Partnerships and memberships

AIM Progress

SIG is a member of AIM-Progress, a forum of leading fast-moving consumer goods manufacturers and common suppliers to promote responsible sourcing practices and sustainable supply chains. Through this collaboration, we strengthen our human rights and responsible sourcing practices by leveraging shared knowledge, tools, and capability-building initiatives. SIG also participates in the AIM-Progress Mutual Recognition of Audits Framework, which governs the mutual recognition of four-pillar social compliance audits among participating members. In addition, AIM-Progress enables us to benchmark our performance through its Responsible Sourcing Journey framework, helping us assess the maturity of our human rights due diligence practices and drive continuous improvement across our operations.

Alliance to End Plastic Waste

As a member of Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), SIG reinforces its commitment to building a circular economy for plastic packaging, collaborating with global industry leaders, waste-management stakeholders and governments to drive scalable solutions. In 2025, the Alliance reported that since its launch in 2019 it has reduced nearly 240,000 tons of unmanaged plastic waste and valorized over 253,000 tons through recycling and reuse¹. It has also introduced its new “Strategy 2030” to shift from smaller projects to large-scale, integrated programs focused on systemic change, particularly in priority geographies such as India, Indonesia and South Africa, and thematic areas like flexible plastics².

Through our membership, SIG supports this strategic trajectory by leveraging its packaging innovation, and global presence, with regional sustainability managers contributing to country program implementation.

Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

SIG has joined the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) – a global, multi-stakeholder, non-profit standards setting and certification organisation – to enhance sustainability along the aluminum supply chain.

The ASI brings together producers, users and other stakeholders to promote the responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminum. SIG supports the ASI’s objectives to improve environmental and social aspects of the aluminum value chain as part of the company’s strong commitment to responsible sourcing.

By joining the ASI, SIG has the opportunity to enhance the environmental credentials of our cartons through the ASI certification on the responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminum.

Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty

As part of the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, SIG joined leaders in calling for a binding global treaty to harmonize policies, strengthen legislation, and scale proven solutions in sectors like packaging.

A Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX)

We continue to actively contribute to CEFLEX, the collaborative initiative driving a circular economy for flexible packaging in Europe. Our participation allows us to work alongside industry partners to advance design-for-recycling guidelines, improve collection and sorting systems, and scale end-market solutions for recycled materials. This collaboration is particularly important for our bag-in-box and spouted pouch packaging, where shared innovation and aligned standards help accelerate practical recycling pathways and increase circularity across the value chain. Through CEFLEX, we strengthen our commitment to shaping sustainable packaging systems that keep materials in use and reduce environmental impact.

Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)

As a long-standing member of the CGF Plastic Waste Coalition of Action, SIG continues to play an active role in driving collective progress toward a circular economy for packaging. We contribute to the Golden Design Rules, helping align global design standards to enhance packaging recyclability; the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) workstream, which promotes effective and harmonized systems for end-of-life management; and the Flexibles workstream, focused on advancing scalable solutions for one of the most challenging packaging types. Through this collaboration, SIG helps accelerate systemic change across the consumer goods industry.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

SIG’s collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation aims to accelerate the transition to fully circular packaging solutions worldwide. By leveraging the Foundation’s expertise and network, SIG will focus on reducing waste, improving recyclability and promoting the use of renewable materials. The partnership is a key step in SIG’s broader strategy to innovate and scale sustainable packaging practices, driving meaningful progress toward a waste-free, low-carbon future for the packaging industry.

Food and Beverage Carton Alliance (FBCA) and the European Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE)

Together with industry partners Tetra Pak, Elopak and Lamipak, and key paper board suppliers Stora Enso and Billerud, SIG formed the Food and Beverage Carton Alliance. This global association builds upon the strong foundation of the former European Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) and integrates the expertise of EXTR:ACT, its technical arm.

The alliance is structured around three core components:

• Advocacy: to engage policymakers worldwide to help solve global policy challenges and advocate for public policies that recognize the essential role of food and beverage packaging, support green innovation, and encourage the transition to low-carbon, circular economies.

• Communication: to ensure that information about our solutions – whether related to climate mitigation, circular economies, or food system resilience – is accessible to all. Our goal is to increase awareness of the benefits we bring.

• Center of Expertise: technical solutions, innovations and industry data globally and locally, will provide evidence-based insights. Consolidated research and non-competitive industry data will set benchmarks for progress and action across the sector.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC™): Forests for All Forever

FSC™ is a non-profit organization, providing trusted solutions to help safeguard the world’s forests and tackle today’s deforestation, climate, and biodiversity challenges. FSC™ is the only global forest certification system which is supported by all major and critical pressure groups, guaranteeing the highest credibility.

Forum for the Future

Forum for the Future which is a leading international sustainability organization working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift towards a just and regenerative future in which both people and the planet thrive. SIG has a long-standing partnership with the Forum for the Future and contributed to the Business Transformation Compass 1.0 which provides guidance for a regenerative and just transition.

Within the forum, SIG is a founding member of the Food Cluster of the Climate and Health Coalition, which aims to partner with other members of the food and drink industry to accelerate the transformation of our food and agricultural systems through sharing of best practices, such as our SIG Incubator.

Together with the Food Cluster, we helped build a toolkit for food and drink system businesses that:

• highlights current activity at the intersection of climate, health and food;

• generates case studies to inspire and accelerate action for others; and

• provides guidance on key topics and opportunities for action, including starting or accelerating business action on climate, health and food.

Science Based Target Network (SBTN)

We joined Science Based Target Network in 2023 to ensure that our approach is aligned with the latest guidance and requirements on action and target setting with the Kunming-Montreal protocol on Biodiversity, which in essence contains goals to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 and achieve nature positive by 2050.

This alignment requires an in-depth assessment of potential value chain impacts on nature for the supply chain following the LEAP (Locate, Evaluate, Asses, Prepare) approach (which is almost identical with the TNFD – Taskforce on nature related financial disclosures – framework). This will form the basis for us to define targets which effectively address impact reduction at an appropriate scale in line with our Nature+: Halt biodiversity commitment.

Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE)

SIG is member of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This initiative spans across the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a consortium of industry members. SHINE at MIT focuses on research into Handprints and Net Positivity. Based on the work with SHINE, SIG has co-authored a white paper “Approaching Systemic Transformation – Learnings from applying Net Positive Principles: The case of beverage carton recycling”. Recent research related to nature and biodiversity related footprints and handprints.

WWF Forests Forward

We joined Forests Forward, a signature WWF program for corporate action in support of nature, climate, and people. As well as investing in forest landscapes through Forests Forward, we committed to ambitious goals on the responsible sourcing of forest-based material and to working with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders to support the halting and reversing of forest loss and degradation globally.

SIG is making good progress on the public commitments we have made, including increased transparency on our sourcing geographies, co-organizing a roundtable with actors from the Swedish forest value chain and supporting FSC^TM group certification.

WWF SIG Partnership

Through a five-year partnership with WWF Switzerland, we are investing directly in field projects to create, protect, restore, or improve the management of forest land, with a strong focus on biodiversity.

4evergreen

We actively contribute to 4evergreen, the cross-industry alliance working to boost the recycling rate of fiber-based packaging to 90% by 2030. Our involvement enables collaboration with partners across the value chain to develop recyclability evaluation protocols, circular design guidelines, and improved collection and sorting systems. This work is particularly relevant for our carton packaging, where harmonized standards and shared innovation accelerate practical recycling solutions and enhance circularity. Through 4evergreen, we reinforce our commitment to advancing sustainable packaging systems that keep materials in use and support a low-carbon, circular economy.