03/03/2021
As part of our efforts to reduce our environmental impact, enhance customer value and reinforce our social responsibility, we are making a packaging change to some of our products.
What’s changing?
From February 2021, our plastic pails will be manufactured from 100% recycled post-industrial waste (PIW). This will result in an estimated 30% saving in CO2 per unit, according to publicly-available calculation models.
The lid of the pails will continue to be made from virgin material due to flexibility and durability requirements, however this positive step will help ensure we as a business are looking to the future and working in-line with our sustainability strategy.
Will these changes affect our customers?
End users will experience absolutely no difference in the strength or quality of the packaging. The only notable change is a subtle switch of colour from white to grey!
Customers can expect to start seeing our new packaging from March onwards, once existing stock has sold-through.
The new design will feature on some of our most popular products, such as Sika Watertight Concrete Powder, Sika WT-200P and Sika UCS Pak. A full list of products updated with the new packaging is detailed at the bottom of this article.
"We’re pleased to have taken receipt of the first consignment of the new recycled watertight tubs. These tubs are now produced using recycled plastic to reduce their carbon footprint, which as a business B P Mitchell Ltd wholeheartedly supports. B P Mitchell are Hertfordshire’s leading recyclers of sand and aggregates, supplying the construction industry in areas including home counties and North London. These materials are recycled at our latest eco aggregate and sand washing facilities based in Welwyn Garden City." Longstanding Sika partner, B P Mitchell Ltd
Sika’s sustainability strategy
As a global operation, it’s important that we take steps such as this one to honour our responsibilities to sustainability.
Our ‘More value – less impact’ sustainability strategy has the aim of enhancing utility and reducing impacts.
To achieve this, we pursue six strategic target areas:
- Economic performance
- Sustainable solutions
- Local communities/society
- Energy
- Waste/water
- Occupational safety.
Through our products, systems and solutions, we strive to create long-term benefits and added value for our stakeholders and significantly reduce resource consumption and the impacts associated with production processes.
For more information on Sika’s Sustainability strategy, please click here.
| Sika Watertight Concrete Powder | Sika WT-200 P | Sika UCS Pak |
| Sika AIR Pak | SikaPile Pak | SikaTard Pak |
| SikaStabilizer Flow-100 | SikaStabilizer Light-100 | SikaStabilizer Pile-100 |
| SikaStabilizer Pump-100 | SikaStabilizer-100 UWC | Antel Tanking Slurry |
| PermaCem Anchor Grout | Permaseal Taking Slurry | PurCem Amine |
| Sikafloor-31 PurCem (C) | Watco Flowpatch Sub Zero |