July/August 2019
Industrial Packaging
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Greif Green Tool supports sustainability goals
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reif is seeing a continued rise in demand
for its Greif Green Tool as companies
proactively explore new ways to reduce their
environmental footprint.
The Greif Green Tool, developed in 2010, is a
flexible calculator that uses independent lifecycle
data of its industrial packaging products. The tool
is designed to help customers make informed
decisions about which industrial packaging best
suits their products and to achieve their
sustainability goals.
Recent significant updates to the capabilities of
the Greif Green Tool include enhanced analysis to
allow detailed modelling, plant specific analysis
and improved classification of Greif’s sustainable
products and processes.
The Green Tool
allows customers to
review and compare
the environmental
impact of plastic
drums, steel drums,
IBCs, fibre drums and
big bags specifically
related to their
business. Using a
Aysu Katun, Greif’s director of
range of cross-
sustainability – ‘The Greif Green
Tool provides robust information for
functional data, such
strategic decision making
as geographic scope,
product specifications and transportation, the
Greif Green Tool allows multiple stakeholders
within a business to discover shared improvement
opportunities.
Results can be used to create an environmental
baseline and help customers make meaningful
comparisons between different packaging types
and track their progress over time.
“As more companies develop sustainability goals,
specifically carbon emissions goals, they start
looking for ways to reduce their carbon impact,
which includes the performance of their suppliers
and the products they use”, said Aysu Katun,
director of sustainability at Greif. “The Greif Green
Tool provides robust information for strategic
decision making, in a very easy to use format. With
strategic sustainability decisions involving bigger
groups of senior leaders, Greif’s Green Tool can
help multiple parties understand and agree on the
need to change.”
“Both Greif and our customers are concerned
about the global waste crisis. By helping our
customers compare the environmental impacts of
different packaging options such as new versus
recycled versus reconditioned packaging, we assist
them in making decisions that will proactively help
them mitigate against future damage to the
environment.”
One of Greif’s largest global customers has this to
say about the Greif Green Tool: “The tool is very
user-friendly and contains lots of useful and
customized data. We use the data provided by
Greif for our internal carbon emissions reporting to
track our reduction progress over time. The
findings allow us to have informed sustainability
discussions.
“I haven’t seen a comparable tool in the industry
yet. Generally, LCA (life cycle assessment) studies
tend to be very generic whereas the Greif Green
Tool gives us the option to quickly tailor parameters
that result in much greater support and acceptance
from internal stakeholders.”
The Greif Green Tool (https://sustainability.greif.
com) is used by more than 70 of the company’s
largest global customers.
Meanwhile, Greif’s steel drum plant in Cologne
has successfully completed the Together for
Sustainability (TfS) audit with a score of 98 percent.
TfS is a joint initiative of chemical companies for
Greif’s new blow moulding machine at its Casablanca plant delivers up to 30 percent less energy consumption
sustainable supply chains, founded in 2011. It has
developed and implemented a global program to
assess, audit and improve sustainability practices
within the supply chains of the chemical industry.
The on-site examination carried out by Intertek
assessed sustainability performance against a
defined set of criteria across various aspects of the
business in Cologne including management, health
and safety, environment, quality, energy
management and social responsibility.
In 2018 Greif was awarded Gold Recognition
Level in sustainability performance by EcoVadis - an
independent rating agency specialising in the
evaluation of corporate social responsibility (CSR),
including sustainable development and
performance monitoring of suppliers. This
achievement placed Greif among the top five
percent of all companies evaluated by EcoVadis.
Located in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Greif
Cologne produces approximately 1 million steel
drums a year including tight head, open head, zinc
plated and combi drums. It serves the
petrochemical, chemical, flavours and fragrances,
Liner bags
specialist since
1995
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paints and coatings, pharmaceutical and food
industries.
In Morocco, Greif has made a large scale
investment in a new blow moulding machine at its
Casablanca plant.
Delivering up to 30 percent less energy
consumption than older generation machines, the
blow moulder is designed to offer significantly
higher productivity levels. The new equipment will
be used to manufacture Greif’s plastic jerrycan
range and is expected to increase capacity by up to
25 percent for its one to five litre bottles for the
lubricants market.
Equipped with built in safety features and a state
of the art automatic weight control system the new
machine is designed to optimise and reduce raw
material usage.
The Casablanca plant produces jerrycans of up to
25 litres capacity. It also manufactures steel drums.
It serves the lubricants, chemicals and agro-food
industries.
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