Launched Bornewables polypropylene made from sustainable livestock
Borealis has confirmed collaboration with Paccor and Froneri to enable the first polypropylene ice cream brand packing material with renewable feedstock derived from waste and residue streams. These mono materials used in packaging are 100% recyclable. This partnership is to showcase the Borealis EverMinds spirit of acting to enhance the movement of plastics’ circularity.
Borealis, a global leader in renewable chemicals and materials solutions, has announced its partnership with Froneri (Finland), an ice cream company, and Paccor (Germany), a packaging specialist, to support the transformation of Aino, an ice cream brand, to a biodegradable offering.
It has enabled Aino packaging tubs and lids to be molded in Bornewables polypropylene made from sustainable livestock. It has been certified by the mass balance accounting under the International Sustainability and carbon certification plus scheme. This new partnership between all three Borealis, Froneri, and Paccor is setting an example for implementing creative and responsible packaging to further the transformation of the plastic industry to move towards a circular economy.
The new Aino ice cream container, according to Peter Voortmans, Borealis’ global commercial director of consumer products, is an ideal example of what can be accomplished through partnership to revolutionize the plastics sector on its path to carbon neutrality.
He said that they were proud of their contribution towards the success of this joint project that confirmed how the Bornewables polymers made with high-quality materials perfectly fit in the packaging solutions.
This sustainable content is certified by a mass balance under ISCC Plus, allowing easy traceability from the manufacturing process to the ultimate application. The brand owners can also note down the certified sustainable content with a label or molded-in info on the packaging helping consumers make a proper choice.
Froneri is the first ice cream company to get the ISCC Plus certification in the packaging market. It is planning to extend the Bornewables polymers to multiple brands across Europe.
Aino ice cream made in Finland is linked with the quality, trust ability, and environmental sensitivity of products where the values of living together with nature are deeply rooted in the people’s DNA. These values have been an inspiration for renewable-based packing.
Charlotta Lindberg, senior brand manager at Froneri, told Borealis that sustainability is crucial for them with the factory and production connected to it. Their ice cream factory in Turenki is working to make continuous improvements and become more renewable, for example, switching to sustainable energy to make win-based electricity and carbon-neutral heating.
Bornewables PP by Paccor injection molded the new Aino ice cream packaging tubs and lids in an integrated process with in-mold labeling embellishment, making this revolutionary monomaterial packaging 100% recyclable. The renewable material is a highly efficient drop-in solution for the partners’ production and packaging lines, requiring no additional adjustments. Simultaneously, it aids in the reduction of their carbon footprint.
The Bornewables material satisfies all functional requirements for durable and safe food-contact packaging that can be frozen while also meeting rising customer demands to reduce packaging’s climate effect and the possibility of fossil depletion.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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