BOXWAY PACKAGING GROUP ACHIEVES SILVER ECOVADIS ACCREDITATION AT TWO SITES

BoxWay Packaging Group Limited, the innovative, customer-focussed, design-led corrugated cardboard packaging business, is delighted to announce it has achieved a coveted Silver rating by highly regarded EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of universal business sustainability ratings and intelligence solutions at both its production sites.

BoxWay Packaging’s Exeter and Peterlee sites are each celebrating a Silver EcoVadis Award after successfully completing the process and submitting robust data for the key criteria. The ratings system is the first and largest collaborative platform globally for trading partners to share responsibility performance information, helping businesses manage ECG risk and compliance, meet corporate sustainability goals and drive impact at scale by guiding the sustainability performance improvement of a business and its value chain.

Matthew Botting, Group Sales Director, comments: “I am absolutely delighted with our Silver Award, awarded to the top 15% of all EcoVadis rated companies, and which is testament to BoxWay Packaging’s achievement to meet stringent sustainability requirements. Securing this globally trusted EcoVadis Silver Award is a fantastic achievement for our Exeter and Peterlee sites and helps us to gain an insight into our sustainability performance and track our progress, reinforce customer relationships, promote BoxWay Packaging to potential customers and expertly manage our sustainability programme. This Award is also witness to the team’s ongoing hard work, commitment and dedication to ensure we meet very specific criteria in our continuous pursuit of excellent quality and innovation where our customers are at the heart of everything we do.”

Mr. Botting continues: “The EcoVadis sustainability tool allows us to assess and manage our sustainability practices within our suppliers’ supply chain and gives us a structured way to evaluate these. EcoVadis assessments focus on 21 issues, which are based upon international sustainability standards such as the Global Compact Principles, the International Labour Organization (ILO)conventions, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard, the ISO26000 standard, and the CERES principles and grouped into 4 themes (Environment, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics, Sustainable Procurement. This year we again scored fantastic results, achieving excellent results of being within the top 25%, 26%, 12% and 6% respectively, of companies rated by EcoVadis.”