Abbott Park, IL-based Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices, and diagnostics. The company employs more than 72,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries.
The company was recently named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and Sustainability North America Index for the fifth consecutive year, and was one of just two U.S.-based companies in the pharmaceutical industry category listed on both indices. The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index ranks Abbott among the top 300 of the world’s largest 2,500 companies, based on an assessment of economic, social, and environmental performance.
雅培三行business-pharmaceut运营icals, nutritionals, and medical products. There are divisions within each of those groups. Abbott Nutrition includes the Abbott Nutrition Products Division (its nutrition business), and Abbott Nutrition Intl.
可持续包装倡议是公司范围。雅培营养产品Div。，全球制药业务Div。（药物产品组的一部分），雅培糖尿病护理Div。，雅培诊断Div。和雅培血管Div。（所有医疗产品业务）都是最活跃的。
在这次采访中，Pete Macauley Abbott Notrition的全球包装技术总监，概述了公司雄心勃勃的可持续发展目标。Macauley也是跨分开团队的领导，致力于公司整体可持续包装倡议。
PW：您与包装和可持续性有何职责是什么？
Macauley: My primary responsibility includes development and implementation of all packaging innovation and technology for Abbott Nutrition’s global brands. We support production at 12 manufacturing sites worldwide and a number of third-party manufacturing locations.
PW：Abbott如何定义可持续性？
macauley：我们有三种主要的商务药品，营养和医疗产品。Abbott致力于保护环境，提供作为负责任的全球公民的领导。我们在日常业务日常运行的所有方面都定义可持续性。我们认为可持续性与我们生产的一样重要，我们如何生产它，以及我们提供该产品的地方。
PW：那么你如何解释公司的可持续发展战略？
macauley：Safeguarding the environment is one of our sustainability goals. Sustainable packaging and minimizing the impact of packaging on the environment fall into that realm.
PW：公司新闻稿谈到了在2013年谈论延长的封装减少5％的进展方面。当我们谈论减少金额时，它是否在重量方面？
macauley：Yes. Weight is the way we measure the resource-efficiency of our packaging.
PW: When you say 5% it sounds modest, but that’s probably not the case when you consider the overall picture, is it?
macauley：我理解这一点，因为你谈到了五分之一的数字并询问它是否真的很具有挑战性。每个行业和公司都有自己独特的挑战。我们介绍安全，功能和监管问题。鉴于要求和技术挑战，这对我们来说，五个对我们来说很重要。一个例子是我们拔出了两克塑料瓶的重量[导致的塑料瓶的重量，从而节省了相当数量的树脂。我们的目标是对环境产生积极影响。
PW: How does Abbott work with its packaging suppliers to help meet these sustainability initiatives?
macauley：我们有一个采购组织与我们吃晚饭pliers, and we provide guidelines to all of our suppliers. We also look for initiatives they have in place within their companies that demonstrate a commitment to the environment. For example, on paperboard we are committed to working with suppliers that focus on using renewable certified materials. We expect our suppliers to have a strategy that addresses sustainability. Our intent is to challenge them, just as our customers are challenging us in our own sustainability efforts.
PW：请告诉我们近期Abbott新闻稿中提到的2008年内部包装设计指南文件。
macauley：导致2008年我们的交叉分区团队的发展，所有雅培包装组都以有限的基础就有可持续发展举措。指南的目的是将其全部拉动，并在建立可持续性设计优先事项的方面提供所有部门的一致性。我们制定了标准，以便在谈论减少或回收或可再生资源时，我们在同一页面中，我认为跨行仍然是一个挑战。
PW: Did the Walmart scorecard help you out in developing these standards?
macauley：Yes it did. We try to work with Walmart and all of our retailers as closely as we can. We worked with them on the scorecard, and we believe that Abbott is in full compliance in meeting their expectations. And we are an active member of the可持续包装联盟in terms of developing industry-wide standards.
PW: That Abbott press release also mentioned a pilot program for shipments of physicians’ samples that require refrigeration. Can you describe the reusable box used for such sample shipments?
macauley：这是用于治疗克罗恩病的生物学的医生样本。[冷链盒是来自的绿箱热管理系统熵解决方案]. We deliver product in the box to physicians. The boxes are shipped from the physician’s office to the reclamation center, where they are inspected, cleaned, and returned to Abbott for use with another shipment.
PW: When you look at designing a new package or redesigning an existing package for enhanced sustainability, what are some of the most important considerations?
Macauley: We have to address safety, functionality, and the regulatory requirements of every packaged product, and we have to deliver those across all of our businesses. Then we examine other areas from a design aspect. We look at reducing or removing materials, reusability, recycling, and the ability to use renewable materials. Much of our focus across the board is on source reduction. Do the materials meet our safety, functionality, and regulatory requirements, and can they provide us with the lightest weight or density? Do we have excess materials in the packaging that may not be necessary, both from the standpoint of our retailer customers and our consumers?
PW: Does Abbott’s overall size and infrastructure help or hinder sustainability efforts?
macauley：从我的角度来看，这是一个很棒的帮助。我们有强烈的文化，以可持续性开展业务，因此公司的规模和多样性真的使我们能够在我们所有业务中合并可持续发展举措时，我们会带来很多良好的新思维。
PW: Abbott’s sustainability focus is on packaging materials or commodities, but the initiative is broader than that, yes? Macauley:Yes, Abbott has goals to reduce consumption of energy and water within our facilities, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. So if you look at our global citizenship report, we’ve established significant goals to deliver on all of those, with the expanded use of sustainable packaging being an important part of our commitment to safeguard the environment.
PW：这是否意味着Abbott正在寻找更高效的包装机械？
macauley：我们一直在寻找新的更高效的设备。它也是一个能量游戏。包装倡议将更多地集中在材料上，但我们将更加强调在路上的设备上。
PW: Has the economic recession lowered your sustainability priorities?
Macauley：绝对没有，因为我们一直在努力推动过去两年的包装努力。我们希望在行业内展示我们的领导力。无论是两年前，可持续包装都同样重要，从现在开始，从现在开始的两年，无论经济状况如何。
PW：经济学如何适应整体可持续发展图片？
macauley：Overall, when we go after both social and environmental benefits, we still need to show an economic benefit. So as we look at materials and consider source reduction, efficiency improvements, and using less packaging, that also translates into economic benefits. In some respects, we have always been going after sustainable packaging, even though it hasn’t always been called “sustainable packaging.” We’ve continuously worked to optimize our packaging, be it the primary or secondary package. When we reduce weight or improve efficiency, we’re typically also gaining a cost benefit. But it is also about more than weight. It is also about the type of materials we use, and exploring new approaches, like the reusable Greenbox.
PW: What are some of the biggest challenges you see out there regarding package sustainability down the road for Abbott?
Macauley: It’s balancing the integrity of the package and incorporating new and/or different materials into our product and package designs, while still delivering on customer expectations.
PW：为此，是雅培在这些可持续包装举措中使用零售客户和消费者工作更多？
macauley：我们与所有消费者和零售商客户保持密切关系，并定期接收反馈。在大多数情况下，消费者与包装设计的互动涉及定性或定量市场研究，直接反馈，并通过我们的销售和营销团队。
