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New converter is green from the ground up

6 High-barrier flexible pouch provider debuts with wind-powered facility and optimized equipment, and introduces first-of-its-kind compostable zipper bag.

In today’s sustainable packaging-focused environment, if you were given the opportunity to build a package manufacturing business from the ground up that was green from stem to stern, where would you begin? Perhaps you would integrate the latest building technologies for energy savings and clean manufacturing. State-of-the-art equipment that kept waste to a minimum and uptime to a maximum would certainly be on your list. What about your end product? Would it incorporate the latest materials to reduce your customers’ environmental footprint?

New high-barrier flexible-package manufacturing company Accredo Packaging, Inc.  of Sugar Land, TX, has done just that. Says the company’s vice president and general manager, Kevin McCarthy, “Accredo is actually built on the premise of sustainability.”

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