Avery Dennison partners with Tosca
Avery Dennison Labels and Packaging Materials (LPM) is happy to announce a collaboration with Tosca, a worldwide leader in reusable plastic packaging and supply chain pooling solutions.
As a result of the collaboration, Avery Dennison LPM intends to move a significant amount of its product distribution throughout the continent to plastic pallets, with the objective of saving approximately 800 tons of CO2 emissions [1] from its European supply chain yearly.
Plastic pallets offer several benefits. Because they are more robust than wooden equivalents, they may be re-used more frequently and are less prone to fracture, lowering the risk of damage and waste in the supply chain. Tosca says that its plastic pallets may be reused over 100 times before being recycled.
Tosca will handle the delivery of materials from Avery Dennison plants and distribution locations throughout the EU, as well as the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. Deployments will take place progressively over the following year.
The arrangement allows Avery Dennison’s network of partners to participate in the pooling program on attractive terms in order to cover the onward freight of finished materials to brands and other end users.
Tosca uses a pooling mechanism to send clean empty pallets to Avery Dennison facilities from its service centers located around Europe. Tosca inspects and washes pallets after each cycle to ensure that the service is adequately handled.
Avery Dennison and its customers that participate in the pooling scheme will obtain a CO2 emissions reduction certificate at the end of each year. Tosca estimates that replacing all of Avery Dennison’s Euro-sized wooden pallets (1200x800mm) to Tosca may save 819 tons of CO2 emissions per year.
The pooling program has been trialed for almost 1 year for shipments from Avery Dennison distribution center in Dublin to customers in Ireland.
Violeta Gómez, Central Packaging Leader at Avery Dennison comments: “The pooling program has been a massive success in Ireland and is helping us to reduce our carbon footprint and eliminate waste within the supply chain.
Customers appreciate the fact that plastic pallets offer standard quality: they are cleaner (dust-free) and with less risk of damaging their products.”
Gómez continues: “Avery Dennison’s and Tosca’s plastic pallet pooling vision doesn’t stop after the pallets arrive to the customer. We encourage customers to take the chance to extend the pooling program further down the supply chain to end-users and help grow the eco system further.”
Felix Van Ouytsel, Business Development Manager at Tosca comments: “Tosca provides solutions that enable companies across the world to eliminate wasted materials, miles, space and labor to make the entire supply chain more sustainable.
As the largest pooler of plastic pallets in Europe, we deliver a combination of reusable products, a flexible global service network and a committed partnership which will benefit Avery Dennison and its customers. We look forward to this partnership and are very happy to welcome Avery Dennison to the Tosca family. ”
To take part in the pooling program Avery Dennison customers should contact their local sales representatives.
[1] Data provided by Tosca based on an industry average for materials, manufacturing processes, and end of life impacts
