Sustainable packaging

We helped the packaging development manager of a major cosmetics company to identify suppliers of food and cosmetic grade wooden packaging.

Through extensive patent review, analysis of congresses and symposia, and consideration of the latest academic research on the subject, we identified several technology partnership options, including one that was unknown to our client and fully met its technical requirements.

In the context of growing awareness and pressure to preserve the environment, a coffee capsule manufacturer wanted to offer a new generation of home compostable capsules, which would be an alternative to the current “green” materials (a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester derived from renewable biomass).

Through a state-of-the-art exploration of off-the-shelf and in-development solutions, we have identified and characterized innovative packaging solutions and trends to challenge and fuel our client’s knowledge in this domain.

We supported one of our clients, an industrial leader in the food and beverage sector, in achieving a state of the art on packaging solutions and innovations related to weight reduction, meeting the objectives of conservation, storage of products, and reduction of the environmental footprint.

We first identified the key trends in the field of packaging weight reduction (solutions around materials, production processes and design methods). We then identified 30 solutions and characterized the 10 most relevant innovations in relation to our client’s context, by creating an interactive database and a specific identity card for each solution retained.

Our analysis enabled our client to identify several possible solutions to achieve their packaging goals.

We supported a major player in the food industry in identifying potential partners who could enable it to offer alternatives to single-use packaging.

In this search for more sustainable packaging solutions, over 60 players covering several technologies have been identified, prioritized and deepened as part of a detailed characterization of their capacities and their openness to collaboration.

This enabled our client to have a clear operational roadmap regarding the players to be prioritized.

In order to align with its CSR goals but also to drive commercial innovation, we supported one of our clients, a manufacturer of medical devices, in deciphering the main stakes of oral and nasal administration devices recycling in France.

We first started by mapping the key players involved in the considered field in France. Then, based on both a literature in-depth analysis and targeted interviews with these key players, we analyzed how such end-of-life management and recycling is currently performed and determined how and when the field may evolve according to regulations.

All in all, we identified relevant partners for our client in the space of the end-of-life management of their devices and provided them with inspiration on the operating model developed by others. We also made recommendations on whether to act now for each considered device, and how to do so.

We worked with a packaging manufacturer to identify and evaluate new business opportunities in the field of molded fiber food packaging in Europe.

To do so, we segmented the different types of food products and currently used packaging, and characterized the possible applications by evaluating their economic potential. We then selected the most promising food applications for further analysis. We deep dived on these applications through interviews with key industry experts, and assessed their market sizes, openness and closeness to our client’s activity.

We finally identified several packaging applications of particular interest for our client, which could represent future business opportunities, and also provided them with details on the associated main needs and expectations for each of these applications.