Nathan Hoekstra, Coastal Container’s general manager, traveled to the Treetops Resort in Gaylord, MI to attend the 2023 Michigan Sustainability Conference from Oct. 24-25, 2023. The event, hosted by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy...
Our upcoming expansion includes a new railway spur line that allows us to receive our raw material in the form of massive paper rolls instead of corrugated sheets. A single delivery of seven rail cars will replace approximately 48 truck loads of sheets, which produces big savings on fuel and carbon emissions.
The Coastal environment encourages employees to produce meaningful work in partnership with their coworkers. We also push our people to continuously grow–both personally and professionally. Check out Team Coordinator Miranda Steffes’ employee growth story.
As inhabitants of our community, nation and planet, we understand our responsibility to protect the places we do business and the people who live there. 2022 marks our second year of tracking standardized sustainability metrics, and we're excited to share those...
While sustainability has been at the heart of Coastal's business practices since we started this business over 15 years ago, 2021 marks the first year with established, standardized sustainability metrics. We're excited to share with you updates to last year's report...
A Broader Understanding of Prosperity In business terms, prosperity is often measured as profit. But profit is not the purpose of our business—rather, it is how we fund our future and make our business sustainable for all stakeholders. With profit we acknowledge the...
A Holistic Understanding We believe that work empowers people to grow: physically, psychologically and socially. As people satisfy their need to grow, the organization where they work grows too. And the more an organization provides meaningful work, the...
As our industry continues to innovate and incorporate recycled materials into our products, sustainability-minded consumers might assume that the higher the percentage of recycled material, the better or more sustainable the product. However, it might surprise you to...
We make sure that each phase of a container’s production protects our customers and our planet. It’s important to us that our corrugated packaging is an environmentally sound choice: it’s renewable, recyclable, and compostable. Let’s take a closer look at the process....