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The aim of the article is to present the manufacturing innovations as a tool supporting the implementation of the concept of sustainability. The improvement of sustainability will be monitored as the consumption of main media in the modern printing house. The impact for sustainability will be shown as a result of decrease media consumption. The innovations that are considered as one of the most significant subject matters with reference to sustainability have been widely discussed. The importance and the effectiveness of sustainability has been presented with the special attention paid to the social, economic and environment aspects. Furthermore, the significance and the efficiency of the innovative solutions aiming at the least possible impact on the environment has been identified. The theoretical part has been supplemented with the experience of the analyzed enterprise. On the basis of the analyses, it was demonstrated that the implemented manufacturing innovation (in terms of flexographic printing technology) contributed to the decrease of electricity consumption, production materials by 10–12% on a monthly basis and also to the increase of the employment by two employees. Innovations contribute to the decrease of inconvenience of production as far as the natural environment is concerned. Furthermore, the costs of production have been reduced and due to the increased employment, those have an impact on the social field of environment. Therefore, it can be stated that innovations can be considered as an indicator of efficient implementation of the sustainability with reference to eco-innovations in Poland.
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Lipiak, J., Salwin, M. (2019). The Improvement of Sustainability with Reference to the Printing Industry – Case Study. In: Hamrol, A., Grabowska, M., Maletic, D., Woll, R. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing II. MANUFACTURING 2019. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17269-5_19
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