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Co-packer’s Sustainability Study Results in New Strategy

The South Atlantic family of contract packaging companies analyzes its business’s carbon footprint, with the results of the LCA driving an ambitious climate pledge for 2050.

Results of a carbon footprint study conducted by South Atlantic Packaging and Wake Forest University are reported in the company’s ‘April 2021 Sustainability Report.’
Results of a carbon footprint study conducted by South Atlantic Packaging and Wake Forest University are reported in the company’s ‘April 2021 Sustainability Report.’

In sustainability, as with most other business processes, the saying holds true that you can’t manage what you can’t measure. In early 2021, the South Atlantic family of contract packaging companies—South Atlantic Packaging of Winston-Salem, N.C., ProStar Contract Packaging of Pottstown, Penn., and Versatile Packagers of Tampa, Fla.—worked with graduate students from the Wake Forest University Masters of Management Program to analyze its carbon footprint and identify opportunities to reduce that footprint.


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