Home

Search History

Clear History

Hot Searches

Change

Subscribe eNews

Once A Week Once Every Two Weeks

Applications

150 billion PET bottles recycled, Indorama Ventures reaches milestone

K 2025: CMG to roll out new large granulator for post-consumer recycling

What Is this summer's hottest packaging trend in China?

Products

Why and where are Chinese modified plastics companies expanding overseas?

Haitian International’s overseas sales up 34.7%

Top 10 Technology Trends: Recycled plastics and bioplastics

Activities

Round Table at Fakuma 2023: “Plastic – Recyclable Rather Than Problem Material!”
ArabPlast 2023 – The Success Journey Continues………..
GREAT NEWS! INAPA 2023 IS COMING BACK 24 - 26 May 2023 at JIExpo Jakarta, Indonesia

Pictorial

Webinars

[Mandarin] High-performance Engineering Plastics Drive the Development of New Energy Vehicles

[Mandarin] MAGMA: Boosting LSR Molding Solutions with Multiphysics Simulation SIGMASOFT®

[English] WANHUA: Wanhua Chemical ESG Development and low-carbon material application, Medical Industry Material Solution.

Conferences

7th Edition CPRJ Medical Plastics and Rubber Conference and Showcase

14th Edition CPRJ Plastics in Automotive Conference and Showcase

13th Edition CPRJ Plastics in Packaging Conference and Showcase

Industry Topic

ASEAN: The Next Manufacturing Hub

Innovative and Sustainable Packaging

Green Plastics: News & Insights

CHINAPLAS

CHINAPLAS 2025 Focus

CHINAPLAS 2024 Focus

CHINAPLAS 2023 Focus

Exhibition Topic

K 2025 FOCUS

CHINA INSIGHT

Fakuma 2024 Highlights

News Videos

CPRJ Packaging Conference: motan offers intelligent systems for packaging industry

CPRJ Packaging Conference: York Colour brings colors to packaging

CPRJ Packaging Conference: Fuhai's PET tackifying technology reduces production costs

Conference Videos

ENGEL e-cap 380

ENGEL e-speed 280 125ml thinwall container with 30% rPET

ENGEL e-speed 420 packaging

Corporate/Product Videos

Jiangsu Liside New Material Co., Ltd.

Dow 45 years in China

Carbon Removal and Carbon Emission Reduction Tech Solution——Yuanchu Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.

Exhibition

Playback TECHHUB 2025@CPRJ Live Streaming for CHINAPLAS

Playback TECHHUB@CPRJ Live Streaming for CHINAPLAS

Events

Playback On April 14, the "6th Edition CHINAPLAS x CPRJ Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase" at the Crowne Plaza Shenzhen Nanshan is currently being livestreamed!

Playback 5th Edition CHINAPLAS x CPRJ Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase

News

Events

SPE Asia

Special

Live

eNews

eBook

Event Calendar

Survey

CHINA INSIGHT

Comment
(0)

Home > News > Packaging

Borealis supplies sustainable polyolefin for Greiner Packaging’s PP food cup

Source：Adsale Plastics Network Date ：2021-06-22 Editor ：JK

By using the Bornewables portfolio, Greiner Packaging is for the first time incorporating renewable resources in the production of food cups made of polypropylene (PP) with in-mold labeling (IML) as the decoration technology. Initial prototypes of the cups are available now.

The packaging manufacturer has now produced a food cup made of premium polyolefin obtained exclusively from waste and residue streams. The Bornewables line of products is manufactured by Borealis, a leading supplier of polyolefin based in Austria.

Unlike renewable raw materials produced with agricultural crops grown for food and livestock feed, the Bornewables products are made from second-generation (i.e., renewably sourced) feedstock derived solely from waste and residue streams: from vegetable oil production as well as oil waste and residues, from the timber industry, or from the food industry – for instance, used cooking oil.

The Bornewables offer the same characteristics as virgin polyolefin materials while boasting a substantially reduced carbon footprint. Also, the entire line of products has been certified as part of the ISCC PLUS (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) system.

Greiner Packaging produces first cup prototypes made of Bornewables.

"Through this product range, we are helping our customers and the value chain achieve their own sustainability targets, maintain their existing quality standards, and provide packaging solutions that are approved for food contact," stated Trevor Davis, Head of Marketing, Consumer Products at Borealis.

A life cycle analysis initiated by Borealis at its Kallo site in Belgium, showed that using Bornewables substantially reduces a product’s carbon footprint by at least 2.7 kg CO2eq for every kilogram of polymer. Moreover, using these premium polyolefin designed for circularity reduces the depletion of fossil resources by around 69%.

The new prototype IML cups for dairy products are made of Bornewables mono-material and were developed to be recycled as normal in conventional facilities – completely in line with the principle of design for recycling. The chemical structure of the PP material used in the cups is similar to that of standard plastic and can be recycled in the same loop as conventional polymers.

"Concepts like our new IML food cups only work when all partners along the entire value chain get involved and share the same sustainability targets – from feedstock suppliers through to brand owners," added Stephan Laske, R&D Director at Greiner Packaging. "As a packaging producer, we support these efforts in the context of our own circular economy strategy and pursue new approaches alongside partners and suppliers like Borealis."