Nestlé continues to transform its packaging. After cereal bars Yes?!, kit Kat cookies the Nesquik All Natural chocolate powder and the chocolate bars from Smarties Now it's the turn of the individual Maggi bouillon cubes to turn to paper. The Swiss-based food giant has replaced multilayer laminate with aluminium with this recyclable substrate in its organic range on the French market.
"The main challenge our team faced was to create a foldable and sealable material, strong enough to offer protection - to keep the product fresh and safe - while being easily recyclable", says Torsten Pohl, Head of Nestlé's Food Product Technology Centre in Singen, Germany.
In addition, the packaging machines had to be adapted to work with this new support. The paper used for packaging comes from pulp and paper mills certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC).
To date, according to the group, 87% of Nestlé's packaging is recyclable or reusable. In 2018, it announced plans to make all packaging recyclable or reusable and to reduce its use of virgin plastics by a third by 2025.
