Compliance
Nelipak maintains and expands on relevant industry credentials such as EcoVadis, CDP and ISCC+ . It is actively implementing the requirements for CSRD and other mandated reporting.
Our Sustainability Vision
“Help Healthcare Be Sustainable”
Nelipak is rethinking how to leverage sustainable packaging products for the healthcare industry. As we journey forward to a healthier future, we are committed to leading with our sustainability goals and principles.
Our Goal:
“Help Healthcare Be Sustainable”
We explore opportunities that help increase recycling, improve our environmental performance, and promote the use of and development of sustainable materials.
We remain vigilant about how our actions today impact our world tomorrow, including on how to collaborate on projects that have the power to push our goals, and improve the world we all share.
Our Five Sustainability Principles
Nelipak recognizes that we participate in truly global value chain. Our commitment is to ensure the highest quality of packaging that protects the integrity and sterility of healthcare products. We actively work to improve the sustainability of our products & processes to deliver our vision to “Help Healthcare Be Sustainable”.
Nelipak concentrates on five principal areas, called our Sustainability Circle. Our greatest impact is in the advancement of these areas, shaping our manufacturing improvements and guiding our design. This is applied how we work together and with the community – including how our suppliers do business with us.
Principles in Action
We collaborate for sustainability across healthcare, working together with our customers, associations and supplier to develop more sustainable products with lower footprints. Together, we improve sourcing options for recycled and alternative materials and to improve recyclability. We proudly stand behind our vision to Help Healthcare Be Sustainable.
Emissions
We actively aim to reduce scope 1&2 Green House Gas emissions by using less energy and increased renewables to deliver on our 2030 reduction targets.
We will reduce water consumption and lower waste through process efficiency, investment and recycling.
Circularity
Our development engineers apply design for sustainability to:
- Optimize form-factors for materials use and transport efficiency.
- Use easier to recycle materials and structures.
- Introduce recycled material solutions.
- Optimize non-product transit packaging.
Risk & Resilience
We complete specific risk assessments and supplier surveying as required.
Social
Across Nelipak we observe universal Codes of conduct & have access to a confidential Whistleblower process
We operate a Safe work environment for all employees and ensure role-relevant training programs develop the organization.
Our Sustainability Goals
Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we ensure a consistent connection to the goals of our customers and stakeholders.
Our work with customers and suppliers integrates value chain, manufacturing, and packaging design. Our commitment covers more than environmentally sustainable products. We respect Human rights and labor and expect the same from our suppliers and external partners.
Good Heath and Well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energy
Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
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Top 50 Suppliers covered by Supplier Codes of Conduct
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Measured Energy and Water Consumption
70%
Product Developers Trained in Design for Sustainability Principals
EcoVadis
Nelipak Awarded Silver Medal Sustainability Rating from EcoVadis Silver Medal for Second Consecutive Year.
Scoring strongly across all aspects of sustainability, this demonstrates Nelipak’s commitment to ongoing sustainability and alignment with the requirements for responsible participation in healthcare.
ISCC+
To enable the use of advanced recycled and bio-derived polymers, three Nelipak sites have been awarded ISCC+ certification for supply chain traceability. This ensures GHG reduction benefits can be achieved. Chain of custody ensures the greenhouse gas reduction achieved in materials manufactured. Conversion can be passed to medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers.
CDP
Carbon footprint reduction is key at company and product levels. We participate in the CDP disclosure, demonstrating commitment to reducing greenhouse gas and contributing to the Net-Zero targets in healthcare.
We achieved a score of C in this our first submission for the 2024 reporting year.
Sustainability In Action
At Nelipak, our goal is to provide the healthcare industry with safe, effective packaging solutions that protect products, patients, and the planet. We work with our supply chain partners, to create more circular products with increasing use of recycle-ready and recycled content materials in our products.
Ecovate™ Sustainable Product Portfolio
Our growing EcovateTM portfolio offers recycle-ready product solutions that help achieve for product protection and sustainability objectives. Moving from mixed material structures to recycle-ready, mono material packaging solutions can increase readiness for waste segregation and established recycle streams. For the right application, selecting materials containing recycled content (advanced chemical recycling or conventional mechanical recycling) can provide sustainable alternatives to virgin materials.
Eastar coopolyester 6763 Renew-50
Transforming hard-to-recycle plastic waste into high performance materials, PETG trays produced with Eastman’s medical EastarTM Renew 6763 copolyester provides an option for packaging with 50% certified recycled content* and virgin polymer performance that are compliant with legislation.
* Recycled content allocated by ISCC mass balance certification.
DuPont announces the launch of Tyvek® with Renewable Attribution
Tyvek® with Renewable Attribution (RA), offers a significantly reduced carbon footprint, helping to enable more sustainable healthcare packaging. The carbon footprint reduction for Tyvek® with Renewable Attribution is enabled by the partial replacement of fossil fuel feedstock with certified bio-circular feedstock during the production of raw materials used in Tyvek® manufacturing. This is achieved through the mass balance approach, in accordance with ISCC Plus Certification.
National Associations
Industry Research & Development Group (IRDG)
Ireland’s business-led innovation network of companies working together to achieve excellence in research, development, innovation and sustainability.
British Plastics Federation (BPF)
With over 500 member companies the represents over 80% of the UK plastics industry by turnover.
Our commitment to ensuring the highest standards of behavior and ethics.
Nelipak and our employees follows an agreed sustainability strategy, with progress reported quarterly to the board of directors. Our employees commit through our policies & Nelipak’s Code of Conduct, which act as our moral compass and anchor to ethical business practices.
Policies
We maintain both a sustainability policy and a sustainable procurement policy. These define our expectations both internally and throughout our supply chain.
Code of Conduct
Our Code of Conduct outlines expectations to each other, to our stakeholders and society. Our whistleblower hotline, open to all employees, helps us live the values included in the code. We extend the same expectations to our suppliers through our supplier code of conduct.
Board Oversight
Our board maintains a regular cadence of oversight and involvement. The sustainability plan is reviewed annually, with topic specific updates through the year.
Metrics and Progress
Nelipak has clearly laid out metrics and targets aligned to our sustainability focus. Progression is driven through our annual operating plans.
Our products help deliver safe, effective patient outcomes, protecting products, plant and people.
We collaborate with customers & suppliers to achieve goals for lower emissions, improved circularity, and increased resilience in healthcare.