Premios internos
Recognizing 2024 Commitments to Build to Last Strategy
Each year, Greif dedicates awards to colleagues for their exceptional performance in pursuit of achieving our missions of Delivering Legendary Customer Service, Creating Thriving Communities, and Protecting Our Future under our Build to Last strategy. Each award recognizes teams that have played an essential role in our journey to fulfilling our vision and purpose.
2024 Dempsey Award for Customer Service Excellence Winners
Winners of the Dempsey Award are recognized for their commitment to providing best-in-class customer service as measured by their Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) scores, Net Promoter Scores (NPS). We are proud to announce that in 2024 our recipients for this award were the CorrChoice Palmyra and Greif Vologda facilities.
2024 Watson Award for Servant Leadership Winners
The Watson Award for Servant Leadership honors Greif’s former President and CEO, Pete Watson and recognizes teams for their actions in serving the needs of others first. In 2024, seven teams were recognized for their outstanding performance, achieving the highest scores on the 2024 Colleague Engagement survey.
2024 Michael J. Gasser Global Sustainability Award Winners
Sustainable Innovation Award:
- El Greif Boxboard and Converted Products team developed the ES Natural folding carton paper grade. The grade is recyclable and compostable and has been certified by the FDA for food contact. ES Natural delivers the performance our customers need while being made from 100 percent recycled fiber.
Energy Excellence Award:
- El Greif Singapur team converted a lithographic coating oven into an internal-lined ends line with an automated spraying system. The project is estimated to save more than 550 MWh per year while improving operational efficiency and capacity.
2024 Chairman’s Safety Award Winners
Chairman’s Safety Award
Annually, we celebrate and recognize our locations that achieved zero safety incidents during the year. In 2024, we recognized 100 locations with the Chairman’s Safety Award, showcasing their unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. With special recognition to the facilities with 10 years or more incident free:
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- Sadat City, Egypt
- Almasfüzitö, Hungary
- Mobeni, South Africa
- Riyadh, Saudia Arabia
- Tri-Sure Vreeland, Netherlands
- San Juan, Argentina
- Huizhou, China
- Vung Tau, Vietnam
- Mombasa, Kenya
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Volgograd, Russia
- Vologda, Russia
- Mandra, Greece
- Beloyarsky, Russia
- Kazan, Russia
- Midland Warehouse, USA
- Omsk, Russia
- Amatitilan, Guatemala
Safety Pioneer Award
For the first time, Greif awarded facilities with the Safety Pioneer Award, recognizing impactful environmental, health, and safety improvements and innovations globally. We recognized one facility within each of our seven Strategic Business Units.
- Boxboard & Converted: Arlington, Texas – tube handling improvement
- Containerboard & Corrugated: CorrChoice Cincinnati – forklift proximity alert system
- Intermediate Bulk Containers: Houston, Texas – Safety Champion of the Month program
- Integrated Solutions: Tri-Sure Amsterdam – mezzanine gate safety improvement
- Large Plastics: Lockport, Illinois – bump cap implementation
- Small Plastics: Cosmo, South Africa – GEMBA leadership walk cards
- Steel: Sadat City, Egypt – paint booth guarding and safety improvements
2024 North America Waste Diversion Award Winners
Facilities in North America that had not yet met the 2025 goal of diverting 90 percent of waste from the landfill were invited to a friendly competition to divert more waste. With the extra emphasis put on these sites, an additional 13 sites are now reaching the 90 percent diversion goal. Winners earned a plaque for their site, and the top winners earned a catered lunch.
Ganadores anteriores del premio Michael J. Gasser a la sostenibilidad global
Greif concede el Premio a la Sostenibilidad Global Michael J. Gasser desde 2010.
Ganadores del Premio a la Sostenibilidad Global Michael J. Gasser 2023
Our PPS Riverville Facility and CorrChoice were celebrated as our 2023 Michael J. Gasser Global Sustainability Award recipients. PPS Riverville Facility’s was recognized for their collaborative efforts with regulatory bodies on permit improvement, enabling the mill to repurpose rejects as fuel, resulting in a 10 percent reduction in landfill waste compared to the baseline and an estimated cost savings of $120K. CorrChoice implemented energy efficiency initiatives, resulting in nearly $500K in savings and reductions of 3 percent in electricity use and 13 percent in natural gas consumption, propelling them to this award. The initiatives also represent a fully scalable and replicable approach applicable across global facilities.
Ganadores del Premio a la Sostenibilidad Global Michael J. Gasser 2022
- Región GIP LATAM: The Región GIP LATAM completed five impactful projects in 2022 that demonstrate the integration of sustainability into their business success.
- LATAM Tigre completed a project to evaluate all Latin American plants to implement a 6 percent reduction in energy consumption per unit produced compared to the fiscal year 2019 by 2025. The project identified 447 energy focus areas and are now focused on implementing 70 LATAM strategic energy project.
- LATAM Brasil Reducción de las emisiones de carbono y del uso de materias primas mediante la producción de bolsas de plástico con la composición de 10% PCR. El uso de PCR no afecta al rendimiento de las bolsas de plástico.
- GIP LATAM BrasilEl proyecto de innovación de reducción de peso se creó para reducir el espesor de los bidones de acero sin afectar el rendimiento mecánico. Como resultado, el equipo desarrolló un embalaje de acero más ligero y de alto rendimiento que reduce la emisión de CO2 hasta en 12%.
- GIP LATAM Brasil También hemos completado un proyecto que elimina la necesidad de utilizar film estirable sin afectar el rendimiento de paletización de los tambores. El clip para tambores se utiliza para sujetar y asegurar los tambores a los palés para transportar de forma segura nuestros productos en su lugar con film estirable.
- GIP LATAM Colombia developed a 20L jerrycan composed of 100 percent PCR resin. This is the first 100 percent PCR packaging product that meets the quality and performance needs of the lubricants and sanitizing market.
- Grupo de fibra recuperada PPS y la fábrica Austell:El equipo identificó múltiples industrias adicionales que pueden aprovechar los subproductos de la fábrica a través de aplicaciones de alto valor y reutilización que respaldan nuestra estrategia de circularidad. El proyecto reduce nuestra huella de emisiones, la cantidad de desechos que enviamos a los vertederos y los costos de eliminación en los mismos.
- Grupo de productos industriales PPSComo parte de nuestra estrategia de circularidad, nuestra planta de adhesivos de Kernersville devuelve sus contenedores IBC usados para su limpieza y reutilización. Uno de los adhesivos principales se coagula con otros adhesivos cuando se envía al alcantarillado de la ciudad debido a su nivel de pH. Para garantizar que las líneas de alcantarillado de la ciudad no se obstruyan, la planta no puede drenar en las líneas de alcantarillado al limpiar estos contenedores IBC. En su lugar, la planta envió los desechos de adhesivo y el agua de lavado a un vertedero para su eliminación segura. En 2022, el equipo comenzó un proceso de limpieza más eficiente, reciclando y reutilizando el adhesivo y el agua de lavado internamente. También estableció un sistema para neutralizar el pH para que el IBC pueda reciclar su metal y plástico utilizando el proceso estándar de fin de vida útil.
