Leaders of the Pack

Smurfit Kappa’s RCF project embraces, drives, and pushes the boundaries of organisational ESG thinking

By setting five key performance indicator goals for a recent sustainability-linked RCF – and requiring success in all of them to gain the maximum margin benefit – Smurfit Kappa’s treasury team has demonstrated how a cross-functional project can unify a business. It also earns it the well-deserved 2021 Treasury4Good Award for Best Sustainable Finance Project.

Best Sustainable Finance Project

Smurfit Kappa

For Smurfit Kappa, the Dublin-headquartered paper-based packaging multinational, sustainability is really business-as-usual. The firm designs, manufactures, and supplies its products worldwide, operating in 36 countries across Europe and the Americas. Its circular business model  applies a sustainability lens to everything it does, from sustainable and responsible sourcing of renewable and recyclable raw materials, to responsible production of recyclable and biodegradable packaging solutions.

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