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Our Achievements in Sustainability

Lipa understands the requirements of sustainability extend further than our environmental footprint. Hence we strive to make a positive impact on our community and our employees.

Energy Efficiency

Lipa has upgraded the pumps and control system for our chillers, reducing our energy use. This is a saving of over 155 tonnes of CO2 annually.

Re-use of our Waste

Reusing materials is the best outcome for the environment. We now send 30 tonnes of cardboard per year to be reused directly as boxes, saving scope 3 emissions and avoiding harmful chemical use in pulp mills.

Probiotics HVAC Energy Saving Mode

Probiotic dehumidified high air change system is very expensive to run. Recently installed an energy saving mode to run at lower air changes, while maintain critical conditions when plant is idle.

New Recycling Stream

Recycling Organic Waste and landfill diversion to resource recovery, diverting more than 70% of our original landfill

Reducing Paper Usage

Lipa has been transitioning from paper to electronic batch cards for recording production data, and we have just digitised our warehouse cycle count process. These efforts are collectively saving over 400,000 sheets of paper per year.

SMETA Audit

Undertaken in March 2025. SMETA audit, aimed at understanding standards of labour, health and safety, environmental performance, and ethics within the business

Enhanced Utility Metering

Expansion to our gas, electricity, and water metering equipment, to gain better insight and control of our utility usage and potential for improvement. Awaiting grant response

SBTi program

We are currently working towards tracking our scope 3 carbon emissions, which will allow us to focus on the most effective carbon reduction strategies across all aspect of our business.

Waste Improvements

Continuous improvements to our waste streams have improved our recycling and discharged water quality

Renewable Energy

We have a new 100 kW solar system that provides clean electricity to our site. Our carbon footprint is now reduced by around 90 tonnes of CO2 per year.

Sustainability partnerships

At Lipa, we have advanced our governance structure, by joining world-leading organisations to ensure we are driving positive change throughout all stages of our business.

Sedex is a global membership organization that provides one of the world’s leading online platforms for sharing responsible sourcing data on supply chains, used by tens of thousands of companies to manage their performance around labour rights, health and safety, the environment and business ethics.

Ecovardis is one of the world’s largest and most trusted self-assessment platforms, that helps provide companies with sustainability ratings to help better their structure and governance. Lipa is proud to achieve Bronze level status across various business operations including Environment, Safety, Ethics and Labour Standards.

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) is a not-for-profit organisation that enhances an organisation’s packaging value chain, by developing the insights, resources and programs that are needed to build a sustainable national packaging ecosystem. 

“At Lipa, we understand the growing importance of being socially and environmentally responsible, and our efforts highlight our commitment to sustainability and being a leader within our industry”.

Rob Tanna
Chief Executive Officer