Mondi Partners With Biomaterial Engineers On Coating Solution Vienna, Austria based Mondi, a sustainable packaging and paper company, announced its partnership with advanced biomaterial engineers, traceless, to develop a new coating solution based on agricultural byproducts. The new coating will respond to the increasing demand for plastic alternatives in packaging solutions. Made from renewable plant-based materials, it eliminates the need for fossil raw materials, the company said. A life-cycle assessment showed that the provision of traceless material to the market leads to overall green- house gas savings of 76 percent from sourcing to dispos- al, if the material is used as a replacement for virgin PET.
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If only the production and disposal phase is considered, these savings add up to 95 percent. Also, the material is certified home compostable by DIN CERTCO according to NF T51-800. The joint work of Mondi and traceless on this product started in 2021, pairing Mondi’s knowledge in paper coat- ing and packaging solutions with traceless’ expertise for material solutions based on natural polymers. The coating granulates are produced in traceless’ pilot plant and are applied to Mondi’s kraft paper in Mondi’s R&D center for further testing of the coated paper. The coated kraft paper solution is tested for different packaging purposes to ensure it can be used across dif- ferent end-markets, the company said. The in-depth trials have confirmed that kraft paper coat- ed with traceless can resist water, oxygen and fat, while offering good printing abilities for different customers. “We are always looking at what the next steps are in creating truly circular packaging, following our customers’ demands as well as our own innovative spirit. This is a fan- tastic example of how we can combine our R&D forces to be one step ahead in the sustainable packaging game, contributing to a circular economy,” said Marko Schuster, COO Functional Paper and Films at Mondi. Anne Lamp, CEO and Co-Founder of traceless adds: “Our mission is to make pollution and waste history by us- ing materials that impact positively. The goal is to create a fit-for-purpose product, that works for as wide a range of applications and industries as possible.”
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