REDUCTION FY24 VS FY23
What Our Certifications Mean for Your Brand
What each certification verifies, why it matters, and what it means for your packaging supply chain.
Environmental and Materials
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Tracks certified paper and wood from its source through manufacturing. Gives your brand documented proof that certified forest-based materials in your packaging come through a controlled supply chain.
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Verifies that our factories have a formal system for managing environmental impacts including waste, energy, and emissions, not simply individual sustainability initiatives.
Verifies recycled content and tracks it through the supply chain. This is what allows your brand to substantiate recycled-content claims rather than relying solely on a supplier declaration.
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Confirms timber entering the EU has met legal harvesting and trade requirements. It helps protect your packaging supply chain against illegally sourced wood.
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Controls restricted chemicals and substances of concern in materials sold in the EU. For packaging buyers, it helps ensure inks, coatings, adhesives, and other materials meet EU chemical requirements.
An independent assessment of our environmental, labor, ethics, and procurement practices. It gives your procurement team a standardized way to evaluate IDP rather than relying on our own sustainability claims.
Confirms our greenhouse gas emissions inventory has been reviewed by an independent third party for accuracy and completeness. It gives your sustainability team credible emissions data to use in your own climate reporting, rather than relying on our own figures.
People and Ethics
Verifies that our factories systematically manage workplace health and safety risks. In simple terms: the people making your packaging work within a formally audited safety system.
Audits working conditions including child labor, forced labor, wages, hours, health, and safety. It gives brands independent assurance about how workers in their packaging supply chain are treated.
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A public commitment to internationally recognized principles covering human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. It establishes the principles our business is expected to operate against.
Supply Chain and Trade
A widely used supplier audit covering labor, health and safety, environment, and business ethics. It gives procurement teams a recognized framework for assessing responsible manufacturing conditions.
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A U.S. Customs program for securing international supply chains against theft, tampering, and illegal activity. Validation demonstrates that our logistics and security processes meet U.S. Customs requirements.
Quality
Verifies that our factories follow controlled, repeatable quality processes. For your packaging, that means specifications, production, inspection, corrective actions, and continuous improvement are managed within an audited system.
WHAT FACTORY-DIRECT MEANS TO YOU
“When you own your factories, emissions can be calculated from actual energy consumption, not industry averages.
That doesn't make the number better, it makes it real.”
-SCS Consulting, the environmental sustainability experts
Measured, Not Estimated
Our emissions are independently measured by EcoAct using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Every reduction shown here comes from our factory’s verified operational data, not industry averages or carbon estimates.
Explore Our Approach
Explore the certifications, engineering, manufacturing, and community initiatives that shape how we design,
produce, and improve sustainable packaging.
