Sustainability

Already thinking today about tomorrow 

We have been taking responsibility as a family-run business since 1902 and placing a constant focus on sustainability for generations now.

Sustainability to us means simultaneously implementing both ecological, economic and social goals in equal parts in mutually dependability. On top of this, we continuously enhance the three pillars of sustainability in order to ensure improvements to them in the long-term .

As part of the Panther-Philosophy, the Panther Group has constantly strived to internalise and, above all, embrace the three pillars of sustainability.

With his sense of commitment, even the son of our company founder, Fritz Landmann, set up a foundation dedicated to training and further training from which we as a company group and the entire industry still benefit today and will continue to do so in the future. Our aim as well is to actively help shape and promote a sustainable future.

Identifying and solving problems, promoting innovations and investments in the newest technologies for the benefit of future generations are an integral part of our corporate policy.

Pillars of Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

As a matter of principle, the Panther Group safeguards the conscious, efficient and effective use of natural resources in order to protect and preserve the environment.

Our environmental strategy, Panther pro nature, continuously guides us on the right path, on which basis we invest in all measures for sustainability. With every investment we set new standards, be it in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, environmental protection or safety. Our strategy is geared towards conserving resources and, above all, preserving the environment in the long-term, and as a result, lowering specific levels of energy consumption, reducing of raw materials and CO₂ emissions, coupled with better performance.

In the future, we will continue to extend our cost leadership by making targeted investments in efficient production facilities in order to be able to operate successfully and sustainably in the market with our customers.

At the Panther Group, we attach great importance to innovation management . To illustrate this, we already use recycled corrugated base papers with a low grammage weight to guarantee the optimum performance of our corrugated board packaging and displays with the minimum use of material, and by doing so keep our carbon footprint as small as possible.

We want to continue to reduce our CO₂ emissions in the coming years with the products in our circular economy. We are also striving to increase the use of lightweight papers and, last but not least, also reduce our energy consumption.

Economic Sustainability

The foundations of our company are based on a long-term and strategic business model, which we need to generate profits within the social market economy to secure our existence and growth.

The fact that our company has a stable financial structure means that we can continuously make sustainable investments. Furthermore, the taxes we pay to the state also provide support. They also help to create jobs, which in turn lead to general prosperity within the system, especially for future generations.

We take a comprehensive approach to all our business and economic decisions and incorporate aspects of all three pillars of sustainability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Sustainability

For the Panther Group, taking a social approach is a matter of course and indispensable for a mutual coexistence. We augment our Panther-Philosophy with this decades-long approach by the corporate group supported by the three pillars of sustainability.

Our employees interact with each other in a helpful and respectful manner which reflects our corporate culture. We involve the entire Panther-Team in all areas in an active way. This also promotes a feeling of togetherness. In addition, our philosophy is fully internalised and embraced.

With our environmentally friendly and recyclable products, we make a contribution to environmental protection and as a result to society as well. Not only is corrugated board able to replace plastic in many cases, it can also be recycled, which helps us protect our environment. We also cultivate a conscious approach  at all times to the use of resources.

To our sustainability report

Examples of sustainable packaging and display solutions

Grass paper packaging with further benefits

Requirements

  • Fully closed box to avoid product loss
  • Pure corrugated board packaging using grass paper

Imporatnt characteristics 

  • Construction without reinforcement tapes or tear strips for a consistent one-material solution too
  • Fully overlapping plug-in bottom and side plug connection
  • Integrated handle formed from the lid flaps
  • Further benefit through conversion to a playhouse after emptying the product (hay) with the help of clean and at the same time tight perforations for knockout openings on three sides
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Tailor-made WoodBox

Requirement

  • Decorative PoS elements in the look of natural materials
  • Packaging, displays or sales promotion elements with a wood look
  • Association of individual and natural products
  • Visually hardly distinguishable from a wooden one
  • No mass production

Important characteristics

  • Decorative box with the latest printing technology
  • Significant additional benefits: light, optimally stackable, very stable, recyclable, can also be used as transport or storage boxes
  • Consists of only one cut
  • No sticking
  • Optionally with or without bottom slots
  • Conception of modular standard solutions for boxes / displays
  • Customer-specific dimensions and print design (modular external dimensions of 40 x 30 cm)
  • Extended stacking corners For safe stacking
  • Stacking openings in the corners of the for doing away with separate noses
  • Integration in display presentation possible: the boxes filled with goods are placed in inclined planes on a base, the base offers space for two standard boxes and individualized toppers with a sloping rear front
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Substitution: Corrugated board instead of plastic

Requirement

  • Replacing plastic packaging solutions with fiber-based materials such as corrugated cardboard with the same result
  • Protection and security within a shipping packaging for high-quality, sensitive technical parts
  • Safe transport packaging without styrofoam
  • Padding for silencers by air and corrugated board

