Avery Dennison Partners with Tosca

Avery Dennison partners with Tosca Avery Dennison Labels and Packaging Materials (LPM) is pleased to announce a collaboration with Tosca, a global leader in reusable plastic packaging and supply chain pooling solutions. As a result of the collaboration, Avery Dennison LPM intends to shift a significant portion of its product distribution across the continent to plastic pallets, with the objective of reducing approximately 800 tons of CO2 emissions [1] from its European supply chain annually. Plastic pallets offer several advantages. Because they are more durable than wooden equivalents, they can be reused more frequently and are less prone to breakage, reducing the risk of damage and waste in the supply chain. Tosca states that its plastic pallets can be reused over 100 times before being recycled. [caption id="attachment_146800" align="aligncenter"] The first plastic pallet trial at the Avery Dennison distribution center in Milan. From left to right: Fabio Turco, Sales Manager Italy at Tosca, Violeta Gómez, Central Packaging Leader at Avery Dennison and Felix Van Ouytsel, Business Development Manager at Tosca. (Photo: Avery Dennison, PR474)[/caption] Tosca will manage the delivery of materials from Avery Dennison plants and distribution facilities throughout the EU, as well as the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. Rollouts will occur progressively over the following year. The arrangement enables Avery Dennison's network of partners to participate in the pooling program on favorable terms to cover the onward transport of finished materials to brands and other end users. Tosca uses a pooling system to send clean empty pallets to Avery Dennison facilities from its service centers located across Europe. Tosca inspects and cleans pallets after each cycle to ensure the service is properly maintained. Avery Dennison and its customers participating in the pooling scheme will receive a CO2 emissions reduction certificate at the end of each year. Tosca estimates that replacing all of Avery Dennison's Euro-sized wooden pallets (1200x800 mm) with Tosca pallets could save 819 tons of CO2 emissions per year. The pooling program has been trialed for nearly one year for shipments from Avery Dennison's distribution center in Dublin to customers in Ireland. Violeta Gómez, Central Packaging Leader at Avery Dennison, comments: "The pooling program has been a major success in Ireland and is helping us to reduce our carbon footprint and eliminate waste within the supply chain. Customers appreciate the fact that plastic pallets offer consistent quality: they are cleaner (dust-free) and present less risk of damaging their products." Gómez continues: "Avery Dennison's and Tosca's plastic pallet pooling vision does not end once the pallets reach the customer. We encourage customers to take the opportunity to extend the pooling program further down the supply chain to end users and help expand the ecosystem further." Felix Van Ouytsel, Business Development Manager at Tosca, comments: "Tosca provides solutions that enable companies worldwide to eliminate wasted materials, miles, space and labor to make the entire supply chain more sustainable. As Europe's largest plastic pallet pooler, we deliver a combination of reusable products, a flexible global service network and committed partnership that will benefit Avery Dennison and its customers. We look forward to this partnership and are very pleased to welcome Avery Dennison to the Tosca family." To participate in the pooling program, Avery Dennison customers should contact their local sales representatives.   [1] Data provided by Tosca based on an industry average for materials, manufacturing processes, and end-of-life impacts