Pilkington Italia Wins the CONAI's Special Ecopack Award 2025
NSG Group announces that Pilkington Italia, part of NSG Group, has been honored with one of the five Special Ecopack Awards 2025 by CONAI – the National Packaging Consortium in Italy. These prestigious awards recognize outstanding initiatives selected from 217 submitted projects and celebrate the most innovative solutions in the field of the circular economy.
The award-winning project transforms automotive glass logistics, delivering significant environmental benefits across the supply chain through:
- Reuse of polyethylene separators: Transitioning from single-use to over 20 cycles, enabled by a low-water-consumption recovery and ultrasonic washing process.
- 28.5% reduction in annual purchases of packaging items.
- Optimization of steel pallets, allowing 33% more glass per trailer, reducing transportation frequency and cutting CO2 emissions.
This initiative embodies the "use, return, repeat" philosophy, demonstrating how innovation and collaboration can create both environmental and economic value. The success reflects strong teamwork at the San Salvo plant and close cooperation with customers.
The award was presented in Milan during the "Economy of the Future" event, marking another important milestone in NSG Group's commitment to sustainability.
NSG Group will accelerate the activities toward the decarbonization of our business and strive to realize a sustainable society.
At the awards ceremony
The project team with the trophy
Actual packaging of products
About NSG Group (Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., and its group companies)
NSG Group is the world's leading supplier of glass and glazing systems in the business areas of Architectural, Automotive, and Creative Technology.
Architectural manufactures and supplies architectural glass as well as glass for the solar energy and other sectors.
Automotive serves the original equipment (OE) and aftermarket replacement (AGR) glazing markets.
Creative Technology comprises several discrete businesses, including lenses for printers and scanners, specialty glass fibers and glass flakes, mainly glass cord, which is a reinforcing material for timing belts, and Fine Glass products.
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