Chapter 2
In 2025 Europe cut electricity use by 7%, matched 100% of electricity in Europe and Dallas with renewable certificates, and directed 82% of European waste to recycling.
Environment
At Truvant, we recognize our responsibility for the environmental impacts that arise both from our own operations and from our role within our customers’ value chains. Our business model is built on operational flexibility, and the scale and variety of the products we package directly influence key environmental indicators, including electricity consumption and waste generation. These indicators naturally fluctuate with production volumes and customer demand.
To manage these impacts more effectively, in 2025 we implemented comprehensive monitoring of environmental KPIs across all our sites. This system enhances our ability to track performance, identify areas for improvement, and better understand how both our activities and our customers’ order patterns contribute to overall environmental outcomes. Through continuous process optimization, efficiency initiatives, and data-driven decision making, we remain committed to reducing our environmental footprint and supporting more sustainable value chain practices.
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To reinforce this commitment, Truvant implemented and published an Environmental Policy across all our locations in Europe and North America, which provides the framework for operating responsibly and minimizing our impact on the natural environment. The Policy outlines clear expectations for resource efficiency, waste management, and compliance, and its execution is a shared responsibility across the organization.
Facility managers play a central role at each site, working in close collaboration with the Management Board to ensure that employees understand the Policy, follow its requirements, and actively contribute to our environmental objectives.
Key principles
Climate change
Europe set out to cut electricity use by 2% in 2025. It cut it by 7%.
Across our facilities, we rely on electrical energy to power production equipment and to maintain controlled temperature environments in areas where food products are packaged, to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards. As energy is essential to our ability to deliver safe, high-quality services, we continue to monitor our consumption and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
At Truvant Europe, we have been tracking our energy consumption since 2022 and consistently looking for ways to reduce it. Each year, we set specific electricity reduction targets, and we have observed year-over-year improvements. Our goal for 2025 was to reduce electricity consumption by 2% compared to 2024. We achieved a 7% decrease in electricity consumption, which resulted both from the initiatives we implemented and from a lower production volume.
of electricity we purchased in 2025 for our operations in Europe and Dallas was matched with certified renewable electricity instruments. This covers 46% of our total electricity consumption.
Main actions taken by Truvant Europe to reduce electricity consumption
All our facilities in Poland undergo periodic company energy audits. The results of the most recent energy audit, completed in 2025, indicate that the company’s energy management practices are effective and aligned with applicable requirements. The findings are used as a basis for monitoring energy performance and identifying potential improvement opportunities in the future.
In 2025, we also began monitoring energy consumption across all our facilities in the United States. Establishing this baseline is an important step toward expanding our environmental management practices globally. The data collected throughout 2025 will enable us to identify sites with the highest reduction potential, understand operational drivers of energy use, and prioritize initiatives that can deliver meaningful improvements. As we move forward, this expanded visibility will support more informed decision making and help us take targeted actions to further reduce our environmental footprint.
Europe excludes the Łódź facility (except vehicle fuels), where utilities are the customer’s responsibility.
| Europe* | U.S. | Global | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel consumption in own vehicle transport | 232 | 231 | 463 |
| Fuel consumption from natural gas | 845 | 5,612 | 6,457 |
| Fuel consumption from other fossil sources (LPG) | 4,106 | 0 | 4,106 |
| Consumption of purchased or obtained electricity, heat, steam and cooling from fossil sources | 0 | 8,935 | 8,935 |
| Total energy consumption from fossil sources | 5,183 | 14,778 | 19,961 |
| Share of fossil sources in total energy consumption | 53% | 83% | 72% |
| Energy consumption of electricity, heat, steam, and cooling purchased or sourced from renewable sources | 4,618 | 3,093 | 7,711 |
| Total energy consumption from renewable sources | 4,618 | 3,093 | 7,711 |
| Share of renewable sources in total energy consumption | 47% | 17% | 28% |
| Total energy consumption | 9,801 | 17,871 | 27,672 |
* Above data on energy consumption (excluding vehicle fuels) does not cover the Łódź facility, where utilities are the customer’s responsibility.
One of our U.S. facilities specializes in food packaging, which requires continuous cooling to maintain product safety and quality. The refrigeration systems necessary for this process operate on a constant basis, resulting in higher energy consumption at this site compared with our other locations. This operational characteristic is a key driver of the site’s energy intensity and is therefore relevant when interpreting our overall energy performance.
Climate change
Truvant recognizes that effective management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a critical element of addressing climate change. Measuring and monitoring our direct and indirect emissions enables us to better understand our environmental impact, support informed decision making, and establish a foundation for future emission reduction efforts.
Truvant Europe has been monitoring and reporting GHG emissions across all scopes since 2022. In 2025, we expanded our emissions accounting to include our facilities in the U.S., with Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions calculated as an initial step. As a result, in 2025 Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions are captured for all Truvant facilities, providing a consistent baseline for future emissions management and reduction activities. We also continued the calculation of Scope 3 emissions for our facilities located in Poland and one facility in the U.S.
