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News / October 15, 2026
By combining renewable energy, operational efficiency and deeper supply chain insight, we are stepping up our efforts to reduce emissions and promote more sustainable packaging.
At Ecolean, we continuously work to reduce the energy we consume – and use renewable sources where possible. In 2025, we sourced 100% renewable electricity at our production sites around the world for the seventh year in a row.
“Our long-term commitment to International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-RECs) is key to our approach along with continuous energy efficiency improvements across our sites,” explains Tomas Ljungqvist – EHS Director at Ecolean. “Comprehensive energy mapping helps us to prioritise our emission reduction efforts, with our fugitive emissions and stationary combustion as key focus areas going forward.”
In 2025, Ecolean Pakistan reduced the amount of diesel it used in its modern electricity generators by 54% by automating and optimising settings. Backup electricity generators were essential in Pakistan to ensure reliable operations even during power outages.
While emissions from our energy use (scope 1 and 2) remain important as we have direct control over them, more than 98% of our emissions are indirect in the value chain (scope 3). These emissions come from our raw materials, machinery investments and logistics.
“Scope 3 are the most challenging emissions for companies to reduce, but we stepped up our efforts in 2025 by improving the granularity of our emission data,” says Ljungqvist. “Ultimately, this verified the accuracy of the data we present in our Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and confirmed that our emission calculations for our entire organisation are correct.”
Our future efforts will focus on the materials we source and the way we transport products. This includes the use of renewable lower-impact polymers or recycled polymers where possible, collaborating closely with suppliers, and optimising downstream transportation.
“Continuing our close customer and supplier engagement and collaboration are key to further reducing these emissions,” highlights Ljungqvist.
“We have made substantial progress on reducing our emissions in recent years by opting for green methanol to reduce sea freight emissions. Green freight options have been introduced in parts of our supply network and we closely follow our vendor initiatives to further decrease emissions. Introducing an electric zero-emission truck for road transport in Southern Sweden has been another action to decrease our emissions,” reflects Emil Axelsson – Director Supply Chain at Ecolean. “These choices were not always the most cost-effective, but we want to walk the talk on reducing our climate footprint and demonstrate that we are a responsible actor in society.”
Other recent solutions include two-pallet-high loading and allowing our customers to ship different packaging formats in the same container. Both initiatives reduce logistics-related emissions and costs for both Ecolean and its customers.
“We are always looking to optimise our customer shipments and have worked hard to avoid air freight as much as possible, which we have now limited to spare part deliveries,” says Axelsson. “An exciting development is that we are switching to sea freight for spare part deliveries and will only use air freight for small urgent deliveries. This will significantly reduce our emissions from spare part deliveries.”
Reducing climate impact requires a long-term commitment, collaboration and continuous improvement. While we still have work to do, we are proud of our progress and remain focused on delivering packaging solutions that support both customer needs and a more sustainable future.
“Looking ahead, we will continue to focus on reducing our scope 1 and 2 emissions, while at the same time decreasing the scope 3 impact of our raw materials. Our goal is to develop a packaging material that meets the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR),” concludes Ljungqvist. “We will also establish a dedicated scope 3 emissions reduction target that will help drive our future work and strengthen accountability across our organisation.”
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