REDUCE, REUSE & RECYCLE
Our Vision And Our Commitment
- Reduced resource consumption by better efficiency
- Reuse of products
- Recycling and conversion of materials
Our Commitment
FROMM is committed to using environmentally friendly resources where possible.
At FROMM Packaging Australia, we believe we have a responsibility to reduce our business’s environmental impact as much as we possibly can.
Every day, secure and reliable packaging ensures the safe transport of goods around Australia and the world. From agriculture to construction, manufacturing to healthcare, packaging is critical to the smooth operation of our most essential industries.
Our industry is striving to create packaging solutions that use fewer resources and generate less waste, to ensure a sustainable future for packaging. It’s a challenge we’ve embraced at FROMM over the past two decades – innovating our products and processes to reduce their environmental impact, while making sound business sense for our customers.
Our approach to sustainability at FROMM is simple: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
While sustainability has always been a part of FROMM’s story since the business’s inception in 1947, our journey began in earnest in 2005 when we led the industry forward on recycled material mixes, by manufacturing PET straps from 98% recycled materials. Since then, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle has become our mantra, guiding our approach to product design, customer service and facility operations.
To Achieve The Best Possible Reduce, Reuse And Recycle Outcomes In Our business, We:
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Prioritise efficiency: When processes and products are more efficient, everyone benefits – the environment, our customers, our team, and the bottom line. We optimise for highest-possible performance with the least inputs and raw resources, eliminating unnecessary steps, reducing waste, and streamlining operations.
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Employ life-cycle thinking: Our products and parts are designed to last longer; and when that life is over, to be used in a different way through recycling or reprocessing. From the very start of the creation process, we assess our products’ entire lifecycle – from design through to manufacturing, distribution, usage and end-of-life.
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Innovate: Our skilled technicians draw on FROMM’s eight decades of industry expertise along with the latest technologies and concepts, to test and develop new products – never compromising on product quality, and meeting our customers’ needs.
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Collaborate: We actively work alongside our customers, involving them in our in-house testing facilities to trial concepts and products to meet their specific needs. This collaborative and evidence-based approach allows us to design solutions that not only reduce environmental impacts, but are efficient and fit-for-purpose.
Learn more about Reduce, Reuse and Reuse at FROMM by looking at our Sustainability Strategy
By supplying our customers with efficient, well-designed products and smart material-machine combinations that meet their precise needs, we reduce material use and waste through the product lifecycle, support our customers to meet growing expectations for more sustainable packaging, and significantly reduce our customers’ costs on materials usage, shipping and waste disposal.
Australian-first PET strapping made from up to 98% recycled plastic bottles.
FROMM is the first packaging supplier in Australia to offer PET strapping made from plastic bottles – designed and manufactured via our own in-house closed loop recycling system. Using materials from FROMM recycling plants and produced on state-of-the-art extrusion lines, our PET straps aren’t just made from recycled materials – they’re also fully recyclable, capable of being reprocessed and reused again and again.
One-stop shop for all your protective packaging needs.
FROMM offers a range of in-box and on-box packaging solutions suitable for all types and sizes of Australian business. These include our patented void fill air cushions, made of 99% air to reduce raw plastic materials, weight and shipping costs. We also offer biodegradable films, 100% recyclable paper tape, HDPE/LDPE bubble film, and dunnage export bags made from recycled and recyclable materials.
Supported by our country-wide team of FROMM service specialists.
A FROMM product is not just a purchase – it’s a commitment from our business to yours. Our energy-efficient tools and machines are designed to be with you for the long haul, with low-wear parts that can be easily disassembled for repair, replacement and recycling. To further reduce our customers’ cost of ownership of FROMM machines over their lifetimes, we offer a standard 24 month warranty, as well as the option for regular service support via our “Lifestyle Care” program, delivered by our country-wide, on-the-road team of FROMM specialists.
Our Facilities
Running our facilities efficiently not only reduces our impact on the environment – producing less waste, and using less energy and water – it makes smart business sense, saving time and money. Measures implemented across FROMM’s global operations include solar energy installation, controlled water circulation, reuse of waste heat, and comprehensive waste recycling.
In Australia, our sites are primarily focused on product distribution. In 2024 our 5,000m2 Brisbane warehouse became the first to be installed with solar, providing the site with 100% of its energy needs. We are currently looking to also expand solar to our Sydney location.
Our People And Our Communities
FROMM believes that looking after people starts with supporting and protecting our team – from opportunities for continued education and regular training, to ensuring safe and fair working conditions at our sites.
Beyond our business, we also empower our people to give back to their local communities – by financially supporting participation in charity events that are aligned with their personal stories and passions.
While we keep working to reduce our environmental impact each day, we know there’s a long road ahead to a sustainable packaging future.
While we have made good progress over the past two decades at FROMM, industry-wide collaboration and knowledge-sharing will be crucial to our collective long-term success.
In 20XX, we worked with Woolworths to upskill their food and grocery suppliers to improve the packaging of incoming goods. Not only did this help suppliers to better meet receivables protocols – greatly improving efficiency at Woolworths’ distribution centres – it educated suppliers on secure and appropriate packaging practices, reducing unnecessary waste and damage to products.
We then joined the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) in 2023, currently 2,300 members strong and growing. Learn more about APCO’s sustainable packaging goals here, and our annual APCO reports below.
We invite you to join us on our sustainability journey by following our updates on this page. If you have any questions about sustainability at FROMM, get in touch with our team at info@fromm-pack.com.au.
FAQs
FROMM’s PET strapping is made from 98% recycled material. Our performance stretch films are made from virgin material, but we also have a range of hand and machine films that contain 30% PCR resins.
Some of our smaller protective packaging solutions contain recycled material, such as our dunnage export bags. Contact our team at info@fromm-pack.com.au for more information if you’re looking for a specific product containing recycled materials.
All FROMM products are marked with their relevant recycling codes, so that our customers can easily sort and manage their packaging waste.
In Australia, recycling and waste processing is managed differently between council areas, states and waste management providers – meaning that there are currently no universal guidelines for disposing of packaging waste in Australia. To better understand what options are available in your location, we recommend that our customers consult with their waste management provider and/or relevant governmental bodies.
All of FROMM’s products are designed according to the principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – with ‘Reduce’ being our first and highest priority.
‘Reduce’ means innovating to reduce the raw material and inputs required to manufacture our products. It means innovating for efficiency, so that our tools and machines consume less energy and last longer. ‘Reduce’ also means working with our customers to find smart material-machine combinations that meet their precise needs, and then helping them to use those products correctly – cutting down on material usage, unnecessary waste, and saving costs.
While we are continually innovating to reduce the amount of plastic and unrecyclable materials in our products, at a technical level, certain products are currently very difficult to produce using recycled or part-recycled content – especially without compromising on quality and performance. While progress is being made, many innovative recyclable materials that are currently in development or are on the market are cost-prohibitive and not yet suitable for commercial scale.
This is an area we are working on actively, and will continue to evolve as technology advances and more solutions become available.
The first and simplest way we can help you is by auditing your current packaging systems to understand if they are running as efficiently as they can, and are fit-for-purpose. We can then test any recommendations for containment or performance improvements at FROMM’s R&D centre and tilt testing facilities.
Many of our customers discover through this process that significant savings can be realised – in the past, we’ve helped customers save on materials and costs up to 40%.
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