Key Stakeholders: Shareholders, Suppliers, Customers and Consumers, Government and Civil Society Sectors
Mitr Phol recognizes that high-quality and environmentally responsible packaging plays a vital role in ensuring product quality while minimizing environmental impacts. Effective packaging helps protect sugar from contamination and damage during transportation and storage, reinforcing customer confidence and trust. The Company is committed to using packaging that supports consumer convenience and safety, while facilitating proper sorting, recycling, and disposal at end of life. This approach helps reduce waste sent to landfill and promotes more efficient use of natural resources. To advance circular packaging practices, Mitr Phol has set a target for 100% of its sugar packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2030.
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Packaging is made from reusable, recyclable, and compostable materials.
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95% of total packaging
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95% of total packaging
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Mitr Phol is committed to minimizing the environmental impacts of packaging throughout its life cycle through effective management and innovation, while meeting the diverse needs of customers and consumers. The Company has established a packaging policy focused on four key areas.
Mitr Phol has developed naturally compostable packaging, initially introduced for its natural cane sugar products. The outer layer is made of kraft paper while the inner layer is made from plant-based bioplastics. These bioplastics protect the product from moisture and naturally degrade after disposal.
In 2025, the Company used approximately 0.10 tons
of compostable packaging materials.
Mitr Phol has designed its sugar packaging to be monomaterial
to make discarded packaging easier to recycle as well as to encourage on phasing out single-use plastic. In 2025, the Company used approximately 7,350 tons of recyclable packaging materials.
Mitr Phol has introduced recycled polyethylene (rPE) in the production of outer packaging bags for non-food-contact applications, blended with virgin plastic to reduce petroleum-based plastic use, minimize plastic waste, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The Company is collaborating with SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (SCGC) under the Packaging Circularity Collaboration project to study and produce PCR (Post-Consumer Recycled) plastic pellets from post-use plastics collected within Mitr Phol sugar mills, for use in manufacturing product wrapping film.
In 2025, Mitr Phol used approximately 11 tons of PCR Resin.
Mitr Phol promotes the reduction of single-use polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic in syrup product packaging. In 2025, the initiative resulted in a reduction of 4 tons of PET plastic use.
Mitr Phol incorporates up to 94% recycled paper in the production of its corrugated carton packaging. The Company also optimizes paper pulp formulations and production processes to reduce paper use and packaging weight while maintaining carton strength. In 2025, Mitr Phol used approximately 1,784 tons of recycled paper and reduced paper use by 102 tons.
Mitr Phol Suphan Buri Sugar Mill implements the PP Bag Reuse Program in collaboration with customers to collect and reuse polypropylene (PP) bags for non-food-contact packaging applications, thereby reducing the demand for new plastic bags. In 2025, the program enabled the reuse of PP bags, avoiding the use of more than 48.6 tonnes of virgin plastic.
Packaging Policy
