BioPak now offers Australian and New Zealand business with a bespoke pulp moulding service. With our innovative design solutions and access to specific expertise in pulped products and tooling coupled with the ability to cater for customized production runs as small as 5000 units, this service promises to change the way that consumer and protective packaging is developed.
Everyone at BioPak takes the approach that there's always a better way to do things. We hope we listen as much as we talk and are proud to have helped clients with some award winning sustainable packaging concepts. We work with business to help evolve their ideas and deliver an optimal solution, whatever the packaging application.
Materials
We use post consumer recycled corrugate and post consumer waste paper as the main ingredient of our products. We also work with bamboo pulps and have successfully made 100% bamboo pulp products and blended mixes of recycled corrugate and bamboo pulp. Our bamboo pulp comes from mills which source the bamboo from sustainable plantations.
We work hard on ensuring our other inputs and processes are as sustainable as possible.
Water
A basic input and abundantly available but nevertheless a resource which most facilities waste. Water is collected from the production facility roof and stored in tanks until it's required. This may not satisfy 100% of the water requirements (although water usage is still low), we feel it is a strong step towards self sufficiency and sustainability.
Energy
After pulp has been moulded, it has to go through a drying process before it can be pressed into a finished product. Many factories use drying machines fuelled by coal or diesel. At the BioPak production facility, they opted for more open space so that they could use outdoor areas for natural drying.
Using recycled paper and recycled cardboard, we pulp, mould and after-press the materials into new formats such as protective packaging, retail packaging and industrial packaging. We can even make finished consumer products.
By applying our moulded fiber technology to an innovative approach to packaging design, we can help customers meet their sustainability targets, whilst enhancing their brand with a high end product.
Our finished products are readily recyclable themselves, making the process a truly cradle-to-cradle cycle.
Why Moulded Pulp?
Making the right environmental choices is something companies and consumers are now very focused on. All too often though progress in one area seems to come with sacrifice in another. BioPak works with our clients’ engineering, packaging and marketing teams to show that pulp moulding is the optimal choice in all areas:
Flexible
Pulp can be moulded to fit any shape
Pulp packaging is highly versatile across a huge range of product sizes and types
The tooling process is very quick and simple
Effective
Pulp moulded products and packaging are highly durable
Moulded fibre products are temperature resistant and;
They absorb vibration and impact effectively
Economic
Material inputs are stable – no volatility around resin or corrugate prices
Tooling is cost effective
Products are space efficient for shipping and warehousing
