Isra-Mart srl : Tetra Pak achieves €9,98 billion sales and beats 5-year carbon target

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Tetra Pak, the food processing and packaging solutions company, has announced net sales of €9,98 billion in 2010, up 5,2% from 2009 at comparable rates.

Packaging Solutions reached €9,01 billion in net sales in 2010, an increase of 5,9% compared with 2009, while sales of Processing Solutions edged down 0,7% to €971 million.

“The strong sales performance of Packaging Solutions in 2010 was driven by double-digit growth in several geographies, including Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, China and South America,” says Uros Kepic, cluster VP and MD at Tetra Pak South Africa. “The figures also underpin our strategy to support customers, retailers, and suppliers with solutions that add functionality and differentiate themselves from the competition, that add value and reduce system costs, to the highest standards of food safety, and still delivering exceptional environmental performance” comments Kepic.

Alongside the strong sales results, Tetra Pak also announced that it had beaten its 2010 absolute carbon emissions goal, exceeding the 10% reduction target it set five years ago. The company achieved an actual cut in carbon emissions of 11% against a 2005 baseline, while sales grew by 23,1%, equating to a relative reduction of 30%.

“Environmental performance is an intrinsic part of Tetra Pak’s business strategy and operations,” adds Rae McGraw, Tetra Pak’s marketing director, environment and communications cluster leader. “As our results show today, by setting and meeting ambitious environmental targets we strengthen competitiveness, both for Tetra Pak and for our customers.”

The company also achieved targeted results in another key pillar of its environmental strategy; its efforts to ensure the sustainable supply of the paperboard used to make its packages and programmes to increase the recycling of used beverages cartons around the world.

In 2010, 40% of the company’s paperboard supply was certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), with 8,5 billion cartons put on the market bearing the FSC logo, enabling consumers to actively support responsible forestry. Thirty billion used cartons were recycled globally last year which eliminates more than 473 kilo tonnes of waste and providing the base material for a host of new products. Globally, the company has increased recycling by more than one billion packs per year since 2002.

Tetra Pak South Africa has rapidly expanded its waste collections programme. There are now over 190 drop off points located across major metropolitan areas and more recently 150 000 households were added to the programme for door-to-door collection. Drop off points can be located at www.tetrapak.com/za. As a committed participant in the Forestry Stewardship Council Tetra Pak opposes felling indigenous forests. In South Africa, Tetra Pak partnered with WWF in eco-schools programmes encouraging environmental awareness in the next generation in schools nationwide.