Awards & Accolades


Stoelzle Glass Group awarded Ecovadis GOLD


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e are proud to announce that Stoelzle Glass Group has been awarded GOLD


status by the renowned ECOVADIS platform. This is an important recognition of our steadily increasing efforts and measures undertaken in the field of sustainability over the past years. According to the strict Ecovadis Methodology, which is based on international sustainability standards such as Global Reporting Initiative, United Nations Global Compact, and ISO 26000, Stoelzle Glass Group ranks within the top 4% of all Glass Manufacturers assessed by Ecovadis. “We are proud about our promotion to the Ecovadis Gold status. This


remarkable rating results clearly from our success in reaching a couple of important sustainability milestones, such as the certification according to ISO5001 and ISO14001, the publication of our 2nd GRI based Sustainability Report, our Group- wide Code of Conduct, as well as the successful implementation


of a Sustainable Supply Chain Management,” underlines Georg Feith, CEO of the Glass Group. Stoelzle Glass Group is certainly one of the most engaged and most advanced glass manufacturers in CSR among the 60,000 companies from all branches assessed by EcoVadis worldwide. We constantly strive to


improve our processes, technologies and machines in order to contribute significantly to reach the European Green Deal goal to be climate neutral. In this respect, Stoelzle takes also part in the Furnace of the Future Project: Together with several European Glass Plants we work on the development of a high-capacity hybrid electric furnace, which will be able to reduce furnace emissions by 60% and use 80% of electricity from renewable sources, replacing combustion of natural gas. In addition to all these eco-friendly


initiatives, Stoelzle sets also great score on labor & human rights, and has committed themselves to embed firmly their ambitious Code of Conduct, valid for all their employees, and the whole Supply Chain, too, in their company culture.


Ardagh Group’s Recycled Glass Briquettes win sustainability award


Ardagh has won a Sustainability Award in the inaugural ‘Pre- Commercialised Innovation’ category for its method of producing remeltable briquettes from the fine particle glass rejected during the recycling process, allowing 100% of recycled glass to be remelted into new glass bottles and jars. The rejected glass makes up 10% of glass collected for recycling and is currently unusable in glass manufacture because it contains loose organics and CSP (ceramic, stone and porcelain) which can cause blistering in new containers. It is typically diverted to road aggregate or is lost to landfill and can never be recovered. Driven by the goal to maximise


cullet recovery for remelt, Ardagh worked with various partners to


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develop the recipe and method to produce briquettes from the rejected glass, which can be melted safely in the furnace without any adverse effects – closing the recycling loop. The award attracted 63 entries


from across the world and was narrowed down to the top five in Packaging Europe’s online awards event. On being announced the winner, Brendan O’Meara from Ardagh’s European Glass Cullet team commented: “We’re incredibly proud to win the Sustainability Award, particularly with such strong competition. The potential of the briquettes to recover 100% of collected glass for remelt is a significant achievement. Special thanks go to Stewart Wright at Wright Engineering and Professor Paul Bingham at Sheffield Hallam


University for their incredible support and expertise.” Ardagh’s Chief Sustainability


Officer, John Sadlier, added ‘’We are delighted to receive recognition for this particularly important project that supports us in achieving our ambitious sustainability targets. We hope the additional cullet available as briquettes will help to achieve the


ultimate objective of 95% cullet and 5% raw materials within the glass batch, reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the furnace’’ For more on Ardagh’s


development of the briquettes, please visit https:// packagingeurope.com/finalist- interviews-ardagh-group-increased- recycling-cullet/


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