Signature Pack wins Worldstar Packaging Award

Sig­na­ture Pack from SIG, the first asep­tic car­ton pack 100 % linked to plant-based renew­able mate­ri­als, has won the pres­ti­gious inter­na­tion­al World­Star Pack­ag­ing Award, in the ‘Pack­ag­ing Mate­ri­als and Com­po­nents’ category.

One of the major events held by the WPO (World Pack­ag­ing Orga­ni­za­tion), the renowned awards – which have been run­ning for near­ly 50 years – are judged by a dis­tin­guished pan­el of inter­na­tion­al WPO rep­re­sen­ta­tives, plus an Inter­na­tion­al Pack­ag­ing Press Orga­ni­za­tion member.

Sig­na­ture Pack is a key mile­stone in the asep­tic pack­ag­ing sec­tor, dri­ving the replace­ment of con­ven­tion­al plas­tics from fos­sil fuels by cer­ti­fied and sus­tain­able plant-based poly­mers, which are used to lam­i­nate the paper­board and to make the clo­sure with­out com­pro­mis­ing on the qual­i­ty of bar­ri­er protection.

SIG car­ton packs con­tain on aver­age 70–80 % paper­board from renew­able wood sources. Addi­tion­al­ly, in Sig­na­ture Pack the poly­mers used for lam­i­nat­ing the paper­board and mak­ing the clo­sure are linked to plant-based mate­r­i­al via a mass bal­ance sys­tem. This means that for the poly­mers used in the Sig­na­ture Pack, an equiv­a­lent amount of bio-based feed­stock went into the man­u­fac­tur­ing of the polymers.

One of the key attrib­ut­es that ele­vat­ed Sig­na­ture Pack to the top of the judge’s short­list was the use of tall oil – a by-prod­uct of paper pro­duc­tion – as the bio-based feed­stock going into the poly­mers via mass bal­anc­ing, as it doesn’t affect sta­ple food crops. To ensure the integri­ty of this process, the mass bal­anc­ing is cer­ti­fied through inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised third-parties.

Ace Fung, Glob­al Prod­uct Man­ag­er at SIG, received the World­Star Pack­ag­ing Award on behalf of SIG: “This award is anoth­er great acco­lade for SIG and its ongo­ing com­mit­ment to going ‘Way Beyond Good’ and to becom­ing a net-pos­i­tive busi­ness. Sig­na­ture Pack uses tall oil as the bio-based feed­stock because it is a by-prod­uct of paper pro­duc­tion, rather than a crop which requires land to grow. In doing this the poly­mer used to lam­i­nate Sig­na­ture Pack has a 100 % link to plant-based mate­r­i­al. This is a world first for asep­tic car­ton packs and also a dri­ve for a more sus­tain­able future in the glob­al pack­ag­ing industry.”

Sig­na­ture Pack is a stand-out car­ton pack both in terms of pro­vid­ing added val­ue to the bev­er­age indus­try and sat­is­fy­ing grow­ing con­sumer demand for sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing solu­tions. Sig­na­ture Pack is one of the most piv­otal inno­va­tions sup­port­ing SIG’s Way Beyond Good ambi­tions to offer cus­tomers the most sus­tain­able food pack­ag­ing solu­tions and to becom­ing a net pos­i­tive busi­ness by con­tribut­ing more to soci­ety and the envi­ron­ment than it takes out – across the val­ue chain.