Our Sustainability Mission & Commitment
Sustainability at Paragon Films goes beyond producing the industry’s thinnest stretch film—a superior product that significantly reduces waste. Sustainability Without Sacrifice™ is about empowering our clients to achieve their sustainability goals without sacrificing performance or cost savings. We are minimizing our environmental footprint and passionately leading others with integrity and excellence to do the same to secure a better future for our communities, customers, shareholders, employees, and their families.
At Paragon Films, we are deeply committed to conducting our engagement activities in alignment with global environmental treaties and policy goals. Our dedication to sustainability is reflected in every aspect of our operations, from product development to community outreach. We actively collaborate with international partners to ensure our practices support the objectives of key environmental agreements, such as the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By integrating these global standards into our strategic planning and daily operations, we strive to minimize our environmental footprint and contribute to a healthier, more sustainable future for all.
At Paragon Films, sustainability isn’t just part of what we do, it is the foundation of who we are. Every product we engineer, every process we optimize, and every partnership we build is rooted in a deep commitment to environmental responsibility and performance excellence.
Sustainability Without Sacrifice™ captures our belief that businesses shouldn’t have to choose between performance, cost-efficiency, and environmental stewardship. Our clients deserve solutions that deliver all three, and we’re here to make that possible.
What does it mean?
- Without sacrificing performance: Our ultra-high-performance stretch films and certified PCR films are engineered to be thinner and stronger, reducing material use while maintaining load integrity.
- Without sacrificing cost: Lower cost per pallet wrapped and improved efficiency, translating to real savings.
- Without sacrificing the planet: Our lifecycle approach to product design minimizes virgin plastic waste and carbon footprint, supporting circularity and responsible resource use.
Most importantly, the new slogan differentiates Paragon Films as an innovator and leader, providing superior quality products to help customers meet EPR law requirements without sacrifice.
How We Deliver on This Commitment
We integrate the best resins, latest technology, and top talent with visionary problem-solving skills into every stage of our product lifecycle, from formulation to end-user application. Our stretch films are among the thinnest in the industry, helping customers reduce landfill waste and carbon emissions while improving operational efficiency.
We also invest in:
- Post-consumer recycled content: Our Beyond PCR™ films contain 25% certified recycled material, verified by SCS Global Services.
- AI-powered systems: These tools help us reduce energy use and emissions across our facilities.
- Waste recovery programs: Guided by Operation Clean Sweep, we’re committed to keeping plastic out of waterways and landfills.
Why It Matters
Why Does Paragon Films Report to the CDP?
We hope that through our disclosure to CDP, we can better understand and better our impact on the environment. By disclosing, we are prepared to handle the increasing demand for environmental transparency from investors, customers, and policymakers.
In 2025, we received a B for 2024 disclosures. More details can be found on the CDP website.
18,700
companies disclose through CDP, representing half of global market capitalization.
680+
financial institutions worth US$130+ trillion in assets that support CDP’s requests for data.
95%
of companies use environmental metrics, including CDP data, in procurement processes or plan to within two years.
Our Commitment to Developing Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Stretch Film
Using PCR in our stretch films is a development effort our R&D team is actively working on. Our newest hand film, Power Edge PCR™, takes reducing virgin plastic use to the next level. By replacing the amount of virgin plastic used in the film with post-consumer recycled content, we are helping our customers with their sustainability goals.
Paragon Films remains the leader in providing the most sustainable packaging solutions. Our products help customers reduce the amount of virgin plastics in their transportation packaging. We prove this every day with our industry-leading process, “Destination Secured” and our Client Analysis Reports which specifically identify the sustainability savings.
Our Products and Packaging Components are Easy to Recycle
Did you know every pallet of Paragon Films stretch film we deliver has packaging components that can be recycled? It’s all part of our commitment to sustainability and a “lifecycle” approach to stretch film engineering. Watch our recycling videos to learn everything you need to know about recycling the packaging of our bulk handfilm, case packed handfilm, and machine film products.
A Message from Paragon Films CEO Darin Tang
Sustainability is not a department at Paragon Films. It is embedded in how we innovate and operate. Our slogan “Sustainability Without Sacrifice” means customers never have to choose between performance, cost efficiency, or environmental responsibility. We continue to design films that secure loads while reducing material use and carbon footprint; we invest in technologies that boost efficiency and reliability; and we disclose our progress to leading frameworks.
What sets Paragon Films apart is our unwavering focus on our people, our polymers, and our process. Our people bring the character, curiosity, and commitment that fuel continuous improvement. Our polymers are engineered through deep material science expertise that enables higher performance, greater consistency, and more circularity across our entire portfolio, while making them more efficient and better suited for recycling.
Our process, refined through discipline, data, and innovation, ensures that quality and sustainability are built into every roll we manufacture. Together, these strengths define who we are and why customers trust us to deliver Sustainability Without Sacrifice™.
We doubled down on product circularity with certified PCR offerings and expanded our supplier sustainability engagement. Our teams in Operations, R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and Marketing worked together to turn ideas into measurable improvements from line efficiency and waste prevention to packaging recyclability and customer education.
Across the world, EPR legislation is elevating expectations for recyclability, transparency, and recovery. We support that direction and are preparing ultra-high-performance films that fit today’s recycling streams. Together with our customers and partners, we’re not just making better stretch films, we’re building a better future.
Darin Tang
