The project ran between November 2022 and June 2025.
The project has developed holistic solutions, i.e., technologies and business models, for bio-based packaging to enable circular and biobased approaches along the value chain from choice of material, packaging design to handling and management of used packaging.
The focuses of the project were:
1) to replace fossil-based plastic packaging with bio-based alternatives for industrial packaging and e-commerce;
2) to design and create reusable fibre-based packaging that can be used multiple times prior to recycling.
The solutions, including technologies and business models, have be developed through close collaborations with industrial actors along the value chain from material production, packaging design and converting, brand owners and end users, to recycling companies.
Five demonstration products have been designed/produced and validated in real life environments. They are two reusable fibre-based packaging for e-commerce, one reusable fiber-based packaging for warehouses of garment, one fiber-based protective packaging (endcap) for drill rods, and one endcap made of bio-based degradable plastics.
Participants
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Billerud Sweden AB, DS Smith Packaging Sweden AB, Epiroc Drilling Tools AB, Fiskeby Board AB, Holmen AB, Kalamansi, RE-ZIP, Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools AB, GAIA Biomaterials, H&M, and AB Sundplast.
Budget
The project’s total budget was 6,7 MSEK.