Sustainable Packaging Solutions

Sustainable packaging solutions are a necessary part of how we care for people. They are a critical piece of the puzzle that enables CPGs to bring food that is grown in one part of the world to people in another part of the world. It’s how we’re able to put medicine into the hands of people who need it. We touch the lives of people around the world every day with the products that we package, and we pledge to do so responsibly.

Our Commitment

Packaging Solutions

People Who Care

Our Sustainability Commitment

BW Packaging addresses the issues of packaging waste and climate change in three main ways: collaboration, innovation, and education. Hover over each option below to learn more about these initiatives.

Collaboration

Building relationships with conscious customers and industry partners.

Collaborating with Customers

Through intentional conversations and trials with our customers, we gain important insights that allow us to develop value-added packaging solutions that support corporate sustainability initiatives. This collaboration also allows us to educate ourselves on changing customer needs so we can continue to be the best sustainable packaging partners possible. This collaboration includes everything from sustainable material trials to disclosing scope three emissions data.

Innovation

Considering environmental impacts when designing new packaging solutions.

Innovation

Sustainable design thinking is embedded throughout our innovation process, beginning with customer interviews. Before we design new solutions, we take time to learn and discuss the specific challenges our customers are trying to overcome. We ask thought-provoking questions to help them fully understand the realities of material compatibility, resource efficiency, and other machinery-related considerations. By collaborating with us early, our customers have a higher success rate at bringing their sustainably packaged products to market sooner.

In addition to new machinery, we offer tooling upgrades and other retrofit solutions to support our customers’ sustainability initiatives without the need for significant capital investment. Whether you’d like to upgrade your existing rigid or flexible packaging machinery, we’ve got you covered.

Sustainable Packaging Solutions

BW Packaging offers sustainable packaging solutions for a variety of packaging and decoration types including bags, pouches, bottles, bowls, trays, cups, cans and various label solutions. Hover over the options below to learn more about our sustainable packaging solutions.

Bags & Pouches

Sustainable Solutions for Flexible Packaging— explore everything BW Flexible Systems has to offer.
Flexible Packaging Solutions for Recyclability (Video)

Bottles

Sustainable Bottle Blowing, Filling & Capping (Video)
CombiBlow PET Bottle Blower and Filler— Synerlink has developed CombiBlow, an all-in-one bottling solution that efficiently blows, fills and caps PET bottles at speeds of up to 8,000 bottles-per-hour.

Bowls & Trays

Denesting Solutions for Fiber Bowls & Trays (Video)
Reciprocating Tray Denester— To support the broader implementation of fiber-based containers, BW Integrated Systems collaborates with fiber bowl and tray providers to separate their products with pick-and-place denesters

Cans

Can Filling & Seaming Solutions— Pneumatic Scale Angelus actively partners with leading can makers to anticipate and mitigate any can handling challenges introduced by new, lighter-weight can designs.
Can End Handling & Conveyance— BW Integrated Systems’ can conveyance and end of line packaging equipment can efficiently handle more than 10,000 aluminum can-ends-per-minute.

Cups

Sustainable Cup Thermoforming Solutions (Video)
Cutting Tools for PET Cup FFS Lines (Video)
Cup Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) Machines— Synerlink delivers form-fill-seal solutions that can efficiently thermoform PET, polypropylene, and other fully-recyclable plastics at speeds between 36,000-57,000 cups per hour.
Snapcut Cutting Tool Technology— Synerlink has developed a cutting tool technology – Snapcut – that can cut and pre-cut PET, rPET, polypropylene, and other recyclable plastics at a thickness of below 0.7 millimeters.

Labels

Converting Solutions for Sustainable Shrink Sleeve Films (Video)
Shrink Sleeve Converting Equipment— Accraply partners with sustainable label suppliers to test and validate their solutions on shrink sleeve converting machines.

People Who Care

New sustainability leaders are stepping up across the BW organization every day. From solar panels to composting, buying refurbished furniture and more, we have so many stories to share. Peruse the stories below to get new ideas for how you can show that you care.

Lina Valencia-Shaw: Home-grown Fruits and Vegetables

Lina is an Accounts Payable Associate for BW Packaging. As she learned more about how the agricultural industry contributes to deforestation, soil depletion, and CO2 emissions, she became determined to grow more sustainable food in her community. Six years ago, she started volunteering to grow fruits and vegetables for the local food bank utilizing sustainable growing methods. To this day, she maintains a garden in which she grows fresh, sustainable produce that she gives back to her community.
Jason Rebeck: Silverware & Solar Panels
As the Office Coordinator for Filling & Closing Solutions by BW Packaging, Jason has assisted in the office’s transition away from plastic plates and plasticware to washable ceramic plates and silverware. This switch helps to eliminate landfill waste from disposable, single-use plastic plates and utensils. Not content to settle for just one sustainability initiative, Jason is also working with BW’s Property Management Group with the goal of installing solar panels on the Filling & Closing Solutions facility by 2025.
Taz Lombardo: Composting Food Scraps

To live more sustainably, Taz Lombardo, BW Packaging’s Content Marketing Leader, has taken up composting. Every week, Taz fills a plastic container with kitchen food scraps and places it in his freezer. After a few weeks, he adds the scraps to the compost tumbler, mixing it about once a week to help the composting process. He can then use the composted material as a natural fertilizer, both saving food scraps from going to waste and preventing greenhouse gasses caused by decomposing food.