CHEP U.S. Receives EcoVadis’ Gold Sustainability Ranking
ATLANTA – EcoVadis just lately awarded CHEP U.S., a Brambles firm and a worldwide chief in provide chain options, the EcoVadis Gold medal for its second consecutive 12 months. CHEP U.S. improved its 2023 EcoVadis rating to rank within the prime 3% (in comparison with the highest 7% the 12 months prior) for its class of ‘renting and leasing of equipment, gear and tangible items.’
CHEP exemplifies sustainability by its round enterprise mannequin primarily based on sharing, repairing and reusing pallets and platforms all through the provision community. Moreover, the corporate has dedicated to quite a few targets targeted on positively impacting companies, communities and the planet. CHEP’s confirmed monitor report of attaining its objectives, mixed with its current progress towards its 2025 targets, helped the corporate enhance its EcoVadis rating within the atmosphere, labor and human rights classes.
“Whereas EcoVadis was designed to assist corporations assess the sustainability credentials of their suppliers, its complete strategy offers useful suggestions and validation to sustainability-driven corporations like CHEP,” stated Jim Hartzfeld, Brambles’ Head of Sustainability for North America. “We’re proud to see CHEP’s EcoVadis rating improve every year as a mirrored image of our progress mindset and regenerative ambition. Collectively, CHEP and its clients, companions and stakeholders are delivering a constructive impression for the provision community of the long run.”
EcoVadis offers the main resolution for monitoring sustainability in world provide chains, score tens of hundreds of corporations in additional than 200 industries. The EcoVadis evaluation evaluates and scores 21 standards regarding organizations’ insurance policies and actions, in addition to its printed reporting on the atmosphere, labor and human rights, and ethics and sustainable procurement practices. Utilizing modern expertise and sustainability experience, the corporate helps organizations undertake sustainable practices. Its methodology is predicated on worldwide CSR requirements, together with the World Reporting Initiative, the United Nations World Compact and the ISO 26000.
Past CHEP U.S.’ participation within the EcoVadis program, different CHEP areas have an extended historical past of being acknowledged by the group, receiving a number of Platinum designations throughout Canada and Europe, and Gold rankings for Australia and Latin America.
About EcoVadis
EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted supplier of enterprise sustainability rankings, intelligence and collaborative efficiency enchancment instruments for world provide chains. Backed by a strong expertise platform and a worldwide staff of area consultants, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards present detailed perception into environmental, social and moral dangers throughout 200+ buying classes and 175+ nations.
About CHEP
CHEP helps transfer extra items to extra individuals, in additional locations than some other group on earth. Its pallets, crates and containers type the invisible spine of the worldwide provide chain and the world’s greatest manufacturers belief CHEP to assist them transport their items extra effectively, sustainably and safely. As pioneers of the sharing financial system, CHEP created one of many world’s most sustainable logistics companies by the share and reuse of its platforms below a mannequin generally known as ‘pooling.’ CHEP primarily serves the fast-moving shopper items (e.g. dry meals, grocery, and well being and private care), contemporary produce, beverage, retail and common manufacturing industries. CHEP employs roughly 11,700 individuals and believes within the energy of collective intelligence by variety, inclusion and teamwork. CHEP owns roughly 360 million pallets, crates and containers by a community of greater than 750 service facilities, supporting greater than 500,000 buyer touchpoints for world manufacturers similar to Procter & Gamble, Sysco and Nestlé. CHEP is a part of the Brambles Group and operates in roughly 60 nations with its largest operations in North America and Western Europe.
For extra info on CHEP, go to www.chep.com.
For info on the Brambles Group, go to www.brambles.com.
