Real results, real progress: five highlights of adapa’s 2025 Sustainability Report

Sustainability should be provable, not just proclaimed. Our 2025 Sustainability Report is exactly that: our most comprehensive ESRS-aligned report to date showing real results, real progress, and every commitment accounted for.

Here’s what adapting today for tomorrow looks like in practice.

1. Renewable energy usage up to 94.6%. Scope 2 emissions down by 85%. In one year.

Renewable energy now powers nearly all of adapa. 94.6% of the electricity powering our European production sites came from renewable sources in 2025, up from 82% in 2024. Wind, solar, and hydropower now dominate our energy sources.

Our market-based Scope 2 emissions fell by 85%, from 7,019 to just 1,057 tonnes of CO₂e in 2025. Total market-based GHG emissions dropped to 500,752 tCO₂e, down from 583,290 in 2024.

We’re on track for 100% renewable electricity by 2026, and plan to submit near-term targets to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and achieve validation by 2027.

2. We didn’t wait for 2030: Our portfolio is ahead of the curve

More than half of our portfolio is already aligned with current D4R design guidelines. The 2030 deadline isn’t something we’re racing towards, it’s a goal we have actively been preparing for over the last years.

Five of our sites earned ISCC PLUS certification, enabling chemically recycled post-consumer content (PCR) in food-contact packaging. Through our Recyda software licence, we can now benchmark every product against CEFLEX, RecyClass, and national D4R guidelines, so we always know exactly where we stand.

By 2027, we’ll have assessed our entire portfolio for D4R, monitoring and following the CEN standards as they evolve to becoming a legal set of rules. This will enable us to provide reliable ecodesign solutions in every customer offer.

To us, recyclable packaging isn’t just a special request – it’s a vital element of a decarbonized and circular economy.

3. Cutting edge, circular, closed-loop solvent systems.

Printing and laminating flexible packaging involves solvent-based inks and adhesives, and it’s crucial to manage them responsibly.

In 2025, two of our sites made breakthroughs that raised the bar and closed the loop.

• Forlì, Italy recovers 100% of process-air solvents to virgin-grade quality, and generates enough surplus solvent to supply 145 tonnes to third parties
• Komotini, Greece completed plant upgrades that eliminated new solvent purchases entirely

Across operations, our VOC intensity dropped from 3.01 to 2.81 kg per tonne of sold product. By 2030, we’re targeting a 30% reduction against our 2024 baseline, and we’re already making progress.

The results speak for themselves: turning waste into an asset and fully self-sufficient solvent systems are circularity and sustainability at their finest.

4. Sustainable sourcing is now non-negotiable

Sustainable packaging starts with sustainable sourcing. We’ve made EcoVadis ESG assessments a standard part of how we work with suppliers, covering roughly 70% of our direct spend across our key raw materials.

100% of our paper and cardboard now comes from FSC® or PEFC™ certified suppliers; up from 82% in 2024.

Our goal is to exceed 85% ESG-rated strategic spend by mid-2026, and onboard only ESG-rated group strategic suppliers from 2027 onwards.

By 2027, all partners in our supply chain must hold valid ESG ratings and FSC® or PEFC™ certifications.

5. 12 rules. 1,878 people. One outcome: everyone home safe.

Our people are our most important asset. In 2025, we launched our Golden Rules programme: 12 life-saving behaviour-based safety rules rolled out across every site, for every employee. Implementing the new Near Miss App shifted our culture from reacting to incidents to preventing them.

Every one of our 1,878 people went home safe in 2025. For us, that’s the most important result of the year.

Adapting today for tomorrow isn’t a tagline, it’s a track record. From cleaner energy to circular packaging, safer workplaces to responsible supply chains, 2025 was the year our commitments became results. We’re proud of how far we’ve come. And we’re clear-eyed about where we’re going.

Read the full 2025 adapa Sustainability Report here.