Three years since becoming a B Corporation, Quadpack is proud to renew its certification. With the aim of using business as a force for good, the company continues to implement and promote sustainable practices, driving the beauty industry’s eco-transition as part of both the B Beauty Coalition and the now 10,000-strong community of B Corps worldwide.
Positive Impact
Processes
Quadpack aims to lead a sustainable business transformation in its operations, supporting partners and suppliers to start and accelerate their own transformation. Our positive-impact processes strategy covers three main areas where we have reached remarkable results, striving to become a reference in the beauty packaging industry and beyond.
Carbon emissions reduction
By offering in the region, for the region manufacturing and stocking solutions, being closer to our clients, we can be more agile while optimizing our stocks and avoiding waste.
Energy and waste management
Projects like Quadpack Wood’s new biomass plant, Industry 4.0 and renewable energy investments are making Quadpack a flagship of sustainability within the beauty packaging industry.
Sustainable supply chain
By building a transparent and robust governance structure, Quadpack lives up to its integrity values. Its code of ethics and its committees enhance oversight and speed up execution, providing guidance and clarity across the organisation.
Vision
To continuously increase the positive impact of our operating processes on people, communities and nature.
Mission
To accelerate sustainable business transformation.
Throughout 2025, Quadpack Foundation has supported projects from Mexico to China to help young people in need. The social entity established by Quadpack underpins its purpose of taking care and giving back, by focusing on the integration of youth at risk of social exclusion. Key among the various projects was the roll-out of Project Orion.
A dip-in pack for every brand and every need. Quadpack offers a comprehensive selection of packaging solutions for liquid makeup and skincare. The range is designed to meet the broadest requirements for formula compatibility, precise application and sustainability.
Spanish luxury fashion house Adolfo Domínguez has launched its latest fragrance line, ADN. The fragrance line uses a Woodacity® cap and collar assembly, developed in collaboration with Quadpack.
Guerlain’s Habit Rouge, the first amber fragrance for men, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Quadpack’s Woodacity® Hidden reflects both the brand’s values and the woody notes of the iconic fragrance’s limited edition.
Quadpack partners with leading Barcelona business school EADA to consider circular solutions for its Woodacity® product range. Woodacity® is Quadpack’s range of full-wood packaging solutions, including its patented closure systems that allow wood to function like plastic.
Quadpack has invested in new equipment to produce PET lip gloss bottles at its flagship manufacturing facility in Kierspe, Germany. The move leverages its expertise in thick-wall PET injection moulding by expanding the product mix to colour cosmetics.
When launching a makeup brand online, first impressions are key to attracting new customers. Consumer experience is crucial in keeping them. Spanish startup Idony Cosmetics understands the importance of the role that packaging plays on both sides. It has selected Quadpack’s 4.5ml Gala dip-in pack for its lip tint, bronzer and blush.
From supply chain programmes like Sedex and EcoVadis, to global movements like B Corp and the UN Global Compact, Quadpack aims for a well-rounded approach towards making a positive impact.
A five-year strategic roadmap leverages the collaborative efforts of its B Corp members, including Quadpack, to steer the beauty industry towards regenerative practices.
Innovation takes centre stage at Quadpack, with the appointment of Paula Cardoso to head up its Creative Hub. Here, she explains her role and how she is shaping the innovation process to maximise added value – not just for Quadpack and its clients, but for end users and the environment, as well.
Purpose-driven businesses consider their impact on multiple stakeholders, from shareholders and staff, to communities and the environment. To be truly effective, that purpose must be managed as much as the business itself. Professor Lisa Hehenberger at the Esade Center for Social Impact explains how social and environmental impact can be measured and managed.
Quadpack is proud to have been awarded a Platinum Medal from sustainability ratings company EcoVadis. Advances in business sustainability, most notably in the areas of Environment and Labour & Human Rights, upgraded the company’s rating from Gold to Platinum.
Purpose is more than an industry buzzword. Nadia Terfous, MD of Economics of Mutuality Solutions, explains how it can drive mutual value creation for all stakeholders.
With mountains of plastic waste accumulating on the planet, could post-consumer recycled material be the solution? Oriol Aran, Quadpack’s Head of Product Engineering, explores the issue.
Beauty packaging made of wood from managed forests brings a host of benefits to brands, consumers and the environment. Here is a round-up of the reasons why wood, quite simply, is good.
All businesses make an impact through their activity. Quadpack’s Chief Impact Officer Tim Eaves discusses the challenges and benefits of measuring stakeholder impact.
Packaging waste in Europe continues to grow, despite an increase in recycling. A big part of the problem is an excessive and inefficient use of packaging. There is more non-recyclable packaging and a lack of recycled content, while confusing labelling complicates sorting for consumers. There is more non-recyclable packaging and a lack of recycled content, while confusing labelling complicates sorting for consumers.
Quadpack is celebrating its first anniversary as a member of the global B Corp community. With a common goal of using business for good, it has been busy working on each of the five pillars of workers, community, environment, governance and customers.
Full-cover hotfoil stamping has now been incorporated into the decoration portfolio of Quadpack. Following the acquisition of decoration specialist Stefan Wicklein Kunststoffveredelung GmbH, the company has become one of the few expert providers worldwide of this complex technique.
In April 2022, Quadpack was certified as B Corp, a distinction given to a select group of 5,000-plus purpose-driven businesses around the world. We now belong to a community composed of global sustainability role models .
Thousands of businesses are joining the B Corp community worldwide, driven by a purpose of making a positive impact on society and the environment. But what does B Corp mean to companies and how deep is the transformation required to join it? Pablo Sanchez, Managing Director of B Lab Spain helps us to answer these and more questions.
Eight Quadpackers from France have engaged in a volunteer project to help young people prepare for the job market. The project is part of Pro'Pulse, a free preparatory course with a personalised and comprehensive approach that facilitates access to apprenticeship for young people without qualifications.
Quadpack has been awarded a Gold Medal by EcoVadis, the global, independent rating agency for sustainability management. The beauty packaging provider has improved its score thanks to its policies and actions in ethics, labour & human rights, environment and sustainable procurement.
Smart manufacturing is opening a whole new world of opportunities for Quadpack. After months of pilot tests, the beauty packaging manufacturer and provider is launching its Industry 4.0 project at the Quadpack Wood plant. The wooden components factory now has 63 machines connected by Internet of Things (IoT) devices that will provide real-time data, giving process visibility and efficiency control of the equipment.
Increased manufacturing capabilities are one of Quadpack’s priorities for the next four years. By 2025, the beauty packaging provider aims to lead innovations in airless and sustainable products, offering solutions “in the region, for the region”. With a clear strategy and a roadmap in mind, Quadpack’s Operations team has the mission of strengthening its industrial capacity through ambitious investments that are being globally deployed.
2020 came as a ‘stress test’ to all businesses and industries, ours being no exception. The challenges, however, helped us evolve as a business and as individuals. As the year draws to a close, I’m grateful to our team, our clients, our banks and our partners for what 2020 brought us: more resilience, collaboration and empathy.