Constantia Flexibles

Founded by Herbert Turnauer in the 1960s, the Vienna-based Constantia Flexibles Group produces flexible packaging solutions for the consumer and pharmaceutical industries. Constantia Flexibles has successfully developed its activities outside Europe and, over the last five years, has become a global leader in flexible packaging. The Group now has approximately 8,300 employees in 16 countries.

The flexible packaging market for fast moving consumer goods, in which Constantia Flexibles operates, offers a combination of stability and growth. The business of Constantia Flexibles is largely independent of economic cycles because the Group caters to the daily needs of end-consumers. In addition, there are long-term megatrends supporting the growth of the flexible packaging market, such as urbanization and the increased consumption of single portions, tied in with the decline in the size of households and the development of the middle classes, especially in emerging markets. For several years, this market’s growth in GDP terms has outpaced economic growth in developed and emerging countries.

A new strategy called Vision 2025 is currently under preparation by Pim Vervaat, Constantia’s new CEO along with its new management team. This strategic roadmap should refocus strategic priorities primarily towards boosting growth and profitability. It should also strengthen the sustainable technology segment and the new Ecolutions suite of sustainable products, including the Ecolam technology, whose development has been slowed down by the pandemic including restrictions to conducting trials in this environment.

Constantia Flexibles works with the following goal in mind: “We envision a world in which packaging provides people with the highest benefit at the lowest impact on the environment.”

Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitments in respect for the environment into its business activities, Constantia Flexibles pays particular attention to continual improvements in the consumption of raw materials, which are essentially aluminum, plastics, paper, and chemicals like inks and solvents. Already in 2018, Constantia Flexibles pledged that 100% of its packaging solutions would be recyclable by 2025 and set an absolute Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction target. Constantia Flexibles closely monitors the possible impact of its products on the environment, in particular by performing life cycle assessments.

The opening of a newly built production facility in India in 2019, 100% dedicated to produce the recyclable product-family “EcoLam”, which is based on monopolymer laminates from Polyethylene (PE), bookmarks in particular one of the milestones of Constantia Flexibles’ way of business to grow by following the vision and mission and in particular its commitment to developing all packaging to be recyclable by 2025.

Constantia Flexibles prioritizes the health and safety of everybody who works with and for Constantia Flexibles and takes proactive measures to achieve its vision of “Zero Loss – No Harm” which is underpinned by the duty to create and maintain a safe and sustainable work environment.