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Specialist magazine CONNECTIONS no. 65
Specialist magazine CONNECTIONS no. 65
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Corporate<br />
050.7403<br />
For the Environment:<br />
Changes in Packaging<br />
R&M puts sustainability into practice on a daily basis. Customers can be confident<br />
that environment-friendly, resource-saving solutions are being developed. A current<br />
example: the packaging for the new FM45 Cat. 6 A<br />
EL.<br />
Plastic bags and films have been used as universal<br />
packaging material for decades. They<br />
are easy to handle, available everywhere,<br />
inexpensive and offer good protection.<br />
However, a considerable amount of waste<br />
is generated if they are not disposed of in<br />
the correct way. The films are also based on<br />
crude oil, which is far too valuable to be used<br />
to make disposable packaging. This is why<br />
R&M has resolved to gradually introduce<br />
an environment-friendly packaging strategy<br />
that goes easy on raw materials within the<br />
framework of the Group-wide sustainability<br />
strategy.<br />
The goals:<br />
– Elimination of disposable plastic packaging<br />
by 2027<br />
– Optimal use of cardboard boxes to reduce<br />
waste<br />
– Optimization of cardboard specifications to<br />
reduce resource requirements<br />
– Use of digital media to save on manuals and<br />
labels made of paper<br />
A cross-divisional working group is coordinating<br />
the activities. Their targets for 2024:<br />
– Consumption of 14 tons less new material<br />
for films thanks to the use of recycled<br />
material<br />
– Reduction of cardboard consumption by<br />
60 tons<br />
– Reduction of paper requirements for installation<br />
instructions by 11 tons<br />
– Process development for a new packaging<br />
concept<br />
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