Stora Enso: An insight into the award-winning bio coffee pack
05 Feb 2019 | Stora Enso
Martin Hammer of Stora Enso offers an insight into the supplier’s super sustainable bio coffee pack during FachPack 2018 in Nuremberg. Boasting high barrier properties, the bio pack can also accommodate nuts, powdered infant formula, fine cut tobacco and other instant drinks.
This is Josh Apo reporting a fact back 2018 in Nuremberg.
I'm here at the store at Enzo stand with my, with Martin Hammer, who will speak to us about this award-winning packaging.
So Martin, what makes this packaging so special?
How did it win an award?
So if you imagine how an ordinary roast and ground coffee packaging looks like, it's mostly a brick pack, which means it's very inconvenient to open it.
You have to use a tool to open it, and once you have opened it, it cannot be resealed.
So with this cut and dry as we call it, we want to overcome this thing, so we offer a hinged lid.
Which can easily be opened and closed and we have a very nice pack out format so it's a cuboid shape fitting in every shelf so it's much more convenient we offer much more convenience to the customer.
Than ordinary roasted ground coffee packaging does.
And how did you achieve such high barrier properties in the packaging?
What we did here is we combined our virgin fiber board with extremely long fibers because we need the foldability together with an aluminum foil to achieve the high barrier requirements that is needed for to pack roast coffee.
So what sort of gains can be made in terms of sustainability?
So, we have many, many benefits just to mention the two of them.
Number one is virgin fiber trees are renewable.
They regrow year after year.
So we work with renewable materials.
And second thing is this can is.
Made is produced during the filling process that means we ship reels to the customer to the filler and the can, the forming of the can, it happens at the filler at our customer.
This means there is no warehousing and not a lot of lorries or trucks needed to ship the pre-made cans to the filler.
So although there we save a significant amount of CO2.
And beyond coffee, what other food and beverage products can be used with this packaging?
It's on the shelf for roasting ground coffee, but it's also possible.
It can also accommodate nuts, for instance, other snacks.
It can.
Accommodate milk powder, so powdered infant formula.
It can accommodate soluble coffee, instant drinks.
There's a whole bunch of products that can be packed with this system.
Is the packaging currently available on the market, and if so, in which regions?
The first, the packaging is available on the market.
It is our first customer was New Coffee Company.
It's part of the Aldi South Group, so you can find it in the Aldi stores in the southern part of Germany, and it is also on the shelf for tobacco, for fine cut tobacco.
From Japanese Tobacco International, so you can find it in Central Europe for tobacco.
So we started with coffee and tobacco, but now we are looking forward to having projects from other branches like powdered infant formula, nuts, snacks, instant drinks, etc.
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OK, thank you for your time, Martin.
Welcome.
Thanks.
