Olin : Packaging Sustainability with Winchester

SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE

1. Olin's Winchester Ammunition used foam tray-style inserts to safely package 50- round boxes of one of our highest volume products.

1. This package configuration required a bulky, non-sustainable tray in each individual box.

OLIN'S SOLUTION

1. Our Oxford, Mississippi team introduced new robotic packaging equipment to improve the packaging of this 9mm product.

1. An "oriented bulk pack" configuration now optimizes volume and material needed for each box.

1. Additionally, the new equipment provides multiple levels of visual inspection, further improving product quality.

POSITIVE IMPACT

1. The difference of these efforts lead to: o 50% reduction in glue usage
   o 27% reduction in paperboard (cartons)
   o 58% reduction in corrugated cardboard (cases) o 45% total reduction in foam trays

1. This adds up to a 350,000-pound reduction in cartons, trays, cases, and glue per year.

1. The smaller packaging configuration allows Winchester to ship the same amount of ammunition on pallet that's 200 pounds lighter with 40% less volume.

1. Now, more than 20 tractor-trailer loads of supplies can be eliminated, reducing 25.8 tons of CO2 emissions, annually.

DID YOU

KNOW?

In 2023, Winchester introduced a new line of environmentally friendly shotshells that utilize bio-polymer wads instead of conventional plastics, eliminating hundreds of pounds of plastic in the environment each year.

Form No. 600-05091-0423

We invite you to follow our Sustainability Journey on www.Olin.com