CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 13, 2026--
AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR), a global leader in drug delivery, dosing and protection technologies, and consumer product dispensing, today announced that it has been named one of the America’s Best Companies 2026 by TIME. Aptar is ranked 83 out of 1000 companies evaluated by TIME and its partner Statista. Aptar is ranked within the top five companies in the Engineering, Manufacturing and Medical Technology category and is ranked in the top 10 companies nationwide for sustainability transparency.
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For this inaugural list, TIME and Statista evaluated the top U.S. based companies on employee satisfaction, financial performance and sustainability transparency.
“We are honored to be among the Top 100 of America’s Best Companies by TIME,” said Stephan B. Tanda, Aptar President and CEO. “We have an 80-year history of designing and manufacturing in the U.S., along with 19 other countries, to improve the lives of millions of people around the world. Our dispensing and dosing technologies deliver medications that treat chronic diseases, bring convenience and security to consumers, and we continually work to make our solutions more recyclable, reusable and sustainable. This recognition also reflects our commitment to helping our employees reach their full potential and supporting the communities where we live and work.”
In addition to being named One of America’s Best Companies, Aptar achieved a Gold EcoVadis ranking, placing Aptar in the top 5% of companies rated by EcoVadis for 2026 and Aptar was named a CDP Supplier Engagement Leader for the sixth consecutive year, a recognition which assesses the company’s awareness of climate change issues, management methods and progress towards action taken on climate change.
“Our team is especially proud to be ranked in the top 10 of all companies for sustainability transparency. For over the last 10 years, Aptar has published an annual sustainability report that aligns to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. We remain focused on making and communicating our steady, measurable progress that reflects both our commitments and the realities of the systems we operate within,” said Beth Holland, Chief Sustainability Officer.
As outlined in the Company’s 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report, “Progress in Motion”, Aptar continues to make meaningful progress across key areas of its global sustainability strategy. As of year-end 2025, 98% of Aptar’s electricity was sourced from renewable sources. Thanks in part to power purchase agreements in Europe and North America for a more localized source of renewable energy, dedicated to Aptar.
For a full list of the America’s Best Companies 2026 and a breakdown of the methodology, please visit the TIMEwebsite.
About Aptar
Aptar is a global leader in drug delivery, dosing and protection technologies, and consumer product dispensing. Aptar partners with the world’s top healthcare and consumer brands to deliver medicines and create exceptional user experiences. Serving diverse markets, from pharmaceutical to beauty to food and beverage, Aptar combines market expertise with proprietary design, engineering and science to develop innovative solutions that help improve lives worldwide. Headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois, Aptar employs 14,000 dedicated people across 20 countries. Learn more at http://www.aptar.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Aptar’s sustainability strategy, supplier engagement and collaboration, emissions-reduction efforts, science-based targets and Carbon Transition Plan, and related expectations regarding lower-carbon alternatives, circularity, supplier performance and transparency. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and by use of words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “future,” “potential,” “continues,” “working,” “support,” “advance” and other similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “should,” “would” and “could,” which are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are based on our beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to us. Accordingly, our actual results or other events may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements due to known or unknown risks and uncertainties that exist in our operations and business environment including, but not limited to: supplier participation, performance, transparency and data availability and accuracy; availability, cost and performance of lower-carbon materials, recycled materials and other alternatives; customer and consumer preferences; product performance, quality or supply chain matters; the regulatory environment, including laws, regulations, standards and reporting requirements relating to climate, emissions and sustainability matters; and competition, including technological advances. For additional information on these and other risks and uncertainties, please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the discussion under “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Form 10-K and Form 10-Qs. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans returned to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairman and key player who served as a crucial ally of President Donald Trump.
Graham, 71, died Saturday evening after a tear in his aorta, according to a statement from his office Sunday. The shocking news came as another prominent Republican senator, former Republican leader Mitch McConnell, has been hospitalized for almost a month. McConnell broke a weekslong silence about his health Sunday, saying he was still recovering after suffering from pneumonia and falling in his home.
The continued absence of McConnell, R-Ky., and the surprise death of the South Carolina senator have shaken Republicans who were already at odds with Trump and stalled on several priorities as they return from a two-week recess. And the reduced Republican numbers in the 53-47 Senate are sure to add confusion to what was already expected to be a chaotic and difficult few months before the November midterm elections.
