Our mission and ethical charter

Our Values - Our Ambition - Why an ethical charter - The whistle-blowing system

Our Mission:
To protect, preserve and promote Nature's bounty and our clients’ products with safe, effective and recyclable metal packaging.

Our reason to believe: Metal packaging is nature's best armour, offering an array of advantages over other packaging materials: it is cost-efficient, simple to fill and simple to use, resistant over time and robust, as well as being genuinely recyclable (recycling rate reached 76.9% in Europe in 2022, according to Eurostat). It is the most effective packaging solution available, with a bright future ahead:

● to avoid wasting the world’s precious food resources

● to protect, preserve and promote food products without consuming energy

● to preserve natural resources and foster the emergence of the circular economy

● and all while remaining affordable and practical for everybody, all of the time

Our Values:

Our fundamental, unwavering values are dtermined by our commitment to people first and foremost: our employees, our clients and their consumers of all ages.

Our goal is to be:

● Humane: We provide our employees with a working environment which is safe, pleasant and rewarding. We accept no compromises when it comes to the safety of our work stations. We strive to treat our employees openly and fairly, with respect for their dignity and integrity. We do not tolerate discrimination in any form. We are committed to nurturing the involvement and engagement of our employees, encouraging them to contribute to our improvement efforts.

● United in our responsibility for the Safety and Quality of our packaging materials: Our packaging solutions protect the products that consumers put on their plates, and the plates of their children. With this in mind we cannot afford the slightest defect, and each and every one of us bears a responsibility for ensuring the absolute safety, quality and non-toxicity of all of our products. Quality is the key to our future.

● Committed and connected to our clients: In a world which is constantly changing, we aim to set ourselves apart from the crowd with our responsiveness, our proximity and our flexibility, adapting to the requirements of our clients and consumers and working together in a spirit of sustainable collaboration.

● Creating value internally and externally: Our work is based on a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation, a philosophy which is non-negotiable as we seek to progress, to offer competitive prices to our clients and to retain our status as a major independent player in the market. We invest constantly in developing the skills of our employees, as well as optimising our production facilities.

● Respecting the environment: Our packaging solutions help to reduce food waste, and are made with metal which is genuinely and endlessly recyclable. We bring all these benefits to bear to optimise the use of natural resources and become part of a circular economy approach. As part of those efforts, we strive to reduce the strain on biodiversity and the climate impact caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Our approach also targets the direct and indirect impacts of our business activities.

Our Ambition:

We want to promote metal packaging and its benefits, making it the preferred solution of modern consumers. We also aim to be our clients’ preferred supplier by guaranteeing them packaging solutions that are:

● 100% safe in terms of food security, hygiene and quality, protecting their products and their consumers

● Attractive tools for promoting their own products

● Cost-competitive, delivering sustainable profitability throughout the whole value chain

● Delivered with the shortest lead times on the market, keeping pace with new consumer trends

● Genuinely recyclable, designed and produced to minimise our environmental impact and protect our planet.

Why publish an Ethical Charter?

In this Charter, Massilly sets out the ethical values that underpin its mission of corporate social responsibility. As part of that mission, Massilly makes a commitment to involve all its representatives, employees, and other third parties to whom this Charter is disseminated.

Furthermore, Massilly has implemented policies and set out specific guidelines to help them adopt the best possible practices.

Beyond its in-house organisation, Massilly aims to bring together its value chain by fostering and promoting engagement among the stakeholders to whom this Charter is disseminated.

Massilly intends that its partners be made aware of this Charter and see to its implementation through their own commitments.

Find all the details on Respect for People, Safety, the Environment, Quality and Business Ethics in the full text of our charter:

DOWNLOAD OUR ETHICAL CHARTER

The whistle-blowing system

Massilly has established and maintains a unique whistle-blowing system aimed at gathering any report of practices that are illegal or non-compliant with this Charter. Such an alert may be raised by Massilly employees or third parties by sending a message to the following address:
ETHIC@MASSILLY.COM

This whistle-blowing system is supplementary to the usual reporting channels and offers specific protective guaranties for whistle-blowers.

Massilly encourages the use of this system to promote an ethical work environment.

This whistle-blowing system (published here) is covered by an internal procedure which sets out its scope of application, legal basis and practical implications, issued to all employees.