Burgopak offers sustainable tree-free fibres for paperboard packaging

Burgopak is a UK-based packaging supplier covering a number of industries including cosmetics and personal care, electronics and confectionary.

The company has entered into a partnership with Be Green that allows it to incorporate the tree-free, compostable pulp offered by the US company into its products.

Be Green’s fibres are manufactured mainly from bulrush plants which are harvested and pulped in its factories in China.

The company has received Cradle-to-Cradle Silver certification for its materials, which is a certification measuring characteristics such as the use of environmentally safe and healthy materials, design for material reutilisation such as recycling or composting, use of renewable energy, and the water used in the manufacturing process.

Environmental soy-based inks ​

A Burgopak product could use 100 per cent of these fibres or its designers could use them for separate, removable parts that can be recycled or composted after use, explained Burgopak’s marketing co-ordinator Jess Macnaught.

In addition, Burgopak has a number of soy-based inks and coatings that are an environmental alternative to traditional materials that can be used with the Be Green fibres, explained Macnaught.

Although Be Green’s fibres have gained cradle-to-cradle certification, Burgopak will not be claiming any certification from their use.

“We ourselves do not hold any certification, only promote the usage of the Be Green renewable fibres that hold the Cradle to Cradle certification,”​ Macnaught told CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com.