BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Corporation
(NYSE: BLL) announced the company's major milestones from 2016 tied
to its sustainability priorities and progress toward its ambitious
2020 goals, which were announced last year. The online update
covers sustainability data for the company's post-acquisition
footprint for the first time.
"2016 was a significant year in Ball's history and on our
sustainability journey," said John A.
Hayes, chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We
became a larger, more global company, began integrating new plants
and employees into our sustainability mindset, and continued
evolving our organization, our processes and our products so that
we can make cans the most sustainable choice in the beverage,
aerosol and food value chains."
Highlights from 2016 include:
Product Stewardship
- Collaborated with North American customers to bring sustainable
ReAl® aerosol cans to the U.S. ReAl cans
include a proprietary, Ball-developed aluminum alloy that allows
the lightweighting of its impact extruded aerosol cans by 20
percent. This lightweighting reduces a 150-milliliter ReAl aerosol
can's carbon footprint by 18 percent when compared to a standard
can.
- Continued work on the Joint Polar Satellite System
satellite, which is currently completing environmental testing for
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. JPSS
will enable critical measurements of global atmosphere, ocean and
land surfaces and provide essential data for weather forecasting,
storm tracking and continuity of NASA's long-term environmental
data record.
- Educated, inspired and empowered stakeholders to strategically
strengthen curbside recycling in the U.S. through our support of
The Recycling Partnership. Over the past three years, the
Partnership has reached 17 million households in 424 cities, placed
400,000 new recycling carts on the ground, reduced contamination
rates by 30 percent in targeted communities, and catalyzed
investments in collection and recycling of approximately
$27 million.
Operational Excellence
- Commenced a significant effort to collect, consolidate and
verify 2010-2016 monthly "Big 6" metrics, Ball's six most
material operational sustainability indicators, for the 41 Rexam
manufacturing plants that we integrated into our portfolio after
the acquisition's close in June 2016.
All data is used internally for performance monitoring,
benchmarking, and best practice identification and sharing.
Externally, in order to allow our stakeholders to analyze
performance trends, all environmental data available on ball.com
(and highlighted in this release) reflects our company after the
acquisition. ERM Certification and Verification Services assured
the majority of our 2016 data.
- Reduced our Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR,
recordable incidents per 200,000 hours worked) by 14 percent.
- Increased energy efficiency in our Global Beverage
Packaging business, which accounted for 85 percent of Ball's total
2016 energy consumption, by 5 percent since 2012.
- Achieved a 15 percent reduction in our Carbon Intensity
Index (normalized scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions) from
the 2010 baseline, averaging a 2.5 percent reduction per year.
Talent Management
- Conducted an Integration Pulse Survey with approximately
500 employees from regions that were significantly impacted by the
Rexam acquisition and achieved an excellent 81 percent engagement
score. Results, which reflect the introduction of new employees to
Ball, our culture and our Drive for 10 vision, were utilized to
develop action plans for our business transformation journey.
- Developed and launched a new leadership framework, which
outlines expectations for leaders and how we can elevate the
leaders of today, prepare the leaders of tomorrow and ensure our
culture remains strong.
Community Ambassadors
- Donated more than $4
million to approximately 1,900 charitable organizations
in the communities where the company operates and logged more than
34,000 hours of volunteer service – 2,000 hours more than in
2015.
- Invested in community programs that create a positive,
measurable impact on recycling, food security, disaster relief, and
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the
U.S. through The Ball Foundation.
"Thank you to our more than 18,000 employees around the world
and to our partners for their ongoing commitment to driving
significant improvements toward Ball's sustainability priorities,"
Hayes added. "With your help, we will continue to revolutionize our
industries, serve our customers, and put the right people and
processes in place to help us achieve our vision and create
long-term value for our stakeholders."
For more information on Ball's ongoing sustainability efforts,
please visit www.ball.com/sustainability. Additionally, for full
2016 sustainability data, visit our updated data center at
www.ball.com/data-center.
About Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation supplies innovative, sustainable packaging
solutions for beverage, food and household products customers, as
well as aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for
the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ
18,450 people worldwide and 2016 net sales were $9.1 billion. For more information, visit
www.ball.com, or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
Forward-Looking Statements
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future events and financial performance. Words such as "expects,"
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or views of the future and are subject to risks and uncertainties,
which could cause actual results or events to differ materially
from those expressed or implied. You should therefore not place
undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements and any of such
statements should be read in conjunction with, and, qualified in
their entirety by, the cautionary statements referenced below. The
company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise. Key factors, risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual outcomes and results to be different are
summarized in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including Exhibit 99 in our Form 10-K, which are available on our
website and at www.sec.gov. Additional factors that might affect:
a) our packaging segments include product demand fluctuations;
availability/cost of raw materials; competitive packaging, pricing
and substitution; changes in climate and weather; competitive
activity; failure to achieve synergies, productivity improvements
or cost reductions; mandatory deposit or other restrictive
packaging laws; customer and supplier consolidation, power and
supply chain influence; changes in major customer or supplier
contracts or a loss of a major customer or supplier; political
instability and sanctions; currency controls; and changes in
foreign exchange or tax rates; b) our aerospace segment include
funding, authorization, availability and returns of government and
commercial contracts; and delays, extensions and technical
uncertainties affecting segment contracts; c) the company as a
whole include those listed plus: changes in senior management;
regulatory action or issues including tax, environmental, health
and workplace safety, including U.S. FDA and other actions or
public concerns affecting products filled in our containers, or
chemicals or substances used in raw materials or in the
manufacturing process; technological developments and innovations;
litigation; strikes; labor cost changes; rates of return on assets
of the company's defined benefit retirement plans; pension changes;
uncertainties surrounding geopolitical events and governmental
policies both in the U.S. and in other countries, including the
U.S. government elections, budget, sequestration and debt limit;
reduced cash flow; ability to achieve cost-out initiatives and
synergies; interest rates affecting our debt; and successful or
unsuccessful acquisitions and divestitures, including with respect
to the Rexam PLC acquisition and its integration, or the associated
divestiture; the effect of the acquisition or the divestiture on
our business relationships, operating results and business
generally.
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