Leading metal packaging concern Crown Holdings has released its second sustainability report, covering fiscal years 2011 and 2012.
Structured using the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) G3 Guidelines at Application Level C, Crown’s 'Sustainability Report 2013' focuses on developments in the company’s sustainability efforts from an economic, environmental and social perspective since its inaugural publication was issued in November 2011.
According to the Philadelphia-headquartered company, the report includes third-party industry figures as well as internal data showing progress on seven key metrics since the last reporting period: material consumption, VOC emissions, energy consumption, direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, waste recycled, waste disposal and NOx emissions.
“The findings in the report are clear and show that even as we have increased our unit volume production and expanded our manufacturing activities to new geographies we are using fewer resources and less energy,” says John Conway, chairman of the board and CEO of Crown.
Highlights of the report include full details on the “powerful sustainability story” of metal packaging and its 100% recyclability; winners of the first annual Chairman’s Sustainability Awards program, developed by the company to recognise those of its manufacturing facilities to have shown outstanding leadership and innovation in sustainability; and examples of sustainability-related innovations from Crown’s technology portfolio.
The full report, published in English, can be downloaded at www.crowncork.com/sustainability.
Executive summaries of the report will be available on the website in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish at the end of January 2014.
