Pactiv Evergreen is an industrial-scale manufacturer with a massive physical footprint - 50 production facilities across six countries, supplying food and beverage packaging that gets used an estimated 5 billion times per week in the U.S. alone. The company operates across North America and Europe, serving foodservice, restaurant delivery, grocery, retail, and industrial sectors through brands like Reynolds, EarthChoice, Greenware, and PlantCarton. That's a sprawling attack surface: OT networks running production lines, IT systems handling supply chain logistics for roughly 14,000 employees, and an e-commerce and customer-facing digital layer supporting a B2B customer base that includes some of the largest food companies on the continent.
For a cybersecurity team, the threat model here cuts across traditional enterprise IT and industrial control systems. You're defending manufacturing operations where downtime hits production schedules and physical output - not just data. The company's scale and sector exposure (critical infrastructure adjacency via food supply) mean regulatory pressure and supply chain security concerns are real operational constraints, not abstractions. Pactiv Evergreen publicly emphasizes investment in research and development and sustainability innovation, which at this scale implies digital transformation initiatives that expand the security perimeter in predictable ways: cloud migrations, IoT on the factory floor, and more integrated vendor ecosystems.
Specific technical domains and tooling aren't publicly detailed by the company. What's clear from the operational footprint is that any security function here needs to span endpoint management across geographically distributed facilities, identity and access governance for a large workforce, OT/IT convergence security, and incident response scaled to a manufacturing environment where the consequences of a breach are measured in halted production lines and disrupted food supply chains, not just encrypted databases.
