Sustainability
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Partners in Profitable Sustainability
By joining WMEP’s Profitable Sustainability Roundtable, Silgan Specialty Packaging is looking to take our already comprehensive Sustainability program to the next level. Silgan Specialty Packaging is proud to be an innovative force in sustainable manufacturing. Just how pioneering are our sustainability record and practices? As just one example, Silgan Specialty Packaging holds a 12%…
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Silgan Specialty Packaging Intern Advances New Sustainability Initiative
At Silgan Specialty Packaging, environmental sustainability isn’t just a goal – it’s an exciting reality that our business practices every day. Silgan Specialty Packaging boasts a 96.4% rate of waste material recycled, soaring a full 12% above the industry average (source: Harvard Business Review, 2015). As part of Silgan Specialty Packaging’s commitment to remaining at the…
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Silgan Specialty Packaging Rail Spur
In 2013 Silgan Specialty Packaging christened a short, two-mile railroad spur that continues to provide benefits to a world well beyond this little track of metal. Silgan Specialty Packaging has received the resin pellets used in the manufacturing of their plastic products via rail for decades, but the nearest depot was two miles away and…
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Reusable Shipping Materials
In the United States alone, two billion wooden pallets are used each year. The use of these pallets contributes to more than six million tons of wood being dumped into landfills every year and the consumption of an estimated 50 percent of the country’s annual hardwood harvest. To minimize the environmental impact resulting from the…