For reasons bordering on sustainability and transparency, Tetra Pak has earned EcoVadis rating with Platinum Medal which is adjudged the highest in the globally recognised assessment.
Tetra Pak is a world leading food processing and packaging solutions company that works with customers and suppliers to provide access to safe, nutritious food for hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries every day.
With over 24,000 employees worldwide, the company commits to making food safe and available, everywhere, and promises to protect what’s good: food, people and the planet.
EcoVadis, on the other hand, is a globally recognised sustainability ratings platform, evaluating companies on policies, practices and performance related to environmental and social responsibility. As of 2023, the EcoVadis database included over 130,000 companies rated across more than 180 countries and 220 industries.
Earning this rating demonstrates the quality of Tetra Pak’s sustainability management system and commitment to transparency throughout the value chain. It also places the firm among the top 1 percent of over 130,000 companies assessed, and represents a major milestone in its sustainability journey.
The rating underscores Tetra Pak’s efforts to integrate sustainability into the core of its business across all four EcoVadis assessment categories: environment, labour and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement.
Furthermore, this success illustrates the firm’s purpose which is to make food safe and available, everywhere, and to protect what’s good – food, people and the planet. This purpose forms the basis of the company’s sustainability agenda, which focuses on five interconnected areas – food systems, climate, nature, circularity and social sustainability.
The company takes a whole value chain approach to sustainability, working closely with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders to embed it into every part of its business.
In 2024, this included the formation of a dedicated Sustainability Excellence team, building capabilities in processes, systems, data and people, and integrating sustainability more fully into daily operations.
A key driver of the result was the identification of opportunities to deepen transparency and a strong cross-functional collaboration. For example, in 2024, Tetra Pak’s supplier engagement programme, ‘Join Us in Protecting the Planet’, supported 29 suppliers to set validated science-based climate targets.
Emissions from purchased materials were reduced by 15 percent compared to the 2019 baseline, driven by improved volume allocation and close collaboration with suppliers through the Join Us in Protecting the Planet initiative.
Beyond the supplier engagement programme, Tetra Pak launched a new Supplier Code of Conduct, built on 15 fundamental principles and designed to enhance human rights and environmental due diligence efforts in the supply chain.
“This achievement reflects the determination of everyone at Tetra Pak to drive our sustainability transformation, together with stakeholders across the value chain,” Lars Holmquist, etra Pak’s Executive Vice President, noted.
“The resulting Platinum EcoVadis rating demonstrates our shared passion for continuous improvement and commitment to embedding long-term sustainability across every part of our operations and value chain,” he added.
