This sustainability story is one of many that shows how Olin products, technologies, ideas, and people are having a positive impact on our world.
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE
Olin's Winchester Ammunition used foam tray-style inserts to safely package 50- round boxes of one of our highest volume products.
This package configuration required a bulky, non-sustainable tray in each individual box.
OLIN'S SOLUTION
Our Oxford, Mississippi team introduced new robotic packaging equipment to improve the packaging of this 9mm product.
An "oriented bulk pack" configuration now optimizes volume and material needed for each box.
Additionally, the new equipment provides multiple levels of visual inspection, further improving product quality.
POSITIVE IMPACT
The difference of these efforts lead to: o 50% reduction in glue usage
o 27% reduction in paperboard (cartons)
o 58% reduction in corrugated cardboard (cases) o 45% total reduction in foam trays
This adds up to a 350,000-pound reduction in cartons, trays, cases, and glue per year.
The smaller packaging configuration allows Winchester to ship the same amount of ammunition on pallet that's 200 pounds lighter with 40% less volume.
Now, more than 20 tractor-trailer loads of supplies can be eliminated, reducing 25.8 tons of CO2 emissions, annually.
DID YOU
KNOW?
In 2023, Winchester introduced a new line of environmentally friendly shotshells that utilize bio-polymer wads instead of conventional plastics, eliminating hundreds of pounds of plastic in the environment each year.
Form No. 600-05091-0423
We invite you to follow our Sustainability Journey on www.Olin.com
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Olin Corporation is a vertically integrated global manufacturer and distributor of chemical products and a manufacturer of ammunition. The Company operates through three segments: Chlor Alkali Products and Vinyls, Epoxy and Winchester. The Chlor Alkali Products and Vinyls segment manufactures and sells chlorine and caustic soda, ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomer, methyl chloride, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, perchloroethylene, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, bleach products and potassium hydroxide. The Epoxy segment produces and sells a full range of epoxy materials and precursors, including aromatics (acetone and phenol), allyl chloride, epichlorohydrin, liquid epoxy resins, solid epoxy resins and systems and growth products, such as converted epoxy resins and additives. The Winchester segment produces and sells sporting ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, industrial cartridges and clay targets.