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To sustainably ensure the economic health of SPIES, the dialogue with our Stakeholders and the essential orientation of our sustainability vision is an important component. In product development, we combine our innovations with sustainability and think in cycles. We always keep an eye on the topics that are important to us, such as compliance and legal security.
As a plastic manufacturing company, we are aware of our responsibility towards our environment. For that reason, we have been consistently aligning our actions with economic and ecological criteria for years, combining them into meaningful, holistic process. This way we ensure that sustainability is practiced throughout the whole value chain at SPIES. The chart also shows that the cooperation of many parties is necessary for a functioning circular economy.
As a standard, our products are made of polypropylene. We use recycled material for non-food products. Materials made from renewable raw materials are also an alternative to conserve fossil resources.
From the product design phase and simulation to the construction of our injection moulds and final production, we adopt approaches that support sustainable product development. After production, we provide storage capacity for 40,000 pallets.
For transport, we pay attention to efficient utilization of pallets through good stackability of our products and offer reusable transport boxes to save resources.
Our products belong in the yellow bin or bag after usage. Correct disposal is the prerequisite for recycling the materials.
In order for our products to be well recycled, we produce packaging made of monomaterials. We are committed to pure recycling streams so that our food packaging can become food packaging again in the future.
As part of a materiality analysis, the most relevant sustainability topics were identified with all division heads. Two perspectives were taken to meet the requirements of double materiality.
1. Which sustainability topics affect us from the outside? (Outside-In-Perspective)
2. On which sustainability aspects do we exert an influence or which aspects are of great importance for SPIES? (Inside-Out-Perspective)
The identified topics were prioritized and checked for opportunities and risks. All topics that have a high to very high significance for our sustainability development are reflected in our materiality matrix and are our central fields of action. In the future, this analysis will be supplemented by a stakeholder survey. The most important stakeholder groups of SPIES are listed in the overview on the right.
In 2015, the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all member states of the United Nations within the framework of the 2030 Agenda. SPIES is committed to the goals and makes its contribution. Based on our materiality analysis and value chain, we analyzed our contribution to the SDGs. Every single goal is of great importance to us, but the focus of our commitments lies on goal 9, 12, 13, 14 and 15. The graphic shows our contributions to achieving the goals.
Measures derived from these priorities include:
The environmental awareness of our stakeholders is growing and the need for innovative and sustainable packaging solutions is becoming increasingly necessary, especially in the food industry. At SPIES, we consistently combine sustainability and innovation and develop our products according to the “Design of Sustainability” principle with the aim of meeting the needs of our world, people and our partners.
At SPIES, we strive for sustainability and innovation, and we develop our products in line with the principle "as little as possible, as much as necessary" with the objective of protecting valuable foods and equally, meeting the needs of our world, its people and our partners to the greatest extent possible. This is what we call “Design for Sustainability”.
Initiatives for sustainable and efficient products include:
The Research & Development department is a key driver of innovation and strengthens the company's fu-ture viability and competitiveness.
Our products are divided into three categories: Recycle, Reduce and Reuse.
Recycle products are made from 100 % mono-material and are therefore recyclable. With these products, we contribute to the development of a functioning circular economy. All products in the Reduce range impress with their optimized use of materials and weight reduction. By using state-of-the-art technologies, we save valuable raw materials and develop our packaging according to the principle of “as little as possible, as much as necessary”. The Reuse division demonstrates our expertise in the field of reusable products. A wide variety of geometries and applications are possible here. In addition, our SPIES reusable products can be turned into intelligent data carriers by combining smart technology.
The transition to a functioning circular economy is of key strategic importance to SPIES. As a plastics pro-cessor, SPIES is committed to producing conservatively and designing products sustainably.
Key measures include:
All of our efforts focus on closing the material cycle, reducing waste and making high-quality recycled ma-terials available.
The quality of our products is our priority. Low reject rates and low claim rates are important to us to satisfy our customers in the long term and support our optimal use of resources. This is ensured by our quality management team, which regularly checks the quality of the produced articles by camera technology and our hygiene requirements.
Our high quality and food standards ensure the safety of consumers when using our packaging, as confirmed by our FSSC 22000 certification. It goes without saying that all our products that come into contact with food are free of plasticizers such as BPA and phthalate.
Compliance responsibility lies with our business management. Annual assessment of compliance issues in the areas of energy and hygiene takes place in management reviews. As part of the EU Whistleblower Directive to protect whistleblowers, an anonymous reporting channel has been installed on our website.
