The Klaipeda, Lithuania production site for RETAL Baltic Films has had its BRC Food Standard Safety certificate renewed for the fifth year in a row.
Granted the highest available AA grade, the global standard for food safety is for its rigid films, flexible films and print processes.
RETAL Baltic Films Head of Sales Violeta Rusecka explains, “It is crucial for us to maintain the very highest standard of food safety for our products and processes, so this certification is continued proof of that. We are continuing to expand our production and laboratory capabilities, in addition to our full FFS testing line and complete top and bottom lidding film offer, which also includes printing.”
Active across Europe, RETAL Baltic Films brings its wide range of rigid bottom films and top lidding films, including a mono high barrier, PE-free APET film in the final stages of development, which can be easily recyclable in standard collections.
The RETAL Baltic Films team will be presenting their complete portfolio at Interpack, at Stand C10, Hall 12.
For further information contact Maria Jarrar at media@retalgroup.com
The team of rigid and flexible film experts at RETAL Baltic Films has created a range of sustainable solutions for mono-packaging to support the recyclability goals of its customers in the food and film conversion markets. The APET and top-lidding films can be individually designed according to customers’ needs. The in-house packaging equipment installed at RETAL Baltic Films helps to cut downtime on customers’ production lines.
Particularly well suited to food safe packaging applications, the mono solution offers excellent resealability, helping to reduce food waste and cut food bills by keeping the product fresh after opening.
Vikorija Griziene, General Manager at RETAL Baltic Films, explained how the company has successfully created resealable packaging that is ideal for sliced cheeses and deli meats: “Developing resealable packaging is a huge technical challenge because it is important that the packaging offers the necessary barrier properties. Sliced cheese needs the right environment inside the packaging; no moisture but not too dry either, so the product has a good shelf life, even after it’s been opened and closed many times. We’ve conducted a wide range of technical trials to be sure that we can offer a range of top lidding and bottom film solutions that are both resealable and recyclable.”
These in-house technical trials highlight how sourcing both rigid-bottom and top-lidding films from one supplier means that the all-important reliability relationship between the two can be tested and guaranteed to deliver.
“Our customers in the dairy industry want to commit to sustainable packaging as much as we do,” Ms Griziene said, “so by working together to understand the performance requirements of resealable packaging for sliced cheese and harnessing our long-standing technical abilities in creating recyclable film, we’ve been able to make a full mono solution with high barrier properties, and a resealable top lidding solution using mono APET.”
Mono APET has a high potential for growth compared to other thermoformed polymers like PS and PP thanks to its toughness, dimensional stability and clarity. It can be moulded into practically any shape, and, because of its durability, it is ideal for sensitive applications such as food containers, beverage bottles and medical devices. Mono APET offers excellent barrier properties, food safety and is 100% recyclable.
“This innovation in food safe packaging gives our customers a choice,” concluded Ms Griziene. “As the bottom tray uses the most raw material, packaging producers have traditionally focused on making it recyclable. But to have a complete mono APET top and bottom solution for sliced cheeses and meats is really exciting. We understand the whole relationship; the sealing, the resealing. It’s a complete solution.”
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It is the fifth year in succession that the company has improved its score, boosting this from 60% last year to 63% this year and establishing it as a business making significant advances in its sustainability ambitions.
Retal has retained its coveted Silver level position and continues to rank in the top tier of the manufacturing category while working towards further improvement.
“We’ve further boosted our action in the Ethics & Labour category too, which is illustrated by our anti-discrimination policy and company-wide, multi-language video training, as well as the external anti-corruption gap analysis according to ISO 37001,” he said.
This year’s 63% score puts Retal well on track towards reaching its 65% goal to qualify for Gold status by 2025.
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RETAL Baltic Films will be adding to its extensive flexible packaging portfolio with mono solutions for APET and top lidding films at this year’s Interpack in Dusseldorf from 4-10 May 2023.
The team will be available at stand C10 in Hall 12, answering questions, offering samples and sharing the advantages of its agile range of films for the food and film conversion markets.
