Our Values

Environmental responsibility

A key to any environmentally sound approach today is environmental sustainability — meeting today's needs without compromising the chance for future generations to do the same. At HAVI Global Solutions, we understand and keep you on the right side of this increasingly vital issue. We are committed to a vision that embraces the three C's of conservation, commitment and communication. To that end, our company and our clients have active, working relationships with environmental and trade groups, including The Sustainable Packaging Coalition and the Metafore Paper Working Group.

HAVI Global Solutions is committed to the development of processes that will reduce negative impacts to the environment, including:

• Design for Environment packaging performance tools give us a science-based set of methods to objectively evaluate packaging design options. By accounting for lifecycle impacts such as carbon emissions and resource use, these tools provide insight on which package designs deliver superior environmental performance.
• Our Environmental Packaging Guidelines are global in scope and provide direction to designers and purchasers for best practice design. This tool builds awareness of tactics to reduce the environmental footprint of packaging, such as eliminating unnecessary packaging, reducing weight by down-gauging, and incorporating recycled materials wherever possible.
• The Sustainable Forest Program, launched in Europe in 2005, establishes a process to procure only paper that originates from legal and acceptable forestry sources. This requires management all the way up the supply chain to ensure that only the desirable fiber is used for our paper-based products. This program states a preference for fiber certified as well-managed. In Australia, we use carton board sourced from sustainable forests, as certified by the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC).
• Our Packaging Quantification Reports cross-compile packaging specification data with sales data to provide a picture of overall material usage per year. This information is useful to monitor key performance indicators of environmental impact such as the total weight of packaging, the total amount of recycled material and the amount of renewable material.