OliverHCP SustainabilityReport 2022 F WEB SPREADS - Flipbook - Page 5
A Message From
Our CEO
Products That Meet Needs—
and Exceed Them
Sustainability has been defined as “the capacity to endure
in a relatively ongoing way across various domains of life.”
Recently, the pandemic tested our ability to endure in many
ways—and we came through it stronger, more agile, and
better prepared to face an uncertain future.
This thought is never far from each Oliver employee’s mind: The products
we make help save and improve lives.
Our products have a big job to do. One that combines user-friendly
simplicity with life-enhancing technology.
As the global pandemic took hold, our top priority was
making sure that our people were protected and that we
could deliver packaging to ensure the supply of critical
medical devices was not compromised. Throughout the
pandemic, we engaged with experts and benchmarked our safety measures against others,
adjusting our approach when it was needed. We understood the important role we played in
pandemic relief efforts and acted quickly and decisively when the industry needed us most,
all while taking care to protect our employees.
Our products must protect. They must maintain the sterile barrier.
They must consistently make it safely to the point of use.
To that end, our products are designed by using cross-functional
teams that include experts such as R&D engineers, quality
engineers, manufacturing engineers, and regulatory professionals.
Oliver is an essential part of the medical supply chain, and our team is proud to provide
packaging for medical devices, diagnostics, vaccines, and medicines used to treat
COVID-19. Our first responsibility is always to protect patients, but we also strive to
deliver sustainable solutions that minimize our environmental footprint. Since our last
report, we worked on small ways to make a big impact. We asked ourselves how we
could do things differently to minimize waste, reduce energy consumption, and use more
sustainable materials.
Our exclusive focus on the healthcare industry, combined with
strong industry affiliations, enables us to deliver superior, cuttingedge packaging solutions that meet today’s strict regulatory,
time, and cost hurdles. That’s true whether we’re packaging
heart valves or a hip replacement.
We also pursued sustainability in a number of other ways. For example, we embarked on
a journey to modernize our IT systems. This extensive effort will help us utilize resources
more efficiently and reduce waste. The upgrades digitize workflows and replace paper
records with electronic systems, improving efficiency and reducing our consumption of
paper. We’re looking at ways to better manage our power consumption and are evaluating
solar panels to produce some of the energy we use in some of our U.S. facilities, including
those in Pennsylvania and California.
Change often comes slowly to the healthcare industry—and for good reason. At Oliver,
our primary focus will always be on patient safety, delivering the sterile barrier packaging
solutions our customers trust. I’m proud of the deliberate steps we’re taking to accomplish
this in a responsible and sustainable way.
Sincerely,
Michael Benevento
Chief Executive Officer
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