Sun Chemical organizes committee to drive sustainability in packaging

Comprised of eight executives, including Myron Petruch, Carlo Musso, Chris Parrilli, Fernando Tavara, Robert Fitzka, Greg Hayes, Russell Schwartz, and Jim Van Horn, the Corporate Sustainability Committee will work together to guarantee company-wide engagement in sustainability initiatives and will build and oversee the company’s sustainability strategy, ensuring that proper resources are assigned for timely and effective implementation.

Additionally, Nicolas Bétin will assume the role of sustainability business leader for all of Sun Chemical and Dr Nikola Juhasz will become the technical director of sustainability.

Other stakeholders across all divisions and regions will also play a key role in a structured approach that will further advance Sun Chemical’s efforts for more sustainable technologies within the various packaging markets.

Driving many of the groups’ activities, are the sustainability goals of consumer packaged goods companies. They are setting ambitious sustainability targets for their organizations with goals of providing high levels of recyclable or renewable packaging as early as 2025, while reducing the use of plastics in packaging.  

‘Sustainability remains at the forefront for the future of packaging and while Sun Chemical has already established significant leadership in developing sustainable inks, coatings, and adhesives for packaging, there is more we can do,’ said Myron Petruch, president and CEO of Sun Chemical. ‘That is why we’ve created the Corporate Sustainability Committee — to ensure we have a structured process in place that puts our sustainability efforts at the forefront of all our business processes.

‘Our emphasis on sustainability continues to be fundamental to our innovation and product development and our approach to sustainability will guide the way we develop, manufacture and distribute our products, as well as how we work with our customers and suppliers.’

Since 2017 Sun Chemical has been a patron of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, a non-profit organization certifying the sustainability in the printing industry and advocating best practices and innovation in all areas of sustainability. The company has recently upgraded its patronage to gold, furthering its commitment to a sustainable supply chain.