SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS
Could you share a bit of information about yourself, including your career path and what you love about your current role?
Chris Davidson: I’ ve spent close to 30 years in the forest products and packaging industry, working across functions including forest management, R & D, environment, health and safety, and sustainability.
What I really enjoy about my role today is working with Smurfit Westrock’ s stakeholders, our customers, NGO partners, suppliers and communities to find ways that sustainability can create real value not just for business, but for people and the planet. It’ s very rewarding to be part of a company with the scale and ambition to lead on sustainable packaging. It motivates me to see how our work helps drive both innovation and positive impact across value chains.
Kevin Hudson: I’ ve been in fibre procurement within the building products and paper and packaging industries my entire career after studying forestry and business in school, so this space has always been a real passion of mine.
What I enjoy about my role is that it requires me to think about how we can be as sustainable as possible throughout each stage of the fibre cycle – from making sure the forests we source from are managed responsibly and sustainably to ensuring that fibre is recovered and recycled to be utilised in our recycled paper mills to make new sustainable products.
Having that full view of the fibre lifecycle beginning at the forest level all the way through the recycled fibre process means I get to work on solutions that not only support our customers, but also help protect forests, reduce waste and keep materials in use for as long as possible.
David Upton: For the past 17 years I have been working across markets in Ireland, UK, France and the Netherlands at Smurfit Westrock in General Manager and Managing Director roles. My current position has me working with teams across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia to constantly evolve and improve our operational businesses, which is key to scaling our sustainable packaging solutions worldwide and most importantly adding value to our customers.
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