Hungary is the center of a major project. Hoffmann Neopac announced the beginning of the installation of solar panels to be used by the company for future renewable energy. Thus, the global supplier of high-quality packaging for the pharmaceutical, beauty and oral care industries continues its organization-wide sustainability initiative with a substantial installation of solar energy panels at its manufacturing plant in Debrecen, Hungary.
With a surface area of nearly 10,000 square meters, the project includes the installation of more than 2,700 panels. Once in operation, the panels will produce around 1,500,000 kWh, a significant portion of the plant’s electricity consumption. The clean energy initiative will involve an investment of close to $500,000..
Also in Debrecen, Neopac is conducting a materials reuse program in which waste from its Polyfoil® tubes will be used by a local company to produce new solar panels for use throughout the city. The effort exemplifies Neopac’s commitment to moving toward comprehensive green manufacturing practices.
The solar panel installations in Debrecen follow a similar initiative at the Neopac facility in Switzerland. Last year, the company installed one of the largest solar power systems in Switzerland. At a cost of more than $2.2 million, the extensive green energy initiative is making Hoffmann Neopac fully sustainable at each of its two manufacturing sites in its home country.
Finally, a wide range of EcoDesign solutions supports the company’s commitment to sustainability-oriented production advances. These include high-density polyethylene (HDPE) caps; recycled tubes with 64% PCR content; lightweight plastic tubes with a 30% weight reduction in the tube body; and bio-based tubes such as the novel wood-based Sprucea™ Tube. In the tin sector, the company has achieved full circularity of packaging steel in collaboration with its steel supplier. The result has been the recent launch of RecyCan®, which is made of 100% PCR steel from German households.
