Scottish firm sees growth potential with Minnesota sugar beets providing the key ingredient to create fiber-based barrier packaging that is a PFAS-free alternative to plastics.
This breakthrough packaging design offers a high oxygen barrier, excellent optics, and enhanced puncture resistance while maintaining optimized formability for hot fill and aseptic applications.
Now available in downsized diameters of 13.5-16mm, the tiny tubes expand Neopac’s award-winning line of high-barrier mono-material solutions, and amount to a significant advancement in sustainability-minded high-barrier packaging technology.
With Koehler NexPlus® Tea Aroma and Koehler NexPlus® Tea Flavor, the company is offering two types of heat‐sealable packaging paper with both a grease and oil barrier and a special aroma barrier, which is well‐suited for essential oils and aromatic tea varieties.
As part of Nestlé’s continuous efforts towards more sustainable packaging solutions, the company is launching paper-based innovations across major brands.
Washington State University studies coatings, films and semi-rigid packaging that incorporate biodegradable materials. Utilization of high oxygen barrier polymers and incorporation of oxygen-scavenging chemicals into packaging could reduce the volume of synthetic packaging.
