Detpak innovating with fibre-based alternatives

Flexo, offset and digital operation Detpak is developing a range of fibre-based packaging alternatives for its clients, as it leads the charge away from plastic packaging.

The Adelaide-based business is innovating in multiple sectors, and at the Auspack trade show in Melbourne this week it is showing its new fibre-based two-minute noodle cup for San Remo, new fibre-based packaging for fruit and vegetables that is currently being trialled by Woolworths in one of its flagship stores, and new RecycleMe fibre-based packaging.

Romano Bolzon, national group sales manager at Detpak said, “We are working closely with customers. Sustainability is top of mind in food packaging, and Detpak is fully focused on developing packaging solutions that meet the sustainability demands of brands and consumers.”

Already on the supermarket shelves are the new fibre-based two-minute noodle cups for San Remo, replacing the old styroform cups that were not environmentally friendly. The new cups had to go though significant engineering, especially around the rim. Bolzon said, “They also had to meet all the functionality of the old cups. Detpak is proud to have developed the new material, which can go through existing machinery without it needing to be adapted.”

The new material will save 35 million two-minute noodle containers going into landfill each year.

Also launched onto the market by Detpak is RecycleMe, new fibre-based packaging that replaces plastic packaging for the likes of pasta. It uses a calcium carbonate in the material that enables heat-sealing, and also enables easy recycling of the packaging. RecycleMe has been developed by Detpak to go through existing machinery without it needing any modification or replacement.

In addition to the two new fibre-based packaging solutions launched onto the market, Woolworths’ Double Bay store is currently trialling new plastic-free fruit and vegetable fibre-based packaging, also developed by Detmold. Bolzon said, “The client has been incredibly supportive. It is a long process, the trial has just got underway, but I am confident we will achieve what Woolworths wants, which is plastic free packaging that meets the challenges of food packaging.”