Curtis Packaging Joins Ceres

BOSTON—Curtis Packaging has been approved as a Ceres network company by the Ceres board of directors. The board cited the company’s focus on sustainable packaging and established leadership in the industry.

Curtis Packaging is the first packaging company to join Ceres, a coalition of investors, environmental groups and public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges, and is among more than 70 companies in the Ceres network, including more than 25 Fortune-500 companies.

As a result of the company’s focus on environmentally responsible packaging, Curtis Packaging has recently established a leadership position in the industry, resulting in doubled sales in the past five years.

Curtis Packaging has made significant commitments to reduce the company’s own environmental footprint. Through products including environmentally friendly alternatives to foil lamination and film lamination, the company prevented thousands of tons of foil from entering landfills. In 2007, Curtis Packaging became the first packaging company in North America to be 100 percent carbon neutral.

Curtis Packaging published its first sustainability report this year (for their fiscal 2007) and hope to engage the Ceres network to learn best practices on sustainability reporting and advance their own performance. Companies that join Ceres must make continuous strides in improving their sustainability performance and reporting practices by engaging with investors, environmental groups, and other stakeholders.

Founded in 1989, Ceres is a network of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges. Ceres also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk, comprised of more than 60 institutional investors who collectively manage over $5 trillion in assets.