verpacken-aktuell

Promote the use of renewable resources are one of SIG Combibloc’s current environmental and sustainability targets.

The manufacturer noe announced that from January 2017 onwards, all SIG Combibloc sites in Europe, South America, China and the Asia-Pacific region will be supplied 100 per cent with so-called ‘green electricity’.

In Europe and America, renewable electricity can be procured on the free market. In Asia, SIG obtained green electricity from local suppliers certified according to the GoldPower® standard. This includes, for instance, biogas plants in Thailand, in which methane from wastewater is extracted and converted to electricity.

“Obtaining source-identified green electricity in Asia is a huge achievement, as these capacities are very scarce and up to now have been acquired almost exclusively by large multinationals”, says Arnold Schuhwerk, who as Global Category Manager is responsible for energy procurement at SIG Combibloc. “We’re delighted to have reached this goal so quickly”.

Feasibility studies are currently being carried out at several of SIG Combibloc’s sites in Asia to check whether building own solar power plants are possible – from both the environmental and economical point of view.

kb