The invention of Pierre Papillaud the owner of the Alma group (Cristaline, Saint-Yorre, Rozana waters) is making emulators. The solidarity cap now equips cardboard packaging from Tetra Pak. This cap attached to its bottle, which first appeared in 2016 on Cristaline plastic bottles, helps reduce litter.
The Swiss manufacturer of liquid food packaging is launching the world's first attached closures on carton packs in the coming weeks and months. Five of its customers supplying water or milk have chosen this solution: BBL for the Irish market, Cido Grupa in the Baltic States, LY Company Group and Lactalis Puleva in Spain and Weihenstephan in Germany.
This puts them ahead of the European Directive 2019/904 on single-use plastics (SUP), which will come into force in July 2024.
About 400 million euros will have been invested in the development and deployment of these attached closures, including 100 million euros in 2021 in the Tetra Pak closure plant in Châteaubriant in the Loire-Atlantique region.
Ola Elmqvist, executive vice president of packaging solutions at Tetra Pak, comments, " For these five new introductions, we expect to equip around 300 packaging lines with attached closures in Europe by the end of 2022. Given the scale of change needed in the value chain, these initial collaborations allow us and the Food & Beverage industry to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon circular economy."
He continues: "By working in an integrated fashion on multiple projects and equipping about 40 different packages with attached closures, we expect to sell more than 1.5 billion of these closures by the end of the year."