RETAL Baltic Film’s team of rigid and flexible film experts will present how its latest sustainable solutions for mono packaging can support recyclability goals of its customers. When sourcing both rigid bottom and top lidding films from one supplier, RETAL partners can be sure their packaging needs will be solved with the highest attention and customization. In-house packaging equipment installed at RETAL Baltic Films helps to cut downtime on customers’ lines as analysis is made before reaching the production line.
General manager Viktorija Griziene says, “I am looking forward to highlighting our flexibility, product quality and personalized customer approach at Interpack; 2023 is set to be another strong year for us as we continue to invest and expand, so we shall be talking to our customers and seeing how our latest innovations can support their sustainable packaging goals. As a rather small but experienced team with the benefit of being part of a multinational group with its own resin production, we are agile but with a stable supply of raw materials and stay close to the latest developments in the market.”
RETAL Baltic Films at Interpack: Hall 12, Booth C10
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RETAL’s latest Sustainability Report (for the period 2021) has recently been published and is available for download. The 80-page, informative document explains the company’s holistic CSR approach and presents its results. This is the first year that RETAL has also produced an Executive Summary; a concise version containing only the key facts and figures which can be easily shared, understood and translated, with each local plant able to offer it to their customers.
Sustainability Director Emmanuel Duffaut says, “The most important thing is that everyone who wants to know what we’re doing in terms of sustainability can find out quickly and easily. The Executive Summary follows the same structure and explains the full report in just six pages. It’s a great addition to the Sustainability Report for the convenience of our stakeholders and customers.
The increasing demand for ever more thorough sustainability reporting is great for boosting an organizations’ transparency and quantifiable CSR actions but can make it harder for stakeholders across the value chain to understand, especially if English is not their native language.”
The RETAL Sustainability Report 2021 Executive Summary is available for download here.
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Retaining its coveted Silver level position and staying in the top tier of the manufacturing category, RETAL proves its vocal stance on creating and producing responsible PET, rPET and HDPE preforms, closures and films across its 12 production sites in nine countries.
Sustainability Director Emmanuel Duffaut explains that ‘maintaining means improving’ in the tightly monitored EcoVadis reporting structure, as quantifiable improvements are required year on year to even keep the same score.
The three points increase overall has been achieved thanks to continuous improvements across the business, notably a 10-point score increase in the Environment category. Duffaut explains, “I believe our excellent results in the Environment category comes from our ongoing climate change management focus with the submission of Science-Based Targets (SBTi) for greenhouse gas emissions and our detailed risk assessment according to TCFD guidelines. We’ve further boosted our action in the Ethics & Labour category too, which is illustrated by our anti-discrimination policy and company-wide, multi-language video training, as well as the external anti-corruption gap analysis according to ISO 37001.”
Duffaut concludes, “We are very proud that we have boosted our overall score from 60% last year to 63%, which puts us well on track for our goal of 65% to reach Gold by 2025. Every percentage increase represents major action and mitigation. It’s ambitious but we are determined; all our plants are dedicated to implementing every possible improvement at plant and group level when it comes to the sustainability of our business and caring for our employees and the environment.”
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Multinational plastic packaging producer RETAL has increased its EcoVadis score for the fifth consecutive year.
Retaining its coveted Silver level position and staying in the top tier of the manufacturing category, RETAL proves its vocal stance on creating and producing responsible PET, rPET and HDPE preforms, closures and films across its 12 production sites in nine countries.
Sustainability Director Emmanuel Duffaut explains that ‘maintaining means improving’ in the tightly monitored EcoVadis reporting structure, as quantifiable improvements are required year on year to even keep the same score.
The three points increase overall has been achieved thanks to continuous improvements across the business, notably a 10-point score increase in the Environment category. Duffaut explains, “I believe our excellent results in the Environment category comes from our ongoing climate change management focus with the submission of Science-Based Targets (SBTi) for greenhouse gas emissions and our detailed risk assessment according to TCFD guidelines. We’ve further boosted our action in the Ethics & Labour category too, which is illustrated by our anti-discrimination policy and company-wide, multi-language video training, as well as the external anti-corruption gap analysis according to ISO 37001.”
Duffaut concludes, “We are very proud that we have boosted our overall score from 60% last year to 63%, which puts us well on track for our goal of 65% to reach Gold by 2025. Every percentage increase represents major action and mitigation. It’s ambitious but we are determined; all our plants are dedicated to implementing every possible improvement at plant and group level when it comes to the sustainability of our business and caring for our employees and the environment.”
