Home Contact us About Products Sustainability Partnership Careers You are here: Home Sustainability Social responsibility Quick menu Social responsibility Environmental sustainability Contact us Kareelstraat 108 B-9300 Aalst Belgium Get in touch Recent news Irish acquisition completed Gold EFIA award for UK subsidiary Rigid Containers First acquisition on Irish soil View all Corporate social responsibility As it is the case for any company, VPK Packaging Group NV is subject to economic laws. VPK Packaging Group NV has the objective to generate an annual profit to ensure the continuity of the company as a whole. VPK Packaging Group NV wishes to reach this objective taking into account its corporate social responsibility. This means to VPK Packaging Group NV that entrepreneurship is considered to be a process of ongoing improvement, not a one-off and no window dressing. It also means that we respect and take into account the justified concerns of the different parties involved in the business process, personnel, customers, suppliers, banks, neighbours, the community in which we operate, the environment and the climate. By acting systematically and in an integrated way, we are convinced that we can guarantee a sustainable and economic development in the best possible way, finally benefiting each party involved in the long term. Consistently introducing these general principles and objectives at all levels and in all decision making processes of the entire company, ensuring their compliance and improving and amending them, is part of Corporate Governance in the broadest sense of the word. An extended reporting on the Corporate Governance policy is an integral part of the annual report of the board of directors. This Corporate Government Statement can also be consulted on the company website. VPK Packaging Group NV is convinced that its business as such already significantly contributes to the environment: recovered paper is converted into efficient and attractive packaging. We re-use over a million tons of recovered paper. Continuous efforts are made to valorize the residue of the recycling process, previously dumped, e.g. by using the combustible part as fuel to generate energy. A minor part of the paper we use is bought from external sources and is paper produced from new wood fibres. Only FSC certified paper is used in the VPK production process. For each tree cut in an expertly managed wood, 3 or 4 new trees are planted. This yearly increases the forest surface in the European Union by approximately 6.500 m². Today, over 80% of corrugated packaging is collected and recycled. Since 1990 the paper industry has reduced its CO2 emission per produced ton by over 40%. And this while the industry already has a very limited CO2 emission in comparison with many other sectors. The employment of over 3.500 people is without any doubt socially relevant. More than 3.500 families in different European countries can make a living thanks to the sustainable economic activy developed by VPK Packaging Group NV. We continuously strive to ensure our employees have a safe and healthy working environment, through permanent actions to prevent work floor accidents, but also by an ongoing care for the safety of the equipment that our employees daily use. For some time, our factories have been systematically adapted to the stringent criteria of ‘High Protected Risk’, in collaboration with experts in the field. VPK Packaging Group NV wishes to offer its employees opportunities for development by providing in technical and behavioural training, and by letting them advance – where possible – internally to other functions with more and different responsibilities. By this we facilitate reaching our objective with regard to personnel policy attracting talented people, motivating and retaining them. For some years VPK Packaging Group NV has worked on ongoing quality control and improvement. In this way, we can respond to our economic mission, and offering creative packaging solutions to our customers. Customer satisfaction is the best way to develop a sustainable long-term business model. We attained the ISO 9002 certificate in 1994. In 2003 we attained the ISO 9001 certificate. In 2005 our corrugated and solid board factories were certified with the BRC-IOP-label, which confirms that our production sites are respecting the international standards for packaging material with regard to food safety. We expect the same ethical attitude from our suppliers: they need to compete based on objective criteria. We also substantially contributed to activities and initiatives alleviating or improving the fate of those less fortunate than ourselves, in Belgium and abroad. In 2013 a total of 160.000 € was donated to some forty national and international, renowned and less known, large and small social and cultural organizations. About this site Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Cookies Sitemap Quick links Key facts & figures Group structure Blue Box Partners Products Paper Corrugated board Corrugated sheets Solid board Cores & edge protectors Copyright © 2015 VPK Packaging Group. All rights reserved. Website by BOA