Despite consolidated power in Washington, Republicans have been unable to move much of their legislation forward as the Senate, House and White House have disagreed on legislative priorities and as Trump has criticized Senate Republicans, in particular, for not passing his legislation to require proof of citizenship for voters. Graham, who was one of Trump’s closest friends in the Senate, often served as a pivotal intermediary.
“He was a great — like a gauge, a temperature gauge of the Senate,” Trump said of Graham on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, noting he had talked to Graham on Saturday. “He could go in and get something approved. He would just get people on his side.”
As the Senate convened Monday, Graham's desk was draped in black cloth and held a vase of white roses, as is customary when a senator dies in office. In his opening remarks, Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said “it's difficult to count the ways in which Lindsey's friendship made this job richer and its burdens lighter.”
Graham "was as loyal as they come and a trusted adviser,” Thune said.
The Senate left town two weeks ago after a rough few weeks for Republicans. Trump blocked senators from confirming one of his own nominees, asked them to fund parts of his White House ballroom project despite opposition and forced them to defend the Iran war even as they questioned the strategy and endgame.
He also refused to sign a bipartisan, election year housing bill that had passed overwhelmingly in both chambers, arguing that they should pass his bill to require proof of citizenship, the SAVE America Act, instead. The housing bill became law Friday at midnight after he declined to sign it but did not veto it.
The alliance between Trump and Senate Republicans has also been weakened after the president endorsed the opponents of two Republican senators who had been reliable votes, John Cornyn of Texas and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Cassidy challenged Trump directly on the Iran war in a Capitol meeting between Trump and Republicans just before they left town.
Republicans return to a number of important agenda items, including the confirmation of Trump’s pick for attorney general, Todd Blanche, and the confirmation of Jay Clayton, whom Trump selected to be director of national intelligence and later temporarily blocked. Both will testify in confirmation hearings this week.
Senate Republicans also must find a way to navigate Democratic opposition and Trump’s continued ire to keep the government open and prevent a government shutdown when the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. Graham was a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, as is McConnell.
Graham also sat on the Judiciary Committee that will consider Blanche’s nomination and is the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, which has been under pressure from House Republicans and Trump to move a budget package with increased defense spending for Iran.
There is also bipartisan legislation to move forward on a package of Russia sanctions that Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut had announced on Friday after an agreement with the Trump administration.
Blumenthal told The Associated Press on Sunday that Graham was “absolutely focused on this moment” as they announced the sanctions package after months of negotiations. He said he hopes Graham’s memory will inspire the Senate to move forward.
“We’ve really reached this moment where all of the stars are aligned and we will be lacking Lindsey’s spectacular advocacy,” Blumenthal said.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., also urged passage of the sanctions bill as they spoke about Graham on the Senate floor Monday.
Senate leaders have not announced how they will honor Graham, who died after a tear in the inner wall of the aorta, called an aortic dissection, related to hardening of Graham’s arteries, according to his office. An official cause of death will be disclosed after toxicological and microscopic testing, his office said.
Graham, a prominent South Carolina Republican and former Air Force lawyer who served in Congress for more than three decades, had just returned from a trip to Ukraine. Thune said it was Graham's 10th trip to the country, and he “died with his boots on.”
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday appointed Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, as his temporary replacement in the Senate. She will serve for the remainder of his term, which ends in January.
A special election will be held next month to pick a new Republican nominee in the general election for Graham’s seat. He had been seeking a fifth term this year.
Possible candidates include three Republicans who fell short for the party’s nomination for governor this year — Rep. Nancy Mace, Rep. Ralph Norman and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Also in the mix is Rep. Russell Fry, who was elected to the House in 2022.
McConnell’s Sunday announcement revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about his health.
The Kentucky Republican, who is retiring in January, said in a statement that he was “briefly unconscious” around the time he was first taken to the hospital in June and has undergone a battery of tests to try to determine what led to his fall. He said he was also treated for mild pneumonia and has been moved to a rehabilitation facility.
“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages,” McConnell said, adding that he is now “regaining my strength.”
He said he cannot return to the Senate “quite yet.”
Notes and flowers outside the office of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2026, after the sudden death of Graham. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
FILE - Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives for a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a reception for the Clemson Tigers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
FILE - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
