Sustainability in the plastics industry

Sustainability is firmly anchored in our corporate philosophy. By including ENGEL in the group of 50 Climate Leaders, Bloomberg is honouring this commitment and giving the industrial commitment to climate and environmental protection a higher profile in the public eye.

The LIT Factory of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz is a networked teaching, learning and research factory for smart polymer processing and digitalisation. ENGEL is a long-standing partner and sponsor of the institute and conducts research with its own test facilities on site.

With digital product passports, R-Cycle creates the basis for a high-quality recycling process by automatically recording recycling-relevant information as early as the product manufacturing stage. The prerequisite for closing material cycles is information transparency along the entire value chain.

In order to close the loop, all actors along the value chain in Austria need to join forces. In order to ensure that packaging does not end up in the environment, but is returned to the product cycle, new effective alliances must be formed. This is why ENGEL, as a member of the Plattform Verpackung mit Zukunft, is working for the first time with new partners along the value chain from its location in Austria.

In mid-March 2019, ENGEL became one of the first plastics machinery companies to sign the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's global commitment to the New Plastics Economy. Together with more than 350 companies, universities and organisations, this cooperation is committed to the topic of circular economy and sustainability worldwide.

In 2023, ENGEL joined the Science Based Targets Initiative - a non-profit climate protection organisation that supports companies and financial institutions worldwide in setting science-based climate protection targets. With our ENGEL sustainability targets and our SBTi commitment, we are committed to the global climate protection goal of significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit the temperature increase to a maximum of 1.5°C.

With the EcoVadis platinum award, ENGEL is among the top 1% of the world's most sustainable companies. EcoVadis is the world's largest provider of sustainability rankings and assesses the environmental, social and ethical sustainability ambitions of companies.

The United Nations Global Compact is the world's largest and most important initiative for responsible corporate governance. The vision of the UN Global Compact is an inclusive and sustainable global economy based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which ENGEL fully supports.

Sustainability is firmly anchored in our corporate philosophy. By including ENGEL in the group of 50 Climate Leaders, Bloomberg is honouring this commitment and giving the industrial commitment to climate and environmental protection a higher profile in the public eye.

The LIT Factory of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz is a networked teaching, learning and research factory for smart polymer processing and digitalisation. ENGEL is a long-standing partner and sponsor of the institute and conducts research with its own test facilities on site.

With digital product passports, R-Cycle creates the basis for a high-quality recycling process by automatically recording recycling-relevant information as early as the product manufacturing stage. The prerequisite for closing material cycles is information transparency along the entire value chain.

In order to close the loop, all actors along the value chain in Austria need to join forces. In order to ensure that packaging does not end up in the environment, but is returned to the product cycle, new effective alliances must be formed. This is why ENGEL, as a member of the Plattform Verpackung mit Zukunft, is working for the first time with new partners along the value chain from its location in Austria.

In mid-March 2019, ENGEL became one of the first plastics machinery companies to sign the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's global commitment to the New Plastics Economy. Together with more than 350 companies, universities and organisations, this cooperation is committed to the topic of circular economy and sustainability worldwide.

In 2023, ENGEL joined the Science Based Targets Initiative - a non-profit climate protection organisation that supports companies and financial institutions worldwide in setting science-based climate protection targets. With our ENGEL sustainability targets and our SBTi commitment, we are committed to the global climate protection goal of significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit the temperature increase to a maximum of 1.5°C.

With the EcoVadis platinum award, ENGEL is among the top 1% of the world's most sustainable companies. EcoVadis is the world's largest provider of sustainability rankings and assesses the environmental, social and ethical sustainability ambitions of companies.

The United Nations Global Compact is the world's largest and most important initiative for responsible corporate governance. The vision of the UN Global Compact is an inclusive and sustainable global economy based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which ENGEL fully supports.