Reducing our environmental footprint

Carbon emissions from our supply chain are significantly higher than those from our own operations. To meet our sustainability goals, we need to work with our suppliers to reduce our environmental impact.

In 2022, our collaboration with long-time steel supplier ArcelorMittal resulted in a new and improved steel grade for our easy-open ends (EOEs). Not only did this make our cans easier to open, but by reducing their thickness (downgauging) we also reduced the amount of material used, and therefore the carbon emissions along our supply chain.

We are already using this new steel in our can-making operations at Erfstadt (Germany), and are planning to roll it out to other plants over the next year.

A recently installed Regenerative Thermal Oxidiser (RTO) in our Moëlan-sur-Mer plant in France has a potential VOC removal efficiency rate of 97%. But operating it requires significant electricity and gas consumption.

Aiming to simultaneously reduce energy usage and VOC emissions, our team installed a heat exchanger between the RTO and the Draw Wall Ironing (DWI) make-up lines. This captures clean, hot air from the RTO and reuses it to heat up the DWI lines to the ideal temperature for our lacquering processes.

In total, the project has achieved an estimated energy reduction of 500MWh per year.