This is the question that arises after reading the packaging news feeds recently. We have already written more than once about the new developments of PulPac and its partners. And each time new options for packaging made of dry molded fiber appear.

Just recently we wrote about a pilot batch of Baileys, released in bottles made of such fiber, i.e., essentially, in paper bottles. Now a pilot batch of Johnnie Walker Black Label whiskey is being released in similar bottles. For now, it will be distributed between several branded bars. But as we know, behind every successful pilot there is scaling.

This is exactly what PulPac specialists have already started working on together with PA Consulting and Optima. The cooperation concerns the development of special equipment that would allow the use of dry molded fiber to be brought to the industrial scale level. And we are talking not only about bottles made from it, but also about coffee capsules and blister packaging, developments for which are only profitable with further production in large volumes.

PulPac isn’t the only company interested in dry molded fiber, either. Bayer and PAPACKS are also developing biodegradable fiber-based packaging for some of their brands, using molded pulp technology and a plant-based coating. And Huhtamaki previously teamed up with Nestlé to produce paper-based, at-home biodegradable coffee capsules.

Used materials from the sites pulpac.com, packagingeurope.com.