For further information contact Maria Jarrar at media@retalgroup.com
Our latest Sustainability Report is available and here we are explaining the content of the key chapters.
The 'Environment’ is our ‘most material topic’.
But what does that mean?
‘Material’ and ‘materiality’ are words that often appear across the Sustainability Report and are used to define those issues that are relevant and significant for the company, our activities, and our ability to create value (financial and non-financial) for the company itself and our stakeholders.
The Sustainability Report Environment chapter details RETAL’s climate change action with our goal to set Science-based targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction via SBTi (Science Based Target initiatives) . It also explains our mitigation strategy to use as much renewable energy as possible – goal is to reach 100% in EU & US by the end of 2023 –, phasing out fossil fuels and increasing our energy efficiency across our plants.
Energy, after labour, represents RETAL’s largest operational cost, and is also a major contributor to our GHG emissions.
Sources of emissions
Different sources of GHG emissions (scope 1, 2 and 3) and the leverage we have to mitigate them are explained in this chapter. Scope 1 and 2 are our operational emissions, generated by the combustion of fossil fuels at our plants and the generation of the electricity we use, which are under our control. Scope 3 are indirect emissions generated up and downstream, for example by transport of final goods and raw material or the production of our raw material.
It also explains how we aim to contribute to the plastic circular economy to reduce plastic pollution and our GHG emissions by promoting Design for Recycling, encouraging use of recycled materials and lightweighting products.
The report then gives information on our management of water and waste although both are low materiality topics for RETAL.
The report details how we support our goals for boosting our CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) and EcoVadis scores, which are important performance evaluation systems for climate change and CSR respectively.
For further information contact Maria Jarrar at media@retalgroup.com
RETAL Baltic Films will be adding to its extensive flexible packaging portfolio with mono solutions for APET and top lidding films at this year’s Interpack, set to be held at the Dusseldorf Trade Fair Centre from 4-10 May 2023.
The team will be available at stand C10 in Hall 12, answering questions, offering samples and sharing the advantages of its agile range of films for the food and film conversion markets.
RETAL Baltic Film’s team of rigid and flexible film experts will present how its latest sustainable solutions for mono packaging can support recyclability goals of its customers. When sourcing both rigid bottom and top lidding films from one supplier, RETAL partners can be sure their packaging needs will be solved with the highest attention and customization. In-house packaging equipment installed at RETAL Baltic Films helps to cut downtime on customers’ lines as analysis is made before reaching the production line.
General manager Viktorija Griziene says, “I am looking forward to highlighting our flexibility, product quality and personalized customer approach at Interpack; 2023 is set to be another strong year for us as we continue to invest and expand, so we shall be talking to our customers and seeing how our latest innovations can support their sustainable packaging goals. As a rather small but experienced team with the benefit of being part of a multinational group with its own resin production, we are agile but with a stable supply of raw materials and stay close to the latest developments in the market.”
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See RETAL Baltic Films’ website at www.retalfilms.com
For further information, contact info@retalfilms.com or Maria Jarrar at media@retalgroup.com
RETAL is pleased to report that it has maintained its leadership in climate change management with a CDP B score for the 4th year in a row, placing the company above the average C score for its sector - Plastic Products Manufacturing.
RETAL Sustainability Director Emmanuel Duffaut notes how this B score represents progress rather than maintenance in real terms, as the ever-more demanding CDP evaluation process requires continuous action and improvement to keep the same score year on year.
Duffaut says, “We are confident we will reach our A score goal soon, through the validation of our near-term science-based targets in 2023 and performing a climate change risk assessment according to TCFD methodology which will, respectively, improve both our mitigation action and our governance.”
Duffaut adds, “This latest B score rewards our strong climate change stewardship and investment in mitigation; we have increased our use of renewable electricity once again. RETAL’s leadership position in climate change management demonstrates our appetite to mitigate our most material environmental impact but also to meet the strong expectation of our global household brand customers and other stakeholders in this field.”
For further information, please contact Maria Jarrar at media@retalgroup.com
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