Sustainability
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Silgan is a Better Plants Partner
The program represents our commitment to improving our energy productivity by 25% over 10 years. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Better Buildings, Better Plants Program is a national partnership initiative to drive significant improvement in energy efficiency across U.S. industry. Through Better Plants, manufacturers and industrial-scale energy end users set ambitious energy savings goals,…
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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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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…