Consumers could soon be pouring whisky out of a paper bottle, with a sustainable packaging project nearing completion at
Members of the university's Biocomposites Centre have partnered with global green packaging consortium Pulpex to design a paper bottle for use by a number of global consumer packaged goods companies, including
Made from sustainably sourced, FSC-certified wood pulp, the bottles have been designed to balance functionality and quality with recyclability, and the intention is to create a resilient container which will allow for a long-term shelf-life and simple mass production.
'Working with industry is vital if we are to move forward to the next stage of innovation; The knowledge and support Pulpex has provided has proven invaluable to helping us research and optimise the ideal makeup of the bottle as well as scale up testing to provide more comprehensive results.'
Pulpex is a research and development collaboration between
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