Century-old Sauce Model Continues Drive Towards Sustainable Packaging
HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 30 September 2026 – Lee Kum Kee Sauce (“Lee Kum Kee”), the century-old sauce model, has been honoured with the Gold Award within the inaugural Packaging Discount Constitution by the Environmental Safety Division (EPD) of the Authorities of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area. Recognised for excellent efficiency in driving packaging discount and sustainable improvement, Lee Kum Kee was among the many first signatories to the Constitution and is among the first cohort of meals producers to obtain the award. The honour displays its function as a accountable company citizen dedicated to advancing sustainable packaging.
Lee Kum Kee receives the Gold Award within the Packaging Discount Constitution.
Launched by the EPD on 31 March 2025, the Packaging Discount Constitution encourages companies to reassess and cut back packaging utilization, foster a waste-reduction tradition within the business sector, and help Hong Kong’s long-term aim of carbon neutrality. Up to now, over 140 firms throughout sectors together with retail, logistics, electronics, and meals & beverage have joined, with Lee Kum Kee being one of many first. Taking part firms endure an annual skilled evaluation for packaging discount, recyclability, reuse/recycling, sustainability, and promotion of packaging discount. Lee Kum Kee demonstrated a number of packaging optimisation achievements in the course of the evaluation course of, finally incomes the Gold Award.
Jan Ling (proper), Vice President – Technical Enterprise Improvement at Lee Kum Kee Sauce receives the award offered by Dr. Chui Ho Kwong, Samuel (left), JP, Director of Environmental Safety Division.
Dodie Hung, Govt Vice President – Company Affairs at Lee Kum Kee Sauce, stated, “This award is a major recognition of Lee Kum Kee’s long-standing dedication to sustainable packaging transformation. Guided by our worth of ‘Si Li Ji Ren’ (Contemplating Others’ Pursuits), we’re dedicated to integrating sustainable improvement into each side of our enterprise operations. By progressive pondering, we constantly optimise packaging design for larger effectivity and recyclability, delivering prime quality, scrumptious and environmentally accountable merchandise to shoppers. Transferring ahead, we stay devoted to collaborating with the trade to help Hong Kong’s imaginative and prescient of attaining carbon neutrality.”
Lee Kum Kee constantly refines its packaging with regards to the Sensible Guides on Packaging Discount and Administration revealed by EPD and the Golden Design Guidelines developed by the Shopper Items Discussion board (CGF), driving packaging weight discount whereas enhancing recyclability and round worth. Since 2002, Lee Kum Kee has constantly diminished the burden of its glass bottles; for instance, in 2025, it minimize the burden of its 32-ounce oyster sauce bottles from 410 to 390 grams, saving 10 tonnes of glass all year long. Moreover, the corporate has saved greater than 200 tonnes of carton materials yearly by means of improved carton designs. Over 95% of packaging supplies, by weight, are recyclable.
Lee Kum Kee’s sustainable packaging was featured within the 2026 Golden Design Guidelines Case Research Booklet in the course of the CGF China Day in early September, confirming that its initiatives align with each native coverage instructions and worldwide finest practices.
For particulars on Lee Kum Kee and sustainability, please check with the Lee Kum Kee International Sustainability Highlights 2025: https://company.lkk.com/en/csr
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About Lee Kum Kee Sauce
Lee Kum Kee Sauce is the worldwide gateway to Asian culinary tradition, devoted to selling Chinese language culinary tradition worldwide. Since 1888, it has introduced individuals collectively over joyful reunions, shared traditions and memorable meals. Beloved by shoppers and cooks alike, Lee Kum Kee Sauce’s vary of greater than 300 sauces and condiments sparks creativity in kitchens in all places, inspiring skilled and residential cooks to experiment, create, and delight. Headquartered in Hong Kong, China and serving over 100 nations and areas, Lee Kum Kee Sauce’s wealthy heritage, unwavering dedication to high quality, sustainable practices and “Fixed Entrepreneurship” mix to allow superior experiences by means of Asian delicacies for individuals worldwide. For extra data, please go to 
www.LKK.com.
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