Nolato’s sustainability work dates back to the foundation of the company in 1938. - It’s part of our DNA and continues to permeate everything we do, today with more dedication than ever before - says Glenn Svedberg - Head of Nolato Pharma Packaging.
With the slogan "Design for Sustainability" as a guiding star, our goal is to contribute to sustainability with efficient and smart plastic packaging for pharmaceuticals. With this in focus, we have switched to green electricity in all the factories where possible, i.e. everywhere except in China and the US. In addition, we optimize both packaging and transports to avoid unnecessary emissions. We also minimize the use of chemicals and continuously try to clean our processes a step further. You can always do everything a little better.
Designing for sustainability means, among other things, to always think about the recycling step already during the design phase. For example, it is important not to mix different plastic materials, which also means avoiding composite materials as they are difficult to recycle. Getting more and more countries to work actively with the infrastructure for recycling of packaging is a very important part of the fight for the sustainable society. Once the recycling processes are in place, this facilitates for people in everyday life and makes it easier to address people's behaviour and steer towards a more circular economy.
Part of designing for sustainability is also to create optimised packaging with the right amount of material. This is a big focus area for our product development team, which has developed a second generation of our biggest selling cap, where we have managed to reduce material consumption by 25 per cent, with retained properties, which saves both resources and costs for manufacturing as well as for transportation, says Glenn Svedberg.