Curtis Packaging Discusses Sustainable Packaging

SANDY HOOK, Conn.—On February 27, during the Conference Board’s 2-day Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship at The Barclay Hotel in New York, Don Droppo, Jr., Curtis Packaging’s VP of marketing, addressed the topic of “Leveraging the Supply Chain for Competitive Advantage.”

Droppo’s co-presenters on the panel were John A. Delfausse, vice president, global package development, Estee Lauder Companies and John Frey, director, corporate environmental strategy, Hewlett-Packard Company. Droppo’s presentation, “The Eco-Advantage,” focused on the role sustainable packaging plays in protecting the environment and the ways Curtis Packaging, which was founded in l845, has converted its operations to 100 percent clean, renewable energy. The organization is a green power partner of the EPA, and the conversion represents 85 percent wind power and 15 percent hydro electric. “The benefit to the environment is the equivalent of not driving 6,200,000 miles per year, planting more than 480,000 trees, and offsetting more than 7,100,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year,” Droppo said.