Sustainable packaging solutions for food and everyday necessities

Packaging plays an essential role in the everyday lives of billions of people across the globe. Packaging makes food and everyday necessities available, more accessible, and affordable; secures hygiene and food safety; prevents food loss and waste; and continues to enable social and economic progress worldwide. 

Our vision is to become the first choice in sustainable packaging solutions, and we strive to earn this position every day. The way we can contribute is by focusing on developing circular packaging solutions with improved end-of-life management to help our customers achieve their sustainability targets. 

Our sustainability approach is comprehensive, covering the three ESG pillars of environment, social and governance. On the environmental side, we focus on climate, waste, water, combating deforestation and on developing products that are ready to recycle, compost or reuse. 

As part of our sustainability ambitions, we have updated our emission reduction targets, which have been validated and approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. Read more on our climate action. 

On the social side, we recognize the need for a safe working culture and environment where we can ensure everyone goes home safely. We aim to ensure and manage human rights across our value chain, and to have a positive impact on the communities where we operate. We are committed to doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, and we expect the same commitment from our business partners.

 

Sustainability

05.03.2026 · Recent, Sustainability

Huhtamaki strengthens climate ambition: Supporting customer expectations and driving environmental stewardship

As the impacts of climate change intensify and customer expectations for sustainable packaging grow, Huhtamaki is raising its climate ambition by adopting more ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets.

16.07.2025 · Recent, Sustainability

Innovative packaging solution that is recyclable and compostable, further expands Huhtamaki’s ice cream portfolio

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new ice cream cups that are both home and industrial compostable and recyclable, delivering a new sustainable packaging solution for the ice cream industry.