Scope 1 includes direct emissions within Truvant’s operations, such as emissions from:
The largest source of direct emissions in Scope 1 was refrigerant leaks, primarily as a result of high cooling demand in our food packaging facility located in Boscobel, where appropriate temperature conditions must be maintained to ensure product safety and quality. High levels of refrigerant usage are inherently associated with an increased risk of leaks, and such an incident occurred at the facility during the reporting period. Another significant source of Scope 1 emissions was related to the combustion of LPG and natural gas for heating buildings.
| Europe | U.S. | Global | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHG emissions in Scope 1 | 1,198 | 5,908 | 7,106 |
| GHG emissions in Scope 2, location-based method | 2,554 | 6,753 | 9,307 |
| GHG emissions in Scope 2, market-based method | 0 | 5,713 | 5,713 |
| Total GHG emissions in Scope 1+2, location-based | 3,752 | 12,661 | 16,413 |
| Total GHG emissions in Scope 1+2, market-based | 1,198 | 11,621 | 12,819 |
Scope 2 includes indirect greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the purchase of electricity. These emissions occur at the place of energy generation, outside Truvant’s organizational boundaries. Emissions were calculated using both market-based and location-based approaches.
In Poland, 100% of electricity consumption in 2025 was covered by renewable energy certificates, resulting in zero Scope 2 emissions under the market-based approach. In the United States, renewable energy certificates are purchased only at our Dallas facility, where 100% of electricity consumption is covered by renewable sources. Other U.S. facilities do not currently use renewable energy or purchase contractual instruments.
Our greenhouse gas emissions are calculated in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which provides a globally recognized framework for measuring, managing, and reporting emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3. GHG emissions were calculated for the fiscal year 2025, from January 1 to December 31, 2025.
The organizational boundaries for calculating Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions were determined based on operational control, covering the following locations: Stryków, Poland; Łódź¹, Poland; Wrocław, Poland; Dallas, Texas; Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; Boscobel, Wisconsin.
The calculation of the company’s carbon footprint included all greenhouse gases listed in the GHG Protocol standard. The latest global warming potential (GWP) coefficients over a 100-year horizon, published in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6), were used for calculations.² To calculate the carbon footprint, the company used widely available GHG emission factors from recognized, peer-reviewed, officially published sources. GHG emission factors were selected based on temporal relevance, geographic representativeness and technological fit.
¹ Operations in Łódź are conducted on the client’s campus and remain partially outside the company’s direct operational control. Therefore, emissions in Scope 1 (except for fuel consumption in leased vehicles) and Scope 2 were not included for the Łódź facility.
² Exceptions are the emission factors for Scope 3 derived from the databases DEFRA 2025, expressed in CO₂ equivalent units, in which the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (AR5) was applied, and EXIOBASE 2022, in which the average GWP value for methane was used.
Climate change
Scope 3 includes other indirect GHG emissions of Truvant Europe and the Dallas facility in the U.S., which are generated across the value chain and are not under the company’s direct control. These emissions include both upstream (e.g., raw material production, transport to facilities) and downstream (distribution of finished goods to customers) activities. The identification of significant Scope 3 categories was carried out in accordance with the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
* Category 3 applies to all U.S. facilities; the remaining categories cover only the facility in Dallas. ** Includes all facilities in Europe and, in the United States, Category 3 for all facilities and the remaining categories for Dallas only. Bars are scaled to the largest category in each view.
The largest source of Truvant’s Scope 3 emissions is Category 1, related to purchased goods and services. A significant share of emissions in this category comes from materials purchased for packaging services. This category also includes emissions resulting from water consumption and the purchase of other production-related goods, office supplies and outsourced services.
Another significant source is the transportation of goods and materials to the company (Category 4) and the transportation of the finished product to the customer (Category 9). The remaining sources (capital goods, energy and fuels not included in Scope 1 and 2, waste generated in operations, business travel, and employee commuting) collectively account for less than 7% of Truvant’s Scope 3 emissions.
Truvant’s GHG emissions calculations were reviewed and validated by an independent third party. The corresponding assurance statement is included in the appendices to this report.
of CO₂e saved in 2025 by replacing a German leaflet supplier with a Polish one. We recommend alternative, more local suppliers to our customers to cut the carbon footprint of material transportation.
Control software automatically shuts down compressors at 10:00 p.m., preventing unnecessary continuous operation.
Leak detection audits of compressed air systems use an ultrasonic camera. Our initiatives in energy management, resource and waste efficiency, and raw material optimization lower emissions by cutting energy use, material losses and waste.
Sustainability Report 2025
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CEO statement, business model, sustainability strategy, ESG goals tracker, governance and the double materiality assessment.
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Chapter 3
Workforce, skills development, health and safety, diversity and inclusion, and employee engagement.
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Chapter 4
Business conduct, anti-corruption, suppliers, product safety, automation, data security and TES.
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The PDF edition includes everything on this page plus two attachments: the ESRS and SASB index, and the independent attestation of our Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon footprint.
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ESRS and SASB index
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Attestation of carbon footprint
Sustainability Report 2025
Start here
CEO statement, business model, sustainability strategy, ESG goals tracker, governance and the double materiality assessment.
Read the overviewChapter 3
Workforce, skills development, health and safety, diversity and inclusion, and employee engagement.
Read the chapterChapter 4
Business conduct, anti-corruption, suppliers, product safety, automation, data security and TES.
Read the chapterAttachments
The PDF edition includes everything on this page plus two attachments: the ESRS and SASB index, and the independent attestation of our Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon footprint.
Attachment 1
ESRS and SASB index
Attachment 2
Attestation of carbon footprint