Uptake grows for low-carbon aluminium-free solution

SIG’s Com­bibloc Eco Plus, the world’s first and only alu­mini­um-free asep­tic car­ton, has hit the major mile­stone of 1 bil­lion packs filled. With the launch of Com­bibloc Eco Plus, SIG dis­rupt­ed the mar­ket by elim­i­nat­ing the need for an alu­mini­um foil bar­ri­er lay­er in asep­tic bev­er­age car­tons for the first time, sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing envi­ron­men­tal impact. Strong and grow­ing demand for this solu­tion is sup­port­ing SIG’s ambi­tion to go Way Beyond Good by help­ing to cre­ate a sus­tain­able food sup­ply sys­tem that puts more into the envi­ron­ment and soci­ety than it takes out. The 1 bil­lionth pack was filled by DMK Group, Germany’s largest dairy coop­er­a­tive. As an ear­ly adopter of Com­bibloc Eco Plus, DMK Group has played a deci­sive role in the suc­cess sto­ry of this low-car­bon asep­tic pack­ag­ing solu­tion for the dairy market.

Delivering for the environment

Asep­tic bev­er­age car­tons already offer a sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er envi­ron­men­tal foot­print than alter­na­tive types of pack­ag­ing due to their high pro­por­tion of renew­able mate­ri­als, light weight and effi­cient design. Com­bibloc Eco Plus cuts envi­ron­men­tal impact even fur­ther by using an inno­v­a­tive com­pos­ite struc­ture to pro­tect the con­tents with­out the need for alu­mini­um foil. The pack is made up of 82% renew­able paper­board – sourced from FSC-cer­ti­fied sus­tain­able sources. The result is a 28 % low­er car­bon foot­print than a con­ven­tion­al SIG car­ton in the same for­mat, as shown by an inde­pen­dent life­cy­cle assess­ment by the inde­pen­dent Insti­tute for Ener­gy and Envi­ron­men­tal Research (IFEU). SIG is the only com­pa­ny offer­ing an asep­tic car­ton pack with­out alu­mini­um. Com­bibloc Eco Plus show­cas­es the company’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­able inno­va­tion as it dri­ves progress towards its Way Beyond Good ambi­tion. The inno­v­a­tive alu­mini­um-free struc­ture also forms the basis for Sig­na­ture Pack 100, the world’s first pack asep­tic pack linked to 100% renew­able materials.

Broad market appeal

Cli­mate change has become a main­stream top­ic for con­sumers and SIG’s low-car­bon Com­bibloc Eco Plus solu­tion is help­ing cus­tomers meet grow­ing demand for more sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing. Both sus­tain­able and eco­nom­ic, Com­bibloc Eco Plus appeals across all cat­e­gories from pre­mi­um organ­ic to price entry com­mod­i­ty, brands and pri­vate labels alike. Com­bibloc Eco Plus can be filled on stan­dard bev­er­age fill­ing machines from SIG with a sim­ple change to the fill­ing parameters.

„Com­bibloc Eco Plus works for cus­tomers and for the plan­et,” said Fred­er­ic Faber, Mar­ket­ing Account Man­ag­er D‑A-CH at SIG. “It com­bines envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and eco­nom­ic com­pet­i­tive­ness like no oth­er asep­tic car­ton pack avail­able on the mar­ket. This unique com­bi­na­tion has made Com­bibloc Eco Plus appeal­ing to SIG cus­tomers across a broad mar­ket spread, from pre­mi­um brands to pri­vate labels“.