BoxWay Packaging Group Limited, the innovative, customer-focussed, design-led corrugated cardboard packaging business, is delighted to announce it has achieved a coveted Silver rating by highly regarded EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of universal business sustainability ratings and intelligence solutions at both its production sites.
BoxWay Packaging’s Exeter and Peterlee sites are each celebrating a Silver EcoVadis Award, the highly recognised rating, after successfully completing the process and submitting robust data for the key criteria. The ratings system is the first and largest collaborative platform in the world for trading partners to share responsibility performance information and helps businesses manage ECG risk and compliance, meet corporate sustainability goals and drive impact at scale by guiding the sustainability performance improvement of a business and its value chain.
Matthew Botting, Group Sales Director, comments: “I am absolutely delighted with our Silver Award, awarded to the top 15% of all EcoVadis rated companies, and which is testament to BoxWay Packaging’s achievement to meet stringent sustainability requirements. Securing this globally trusted EcoVadis Silver Award is a fantastic achievement for both our Exeter and Peterlee sites and helps us to gain an insight into our sustainability performance and track our progress, reinforce our customer relationships, promote BoxWay Packaging to potential customers and expertly manage our sustainability programme. This Award is also witness to the whole team’s ongoing hard work, commitment and dedication to ensure we meet very specific criteria in our continuous pursuit of excellent quality and innovation where our customers are at the heart of everything we do.”
Mr. Botting continues: “The EcoVadis sustainability tool allows us to assess and manage our sustainability practices within our suppliers’ supply chain and gives us a structured way to evaluate these. EcoVadis assessments focus on 21 issues, which are grouped into 4 themes (Environment, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics, Sustainable Procurement). The 21 issues or criteria are based upon international sustainability standards such as the Global Compact Principles, the International Labour Organization (ILO)conventions, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard, the ISO26000 standard, and the CERES principles.
This year we again scored fantastic results in the areas of Sustainable Procurement, the Environment, Ethics and Labour & Human Rights, where we achieved excellent results of being within the top 25%, 26%, 12% and 6% respectively, of companies rated by EcoVadis. As part of our assessment, we completed an online questionnaire customised for the UK packaging industry and our business size, the results of which were published in a Scorecard. This highlights our performance across these four areas, reduces risks and costs and drives improvements to support our growth, value and innovation.”