Fiberdom and Kiefel Partner to Boost Sustainable Fibre-Based Packaging

Partnership to Enhance Fibre-Based Packaging with Robust Technology

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Announcement

Fiberdom, a wood fibre material innovator, is in collaboration with modeling technology and packaging machinery Kiefel to leverage the marketization and development of fully recyclable, home compostable, and fibre-related packaging. The partnership merges Fiberdoms duranova material with Kiefels dry fibre, establishing technology to serve plastic-free packaging alternatives. The collaboration will mainly target solutions that are suitable for dry forming technology with strength in materials and formability in 3D structures, with material efficacy and low weight. For instance, the examined home compostable beverage cup lids, single-use cutlery, and margarine container lids. Numerous market-ready applications are accessible with fine sync, and final testing is currently being developed for further advancement.

The collaboration is essential for innovative upliftment in the competing and challenging era of industry seeking technology and creativity, both in balance to fuel unfiltered growth and recognition of the brand. The fiberdom has smartly collaborated with the tech leader to accelerate the packaging performance. The company will further promote the proportion of sustainable ideas to big brands. This partnership chain strengthens innovative methods and enhances possibilities for brands in the packaging sector to distinguish their identity. The growth of new ideas and opportunities will show the effective result and resonance for this collaboration in the near future.

General manager of Fiberdom, Tomi Jarvenpaa, said,

“The collaboration with Kiefel is a smart strategy and a powerful endorsement of our material technology and shows the readiness to scale up with crucial partners engaging in the complex sustainability challenges the packaging market is facing in todays world.”

What does Kiefels Dry Forming Technology Offer?

The packaging applications with critical shapes and performance level requirements were largely produced with a traditional method using a wet forming process to avoid wrinkles and cracks during forming. Now, Kiefels dry forming technology has unlocked new advantages for specific types of packaging applications with a solution for products with certain geometric requirements.

Vice president of technology at Kiefel, Sven Engelmann, said,

“This smart collaboration helps us to provide market-ready dry forming solutions that mainly contribute to the cost efficiency, compostability, and recyclability for the applications where this technology has the space to perform excellence. Alongside maintaining and managing the full space of forming technologies to deliver the full range of packaging essentials without sacrificing performance.” With this partnership, the packaging sector will undergo new advancements and shift into the tech packaging category.