INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 8,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardagh Glass Packaging –
North America (AGP – North America), a business of Ardagh Group,
has collaborated with Ste. Michelle Wine Estates to transition to
ECO Series® sustainable glass packaging
options.
For nearly 25 years, the two companies have partnered to
implement sustainable solutions to protect the environment,
including the most recent initiative of transitioning to Ardagh's
ECO Series glass bottles. This innovative series provides all the
sustainability advantages of glass – a neutral and inert material
that is infinitely recyclable – while maintaining high quality,
enhancing customer appeal and lessening the overall impact on the
environment.
"With a passion for sustainable practices and protecting the
environment, Ardagh Glass Packaging values partnering with
customers like Ste. Michelle Wine Estates," said John T Shaddox,
Chief Commercial Officer for Ardagh Glass Packaging – North America. "Utilizing our ECO Series
bottles, which meet the highest standards in technical and
aesthetic quality for glass packaging, we are pleased to help Ste.
Michelle achieve its sustainability goals."
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the largest winery in the Pacific
Northwest and among the largest premium wine companies in the U.S.,
has long valued sustainability and protecting the environment.
By transitioning one traditional glass bottle into Ardagh's ECO
Series glass bottles, Ste. Michelle was able to reduce its
environmental impact and annually save the equivalent of:
- Greenhouse gas emissions from 237 gasoline-powered cars driven
in a year
- CO2 emissions from 214 homes' electricity use for
one year
"Making sustainable packaging choices, like selecting the ECO
Series glass bottles for our portfolio of wines, is a highly
impactful change we can make towards reducing our overall carbon
emissions," said Juan Muñoz-Oca, Ste. Michelle's Chief Winemaker,
who also leads the organization's sustainability practice. "Not
only does it make good business sense, but perhaps most
importantly, it's the right thing to do."
Throughout 2022, Ardagh Glass Packaging will celebrate
the United Nations International Year of Glass
(IYOG), commemorating the essential role of glass packaging in
a sustainable society.
In this IYOG, AGP – North
America is focused on honoring customers like Ste. Michelle
Wine Estates for its extensive history in using sustainable glass
packaging.
For more than 125 years, Ardagh has been producing innovative,
100 percent and endlessly recyclable glass bottles in the U.S., and
offers a wide selection of premium wine bottles in a variety of
colors, sizes, styles and finishes.
To view Ardagh's extensive wine bottle stock portfolio,
including its ECO Series collection, which are all made in the
U.S.A., visit
ardaghgroup.com/wine2022.
Further
information
Gina Behrman, Vice President,
Marketing, Communications & NPD at Ardagh Glass Packaging –
North America,
gina.l.behrman@ardaghgroup.com, 317.558.5717
Paula Polei, Manager, Marketing
& Communications at Ardagh Glass Packaging – North America, paula.polei@ardaghgroup.com,
317.558.5732
Ryan Pennington, Vice President
of Communications at Ste. Michelle Wine Estates,
ryan.pennington@smwe.com
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Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely
recyclable metal and glass packaging for the world's leading
brands. Ardagh operates 65 metal and glass production facilities in
16 countries, employing more than 20,000 people with sales of
approximately $10 bn.
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates is the largest wine
company in the Pacific Northwest and among the largest premium wine
companies in the U.S. With a distinguished history that dates to
1934, the winery now farms more than 30,000 acres across
Washington, Oregon, and California and distributes its wines in over
100 countries. Ste. Michelle Wine Estates pioneered vinifera
winegrowing in Washington and
remains the driving force behind viticulture and enology research
in the state, including the establishment of the Washington State University viticulture and enology
program and the construction of the university's research and
teaching winery, now named the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine
Science Center. The Ste. Michelle Wine Estates portfolio includes
Chateau Ste. Michelle, 14 Hands, Columbia Crest, Erath, H3,
Intrinsic, Liquid Light, Patz & Hall, Northstar, and Spring Valley Vineyard, along
with several other premium brands. The winery also has partnerships
with Marchesi Antinori (Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and Col Solare),
Ernst Loosen (Eroica), and
Michel Gassier (Tenet). Ste.
Michelle Wine Estates serves as the exclusive U.S. importer for
Marchesi Antinori and Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte. For more
information, please visit www.smwe.com.
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