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Empowering Sustainable Operations Throughout Your Workflow

For over half a century, Datacolor has been dedicated to helping our customers “get color right” by employing cutting-edge digital hardware and software technologies to enhance their businesses and protect our planet. Our mission is realized through close collaboration with customers and the development of innovative products that address color challenges, minimize waste, and boost workflow efficiency.

 

Streamline Your Workflow with Sustainable Operations

1. Define Your Color Palette

By digitally capturing, searching, and collecting color data, you can significantly reduce sample shipments and prevent over-development of color palettes.

2. Establish Color Standards

Visualizing and communicating colors digitally lowers sample shipments and accelerates time to market. Leveraging feasibility data helps avoid unnecessary work and excessive color development.

3. Match and Formulate Color

Evaluate color appearance on different substrates and materials digitally to achieve the ideal color recipes that balance cost, quality, and ingredient type. Optimize the use of sustainable ingredients while reducing rework, dye/pigment consumption, and water usage.Measure and communicate colorimetric data digitally across the supply chain to decrease sample shipments. Employ an automated lab-to-production recipe scaling process to reduce labor, lower error rates, and save time, all while minimizing chemical usage.

4. Produce Color Efficiently

Measure and communicate colorimetric data digitally across the supply chain to decrease sample shipments. Employ an automated lab-to-production recipe scaling process to reduce labor, lower error rates, and save time, all while minimizing chemical usage.

5. Ensure Color Quality

Digital measurement and communication of colorimetric data lead to reduced shipments, time, and cost savings, ultimately guaranteeing high-quality products.

Operate Sustainably

Datacolor is guided by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards for the Hardware Industry and the Software & IT Services Industry.

We identified nine material topics organized into three workstreams:

Responsible Operations

  • Ethics and Integrity – Fairness, integrity and accountability are embedded across all business functions. These are reflected in our Global Code of Conduct.
  • Supply Chain Sustainability – Our sustainability values, expectations and requirements are upheld throughout the supply chain.
  • Carbon and Climate – We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint throughout our value chain.

Sustainable Products

  • Product Safety – Expands from the safe operation and handling of our products to the privacy and security of the information we store.
  • Materials Management – Our ultimate goal is to design products that solely use recycled and renewable materials.
  • End of Life Management – We are committed to the goal that our products should never end up in a landfill. Learn more.

Rewarding Workplace

  • Health and Safety – We are committed to the practices that ensure employees and contractors go home safe and healthy each day.
  • Diversity – Datacolor will always be a safe, welcoming and inclusive workplace where everyone can be their authentic selves.
  • Fair Labor – We are committed to upholding labor and human rights across our global operations.

Delivering on our commitment

Throughout this past year, we focused on taking actions across all our material topics. Read our sustainability report to see examples of how we continue to invest and meet our commitments.

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