SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS
How is Smurfit Westrock leveraging its packaging innovations not only to advance sustainability, but also to create efficiencies?
Kevin Hudson: It’ s part of our mission to help our customers improve sustainability in their packaging supply chains and, wherever possible, we want to increase efficiency at the same time.
A good example is Depin Inc’ s Ecorrcrate, an alternative to the traditional wooden shipping crate that uses our recyclable WetTech corrugated board.
They’ re lighter, fully recyclable and require no tools to assemble, which means less labour, lower shipping emissions and better use of warehouse space.
Several companies are already seeing major savings – in some cases more than six figures. Innovations like this demonstrate the business value of circularity: reducing waste while improving performance.
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