Overcoming legal challenges in plastics and packaging with Quadpack

Addressing current and future legal challenges related to plastics and packaging to anticipate client companies compliance needs.

Situation

Quadpack, a global cosmetics packaging manufacturer, needed to understand and assess compliance with legal requirements for the plastics and packaging it produces and distributes.

Impact

Through a thorough identification of the legal requirements across its operating markets, Quadpack has gained the ability to anticipate its clients’ compliance needs. This ensures that client companies meet all current regulations, but also enables alignment with regulatory deadlines. 

Solution

Sustainable Products & Circularity

Collaborating with Anthesis has been essential in ensuring compliance with current regulations and preparing for future regulatory changes. Their expertise and meticulous approach enable us not only to adapt effectively to legal requirements but also to stay ahead of them, ensuring our products remain compliant and strengthening our capacity to meet new challenges.

Quadpack

Situation

Quadpack is a global cosmetics packaging manufacturer who wanted to better understand and assess compliance with present and future legal requirements for the plastics and packaging it produces and distributes across its markets. This knowledge is essential to anticipate regulatory changes and support its clients in adapting to new legal challenges. 

Solution

To achieve this goal, Quadpack engaged Anthesis to update and ensure compliance with waste, plastics, and packaging regulations across its key markets. This collaboration involved identifying all relevant requirements and effectively integrating them into Quadpack’s operations. 

Anthesis also provided expert guidance, addressing specific inquiries and advising the multinational on current and upcoming compliance needs for both Quadpack and its clients. 

Key legal areas covered included the plastic tax, extended producer responsibility (EPR), substance restrictions, recycled content requirements, as well as design, labeling, and marking standards, among others.

Impact

By thoroughly identifying the various legal requirements applicable in the markets in which it operates, Quadpack has gained the ability to anticipate the compliance needs of its client companies. This will not only enable it to ensure that these companies comply with all the regulations in force, but also to anticipate the deadlines set by the regulatory authorities.    

By offering proactive compliance support, Quadpack will help its clients avoid potential sanctions, enhance their reputation in the marketplace and operate more efficiently and safely.

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