CooperVision recognized during 2025 Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association Awards

Previously, CooperVision won an award in 2024 for its Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) project in Juana Diaz. Image credit: AdobeStock/kasto

The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association (PRMA) has recognized CooperVision’s Juana Diaz manufacturing facility for its achievements in sustainability and occupational health and safety.¹ For the 13^th consecutive year, the company was honored during the 2025 Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association Awards, which presented the company with the PRMA President’s Award, Platinum Recycling Award, and recognitions in Leadership in Environmental Performance, according to a news release.

“Year after year, these awards are a celebration of our team’s longstanding dedication to maintaining high standards and consistently raising the bar,” said Rolando Torres, chief operations officer at CooperVision, in the release. “The PRMA’s continuous focus on progress keeps us moving forward and making a positive impact on our workplace, our community, and the planet.”

The President’s Award recognized CooperVision for maintaining a workplace injury and illness rate below the national average for other comparable industrial operations. The Platinum Recycling Award recognizes a company for diverting more than 90% of non-hazardous waste from landfills.¹

For the Leadership in Environmental Performance recognition, CooperVision received the Eco Label Certification and the Eco Label LEED Gold Certification. The Eco Label Certification was given to the company for achieving LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council and Zero Waste Facility Program Certification through SCS Global Services. The latter certification is in recognition of compliance, operations, conservation, and environmental protection, in addition to partnerships with Environmental Excellence Programs including the EPA Energy Star, LEED, Zero Waste to Landfill, Zero Liquid Discharge, and other awards that are evaluated and granted by an independent agency.¹

Previously, CooperVision won an award in 2024 for its Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) project in Juana Diaz. This project utilized more efficient generators than conventional on-site diesel, natural gas, or propane-powered generators. The CHP is natural gas-fueled, which captures and reuses excess heat and avoids distribution losses, according to CooperVision.¹

The company also commits to sustainability efforts in the ways of conserving natural resources with renewable options, collecting manufacturing waste and giving it new life by way of recycling, and offsetting waste from products and packaging that cannot be reclaimed. CooperVision currently partners with Plastic Bank in order to offset a portion of the company’s plastic footprint, in addition to purchasing ISCC PLUS-certified plastic.² In April 2025, the company announced that its partnership with Plastic Bank had prevented the equivalent of more than half a billion plastic bottles from entering oceans on an international scale. These products that were collected and recycled in part of the initiative, which began in 2021, include soft contact lenses and blister and packaging components.³

References:

1. CooperVision honored for sustainability and occupational safety excellence at 2025 Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association Awards. News release. CooperVision. July 24, 2025. Accessed July 25, 2025.

2. A brighter tomorrow starts with all of us, today. CooperVision. Accessed July 25, 2025. https://coopervision.com/about-us/coopervision-sustainability

3. CooperVision’s plastic neutrality initiative reaches remarkable half-billion bottle milestone. News release. CooperVision. April 17, 2025. Accessed July 25, 2025. https://coopervision.com/our-company/news-center/press-release/coopervisions-plastic-neutrality-initiative-reaches-remarkable-half-billion