Orkla & Irplast join Sabic’s Trucircle initiative for consumer goods packaging

Saudi Arabia based Sabic announced that Orkla, a diversified Nordic brand owner in business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce with foods, snacks, food care for sport, and food ingredients, has launched its first chips packaging using certified renewable polypropylene (PP) polymer from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio. The sustainable material is derived from tall oil, a residual product from the Nordic forestry industry. It is converted into a Biaxially Oriented PolyPropylene (BOPP) by Irplast, a major Italian vertically integrated manufacturer of specialty S-BOPP films and converter of printed shrinkable BOPP roll-fed labels and PSA tapes. In Orkla’s chips bags, the material solution helps lower the carbon footprint of the three partners’ value chain in half compared to the use of traditional non-renewable plastics. “We want to make it easier for consumers to make environmentally conscious choices,” says Sara Malmström, sustainability manager at Orkla Confectionery and Snacks. “Packaging is an important part of all our products, and plastic packaging in particular can have a considerable impact on both the environment and climate. We are proud to be first in the Swedish market…

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