Coca-Cola’s EMEA R&D Center in Brussels has announced a partnership with Blue Ocean Closures, a start-up with a worldwide mission to reduce plastics in packaging closures.
In line with its ambitions to advance sustainable packaging while reducing the use of non-renewable material, and support its ambitious World Without Waste strategy, Coca-Cola is joining Blue Ocean Closures’ community of pioneering partners. The move will see Blue Ocean Closures introduce a fibre-based packaging screw cap, that is biobased and recyclable as paper.
Daphné Ronat, Packaging Engineer at the Coca-Cola EMEA R&D Center in Brussels, Belgium, added: “We are excited to be part of the pioneer community and to help test and develop this innovation during its continued development. It fits both our sustainability strategy and our on-going exploratory work with future packaging technologies which may complement other, existing types of packaging in our packaging mix”.
Lars Sandberg, CEO of Blue Ocean Closures, noted: “For us to succeed with this groundbreaking move, away from fossil-based plastics, it is extremely important to have global brands onboard, with the ambition and ability to truly making a difference.”
