Vanguard Companies has established a set of standards to identify and maintain management’s commitment to quality for its customers, interested parties, employees. These written instructions are used to communicate established methods and procedures for performing and managing work.

Vanguard Companies believes in the importance of incorporating world-class standards with third-party auditing and certification to avoid the risk of green washing. These certifications include:

FDA Registered

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. By being registered FDA Food facility, we can pack/re-pack displays with pet food, dietary supplements and vitamins, candy and snacks, and soft drinks and alcoholic beverages.
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Idealliance G7 Master Facility Qualification

G7 Master status indicates the facility has calibrated certain equipment and systems to G7 gray balance and neutral tone curves and is capable of delivering G7 proofs and print products.

G7® is Idealliance’s global industry-leading set of specifications for achieving visual similarity across all print processes. This indicates our print products are consistent, which helps maintain the integrity of our customers’ brand.
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ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 168 national standards bodies. Through its members, it brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges.

Environmental Sustainability – ISO 14001:2015

This International Standard helps an organization achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system, which provide value for the environment, the organization itself and interested parties. Consistent with the organization’s environmental policy, the intended outcomes of an environmental management system include:
— enhancement of environmental performance;
— fulfilment of compliance obligations;
— achievement of environmental objectives.
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Economic Sustainability – ISO 9001:2015

This International Standard specifies requirements for a quality management system when an organization:
a) needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and
b) aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
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Social Sustainability – ISO 45001:2018

This document helps an organization to achieve the intended outcomes of its OH&S management system. Consistent with the organization’s OH&S policy, the intended outcomes of an OH&S management system include:
a) continual improvement of OH&S performance;
b) fulfilment of legal requirements and other requirements;
c) achievement of OH&S objectives.
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Vanguard believes in the importance of protecting the environment and knowing that the materials we use are sourced in a sustainable manner.

Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) - FSC® C102743 Certification

FSC Chain-of-Custody certification traces the path of products from forests through the supply chain, verifying that FSC-certified material is identified or kept separated from non-certified material throughout the chain. The Chain-of-Custody process ensures the consumer that the FSC-certified products they purchase are coming from responsibly managed sources.
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SFI® Chain-of-Custody Certifications - SFI – 00606

SFI 2022 CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY STANDARD is an accounting system that tracks forest fiber content (certified forest content, certified sourcing, and recycled content) through production and manufacturing to the end product. Vanguard Companies se chain-of-custody certification to track and communicate forest-fiber content using one of three optional approaches for chain of custody: physical separation, percentage, and the credit method (mixed inputs).
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A GMG Corrugated Excellence Company.

Vanguard is taking digital print color management to the next level utilizing GMG’s unique color saving color profile technology called TurboG. These TurboG profiles provide excellent color reproduction along with properly managing ink consumption. GMG’s OpenColor provides the greatest control in color management for digital print with results that truly match conventional print.

GMG’s TurboG ink saving color profiles will also reduce ink usage for the HP C500 thus saving the company resources and reducing its environmental footprint. Vanguard also utilizes GMG’s ColorProof which provides the quickest response to our customers with a content proof that also represents true digital press conditions.

GMG has recognized these efforts by certifying Vanguard Digital Packaging as a GMG Corrugated Excellence Company.

Our Certifications

A GMG Corrugated Excellence Company.