Major U.S. companies form new environment-focused packaging organization

Ten leading U.S. corporations are creating a new packaging trade organization, American Institution for Packaging and the Environment. AMERIPEN will engage on public policies impacting the packaging value chain on topics related to packaging and the environment. The organization will represent the interests of the industry in the areas of raw material producers, packaging manufacturers, packaging users and fillers, retailers and material recovery organizations. Corporate founders include Coca-Cola Co., Colgate-Palmolive, ConAgra Foods, Dow Chemical Co., DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, Kellogg Co., MeadWestvaco, Procter & Gamble, Sealed Air Corp. and Tetra Pak Inc. Modeled after EUROPEN and INCPEN, the European and British counterparts, respectively, AMERIPEN will advocate packaging policy developments in North America focusing on measures that are environmentally and economically sound, as well as socially responsible. The new organization will encourage science-based decision-making on sustainable packaging initiatives and provide a point-of-view and guidance to policy makers and thought leaders on the value and role of packaging.

Pictured: The mission of the new organization AMERIPEN, formed by 10 major U.S. companies, is to represent the North American market, whereby best use is made of the role, benefits and functions of packaging in society.