Sustainability
Achilles’ Sustainability Approach
We at the Achilles Group strive to be a company that contributes to building an affluent and comfortable society. To do this, we must continue creating new value for our company, society, and the future. With the keywords of reassurance, health, comfort, fun, and energy conservation, we will continue to improve and evolve our plastic processing technologies built up since our founding to provide customers with products that better support their lives as well as inventive products. We implement an ongoing cycle of improvements to earn the trust and meet the expectations of all of our stakeholders.
Achilles Group Environmental Policy
Addressing the environmental issue is a shared challenge of humankind. Independently taking action to reduce our ecological burden is a requirement of a company’s existence and activities. In addition, we aim to be a company that contributes to creating an affluent and comfortable society and earns the abiding trust of society by continuously creating new value to our clients.
Accurately understand the impacts of our business activities on the environment, define our environmental goals, and work to achieve them.
Periodically revise our environmental management system through means including environmental audits, conduct a cycle of ongoing improvements, and effectively prevent environmental contamination.
Comply with environment-related laws, regulations, ordinances, and agreements as well as company policies, regulations, and other rules.
Through our business activities, promote environmentally friendly product development, global warming prevention, energy conservation, and the 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), and strive to maintain and improve healthy environments.
How do we achieve these goals?
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Reducing the amount of energy our organization consumes.
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Monitoring the number of air emissions that our manufacturing processes create so we can reduce it..
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Exceeding all requirements involving the management of stormwater.
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Working closely with local, state, and federal agencies to exceed our environmental requirements. Between 2016 and 2020, we saved 4,750,000kWh through our Strategic Energy Management project with our local energy company.
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Implementing new technologies and new best management practices to improve our environmental footprint.
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Conduct regular third-party audits to ensure continued compliance with local, state, and federal agencies, like ISO 9001:2015.
The 3R's at Achilles USA
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Reduce
Achilles is committed to reducing emissions to air, water, and soil. This involves monitoring Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data, setting goals, and creating initiatives to reduce emissions each year. Additionally, Achilles works continuously to improve material efficiency and minimize production scrap.
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Reuse
We offer reusable product packaging options and a complimentary packaging return program so that these items can be continuously returned to our facility and reused for future shipments. Our reusable packaging are racks, pallets, roll cores, etc.
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Recycle
We recycle in-house scrap and buy back pre-consumer film from select customers. Recycled material is used in both same-product and alternate product applications. Recycled content in products ranges from 0 - 50% by weight. Material that is not easily recycled in-house is sold to recycling brokers, effectively diverting plastic from landfill.