturers.)

Earlier this month Curtis Packaging became the first North American printing and packaging company to go fully carbon neutral. The company also worked over a period of five years with the U.K.-based CarbonNeutral Company to achieve FSC certification for its luxury folding cartons.

In August, Monadnock Paper introduced a new line of carbon-neutral graphic arts print and packaging papers.