End-of-life solutions for wood
Quadpack’s Woodacity range includes lipstick tubes, compacts, jars, lotion packs and closures for perfume bottles.
It’s made using wood from sustainably managed European forests, with optional PEFC or FSC certification. The company also highlighted that it’s created using renewable energy and its temperature control and wood-drying ovens are fuelled by a biomass boiler using production scrap.
Wood category lead Denisa Stircea said part of the motivation to create Woodacity was "to optimise the end-of-life solution for wood as best as we could.”
Aptar launched a pump made from sugar cane waste in Brazil.
Aptar’s LATAM marketing and innovation director, Marcello Santarelli, said: “The current technology for bio-based allows for the making of PE resins. We implemented a bio-based HDPE in the outer finishing parts of a dispenser pump – the ones that interact with the consumer and allows the pump to be actuated.”
SABIC joined forces with Stella McCartney Beauty and three French plastic converters – Texen, Leygatech and STTP Emballage – to create a set of containers for skin care and eye care products that were produced using up to 90% certified renewable polymers.
The containers were launched in the UK and North America markets and feature three SABIC polyolefin resins with a combined mass-balanced certified renewable feedstock content of up to 90%. The container heads are moulded in an impact resistant SABIC HDPE polyethylene (PE) material by Texen.
Italian plastic fabrication company Plastigraf Trevigiana changed from a petrochemical-based laminate and film in their packaging to NatureWorks Ingeo, which is made from annually renewable and locally abundant crops, like corn or sugarcane. It’s compostable and certified recyclable — plus it uses less water than its petrochemical counterparts and has a smaller carbon footprint.
Finnish packaging company Sulapac makes bio-based materials using recycled and ‘side-stream’ content (by-products and process waste from manufacturing) to create packaging for beauty products.
It collaborated with French packaging company Texen Group to provide customised cosmetic packaging made of bio-based materials, such as injection moulded caps and closures.
TricorBraun’s sustainable paper-based packaging uses proprietary technology to reduce packaging waste with smart material usage, while ensuring product protection. The package option is delivered to your facility ready-to-fill and has been rigorously tested to ensure package strength and durability.
Virospack created a fully plant-based dropper cap in partnership with bio-based materials startup Rezemo, using ‘Forewood’ material that’s certified from sustainable forestry (PEFC), one hundred per cent plant-based compostable, and with no use of fossil resources. The bulb is made with fifty per cent biobased TPE and the pipette is made with Tenite bio-based plastic.
Quadpack created a mono-material cork cap especially for a scent launched by the French children’s clothing brand Petit Bateau. The material was sourced from sustainably managed forests and wood category lead Denisa Stircea said it is made entirely of cork, with no plastic inserts in the cap.
