中文Siegwerk, one of the world’s leading suppliers of printing inks and coatings, has published its Sustainability Report 2025 — the company’s first sustainability disclosure prepared with explicit reference to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) that underpin the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Siegwerk adopted the framework voluntarily, choosing to raise its transparency before the rules legally compel it to do so.
The defining feature of the new report is a double materiality assessment built around the ESRS methodology. Rather than treating sustainability as a one-directional exercise in corporate virtue, the assessment examines both how Siegwerk’s own activities affect people and the environment, and how external sustainability developments — regulation, climate risk, shifting customer expectations — affect the business itself. On that basis the company flagged climate change, circular economy, pollution, workforce health and safety, and human rights across the value chain as the topics most material to its strategy.
” The DMA gave us the opportunity to take a structured look at the sustainability topics that matter most to our business and stakeholders,” said Alina Marm, head of global sustainability at Siegwerk. “At the same time, it confirmed that many of the areas we have already been focusing our efforts on will remain priorities going forward.” Marm framed transparency and accountability as precondition rather than ornament for durable commercial success, noting that the report gives stakeholders a detailed view of performance while demonstrating how sustainability is woven into long-term planning.
The numbers offer substance behind the narrative. Against a 2020 baseline, Siegwerk reduced Scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions by 26.5 percent and achieved a 100 percent reduction in market-based Scope 2 emissions, supported by a commitment to source 100 percent renewable electricity across its global operations. The company also launched SustainUP, a supplier-engagement programme that earned the EcoVadis Best Newcomer Award earlier in the year and helped Siegwerk attain EcoVadis Gold status in 2025.
This report also serves as the closing chapter of the HorizonNow 2025 strategy. Across 2021-2025 Siegwerk met four of its six sustainability targets outright and cleared the 50 percent achievement mark on the remaining two. The document now becomes the baseline for HorizonNow 2030, the company’s agenda for the next five years, with circularity and lower-impact chemistries likely to dominate.
For converters and brand owners, the significance runs deeper than one supplier’s scorecard. Regulatory pressure on packaging sustainability is intensifying across Europe and beyond, and raw-material and ink choices are increasingly scrutinised for their full lifecycle impact. A CSRD-aligned disclosure from a major ink house gives label and packaging producers verifiable data they can inherit into their own reporting, reducing the burden of secondary evidence-gathering.
Siegwerk’s voluntary step also reflects a broader shift in the printing supply chain: large material suppliers are racing to standardise sustainability language so that customers can compare claims on a like-for-like basis. As carbon accounting moves from optional marketing to mandatory disclosure, early movers like Siegwerk position themselves as safer long-term partners for converters navigating their own compliance journeys.
The full report is available at sustainability.siegwerk.com.
Source: Labels & Labeling (labelsandlabeling.com), article “Siegwerk publishes CSRD-aligned report,” published 6 October 2026.
The report also underscores how sustainability disclosure is becoming a competitive differentiator in B2B supply relationships. Converters that can point to ESRS-aligned data from their material suppliers reduce their own reporting burden and reassure brand owners navigating tightening packaging regulation. Siegwerk’s early voluntary adoption effectively pre-empts a requirement many peers will face later, buying both credibility and time.
The wider takeaway is that the ink and coatings segment is quietly becoming the compliance backbone of the packaging value chain. As regulators move from voluntary guidance to binding disclosure, the upstream suppliers with the cleanest, most standardised data will be the ones converters reach for first. Siegwerk’s move signals that leadership in this category is shifting from colour science alone to the ability to prove environmental performance across the full lifecycle of a printed product.
For brand owners, the report is a usable template. As Scope 3 accounting spreads down supply chains, verified supplier emissions and material data become prerequisites for tender compliance rather than optional extras. Siegwerk’s transparency therefore does double duty: it meets the company’s own obligations while handing customers a head start on theirs, a quiet but powerful reason to keep the relationship.
The report’s voluntary timing is itself a competitive signal. By publishing ahead of any legal compulsion, Siegwerk positions itself as a partner that reduces risk for the converters and brand owners downstream, rather than one scrambling to comply. In a market where sustainability credentials increasingly decide supplier shortlists, that head start is worth more than the paper it is printed on.
