Through close and enduring collaboration BillerudKorsnäs and Tetra Pak aim to push the figure of renewable material from wood fibre in carton packages towards 100%. Already today the figure is about 70%. New innovations to further increase the sustainability of packages are since long top of the agenda for both companies.
“Our mission is to challenge conventional packaging for a sustainable future. 70% renewable is a good start, and the only way that we can solve the major sustainability challenges we face is to do it together,” says Malin Ljung Eiborn, Director Sustainability and Public Affairs.
The collaborative innovation takes the form of a number of defined projects where experts from the two companies work together. BillerudKorsnäs also work together under the auspices of Treesearch, a Swedish collaboration platform for fundamental research, knowledge and competence-building in the field of new materials and specialty chemicals from forest raw material. It involves academia, industry, private foundations and the Swedish government, and aims to turn pioneering fundamental research into high-tech innovations to meet the climate challenge.
"We want a package that is hundred percent from renewable resources. We need a lot of innovation to find these new materials that can create a good barrier. We have to act together to transform the industry. And there are so many challenges, so much innovation to do,” says Eva Gustavsson, Vice President Materials & Package at Tetra Pak.
Tetra Pak is the world's leading food processing and packaging solutions company.
BillerudKorsnäs is one of the leading manufacturers of packaging paper made from virgin fibers.
