Amcor wins sustainability award for flexible packaging

- Business segments recognized for savings in energy and water, and waste avoidance

 

- Award ‘reaffirms commitment to innovative and responsible packaging solutions’

 

Global packaging solutions provider Amcor has been awarded a 2012 Supplier Sustainability Award from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a leading multi-national manufacturer of pharmaceutical, diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, and biotechnology products.

 

Amcor Rigid Plastics, which produces rigid plastic containers, and Amcor Flexibles, the world’s largest supplier of flexible packaging, were jointly recognized for their overall sustainability efforts and targeted activities as a leading supplier to J&J.

 

Amcor was one of seven award winners in the worldwide competition held by J&J, which has a global supplier base of over 100,000 companies. Of those, 43 were nominated for the sustainability award.   

 

The award recognizes J&J suppliers that value and share a serious commitment to sustainability, according to the company. The nominees were evaluated on a range of environmental and social and economic criteria, including energy use and reduction, water use and reduction, waste reduction, workforce injury/illness reduction, workforce wellness, and community/human rights investment.

 

Amcor was recognized for its efforts in all six sustainability areas related to its supply of absorbable suture packaging, polypropylene cups, flexible foil, PET bottles, and catheter, orthopaedic, and Sterrad pouches utilized by J&J’s medical devices and diagnostics businesses.

 

As an example, Amcor developed a PET bottle with 50 percent and 100 percent FDA-grade post-consumer recycled (PCR) content. The 50 percent PCR bottle results in nearly a 20 percent carbon footprint reduction compared to the 100 percent virgin PET bottle.

 

Other examples include the optimization of several flexible packaging solutions, where improved design, as well as improvements in the manufacturing processes, led to a reduction in the carbon footprint and other life cycle impacts in the range of 15-20 percent.

 

David Clark, Amcor’s vice president of safety and sustainability, said: ‘Our emphasis on sustainability is a major focus of our business and we are extremely proud to be recognized by J&J for our targeted efforts in this area.

 

‘This award reaffirms our commitment to providing innovative and responsible packaging solutions that protect the many resources invested in products and reduce waste throughout the supply chain.’

 

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