WAYNE, PA — TekniPlex reported lower workplace injury rates, reduced water consumption, and increased waste diversion across its global manufacturing operations in its fiscal 2025 sustainability report.
The report covers operations from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025 across the company’s 58 facilities in 12 countries and workforce of nearly 9,000 employees.
TekniPlex reported a 28% decline in its Total Recordable Incident Rate to 0.92 from 1.27 a year earlier. Its Lost Time Incident Rate declined 26% to 0.63 from 0.85.
Global water withdrawal fell to 1.49 million cubic meters from 1.90 million cubic meters, which the company attributed to manufacturing efficiency improvements and expanded recycling technologies.
The percentage of manufacturing waste diverted to beneficial reuse increased to 43.0% from 33.1%.
TekniPlex also completed its second companywide greenhouse gas emissions inventory covering Scope 1, Scope 2, and selected Scope 3 emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol framework.
Chief Executive Officer Brenda Chamulak stated the company focused during the year on operational consistency and integrating sustainability initiatives into core business operations.
“FY25 was a year of meaningful foundation building for TekniPlex,” Chamulak said.
The company highlighted several product-development projects tied to recyclable packaging and medical-device materials, including a recyclable polypropylene yogurt cup developed with Mexican dairy producer Alpura that uses up to 36% less plastic than comparable packaging formats.
TekniPlex also reported development of a tri-layer insulin infusion tubing system intended to extend infusion-set wear times from about three days to as long as two weeks.
During the fiscal year, the company opened a 200,000-square-foot sterile barrier manufacturing facility in Madison designed to recycle at least 95% of site waste.
A separate 200,000-square-foot molded-fiber manufacturing facility opened in Van Wert using recycled curbside and industrial fiber inputs.
TekniPlex said 344 employees participated in leadership-development programs during the fiscal year.
The company also disclosed community initiatives that included providing 156,000 meals to schoolchildren in Ahmedabad and funding pediatric cancer treatment programs in Mexico through recycling campaigns.
The full sustainability report is available at TekniPlex Sustainability Report.
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