Important characteristics

  • Transport packaging based on FEFCO 0201
  • Corrugated board cushions replace molded plastic parts - saving 60% of the total costs of a packaging unit (compared to the previously used version)
  • Monomaterial solution made from corrugated board
  • Thanks to the clever arrangement of foldable wall elements, it provides upholstery on the front sides
  • Buffering air space on the long sides
  • Fixation of the silencer through centrally positioned recesses in the face pad
  • Easy to assemble: fold up the upholstery and shape it as required
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Grass paper feed dispenser without tools

Requirements

  • Body of the bird feeder for 200 grams of free-flowing feed
  • Safe distribution of the filled, locked feed manger
  • Easy to open at the destination via a window perforation for safe feeding of the birds
  • Independent after-trickling of the feed
  • Insertion of a wooden perch via punched holes
  • Suspension for the house with a corresponding handle, which makes additional cords or similar unnecessary

Important characteristics 

  • Non-glued architecture that can be locked using plug connections
  • Dispenser function via a diagonal partition inside
  • Best possible access to the lining through a window to be broken out at a corner using a perforation line without tools
  • Stable suspension through inner lid flaps together with a push-in lid
  • Use of grass paper for production
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Grass paper boxes for perfect enjoyment on the go

Requirements

  • Packaging solution for lunch boxes
  • Consider optical as well as technical details: fulfillment of the functions of the portion packaging and as a container for uncomplicated consumption
  • Product safety and quality
  • A figurehead for an innovative packaging concept

Important characteristics

  • Use of grass paper in the corrugating medium
  • Pre-glued packaging with a slightly conical shape
  • Inwardly inserted lid fixed with a printed label
  • Punch marks in the lid indicate the correct position for the label and ensure that it is held in place
  • Securing the floor with additional straps for more stability
  • Outer packaging is provided with punched-out slits on the side for product views and level indicators
  • The contents of the lunch boxes are filled in plastic bags
  • Corrugated board boxes have an insulating effect for hot meals just before consumption
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Counter display StairCase: Bottomless savings miracle

Requirements

  • New and optimized construction approach with the aim of enormous material savings

Important characteristics

  • Multi-level counter display
  • Completely without a bottom
  • Sophisticated folding technology 20% material savings compared to a conventional variant with a floor
  • Logistic (weight reduction) and environmentally friendly advantage for a positive ecological balance: less environmental pollution during transport, use and disposal
  • The steps of the display hang on the back wall - no additional parts are required to support the steps
  • Newly designed supports are positioned directly on the box and - like the steps - are simply inserted
  • Stable, attractive, powerful counter display for a wide variety of purposes
  • Printing areas in any optics possible
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Naturalness for natural products

Requirements

  • Packaging solution that can be implemented at short notice
  • Use of rapidly renewable and abundantly available raw materials
  • Trays with admixture made from waste paper with a grass paper content - resource-saving material solutions for a wide variety of products, such as coffee, fruit and vegetables

Important characteristics

  • Optical and haptic stimuli
  • Availability of papers in various grammages and technological values
  • All papers meet the requirements of comparable Testliner III
  • Choice of different surface characteristics, e.g. typical look of the grass fibers and the base in the "classic" corrugated cardboard brown
  • Use of specially selected types of recycling
  • For liners with a significantly lighter appearance of the natural product
  • Optically better printability compared to the brown version
  • Another solution combines kraftliner with grass fibers for particularly high-quality and at the same time ecologically optimized base paper and subtle grass shimmer with the strong, dark tone of the K-Liner
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Duobox: Convertible packaging

Requirements

  • Uniform packaging sizes and variants that offer product protection and conserve resources
  • Convertible folding box in two packaging sizes for different goods to reduce storage space and a more precisely fitting variant for the respective shipping goods

Important characteristics

  • Additional cuts, grooves and notches for the purpose of changeability
  • Depending on the required size, the blank is opened, folded according to the required variant, filled and sealed
  • Length and width dimensions accordingly to achieve the maximum of the everyday shipping units
  • Both maximum sizes are according to FEFCO 0201 and 0200
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Sustainability and naturalness

Requirements

  • Bringing naturalness and sustainability in harmony with matching values ​​for convincing and authentic PoS campaigns
  • Achievement of defined sustainability goals: recycling, use of renewable raw materials, new materials and away from fresh wood fiber paper
  • High stability and load capacity

Important characteristics

  • Pallet display made from a combination of corrugated board and grass paper produced in a way that saves water and carbon dioxide (share 18%)
  • Material composition and print design reflect sustainability and naturalness: minimalist suggestion of tall grass on the base to the topper
  • The outer ceiling is made of unclad grass paper as a print carrier
  • Only inlays and transport covers are without grass paper
  • Designed for the ¼ pallet size, individual equipment is possible
  • Two levels of trays for goods
  • Small footprint enables use in markets of different sizes
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