Agreement to be Signed for Bio-Based Plastic Carton Packaging in Brazil
Low-density polyethylene from a renewable source planned to be used.
In a reported first for the carton packaging industry, Tetra Pak, one of the leaders in food processing and packaging solutions, plans to sign an agreement with Braskem, a large thermoplastic resins producer, for the supply of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) made from sugar cane to its packaging material factories in Brazil.
This initiative, which will be limited in scope to Brazil only for the duration of the trial, is scheduled to start during the first quarter of 2014. According to the plan, Tetra Pak will use bio-based LDPE as a component of its packages produced in Brazil. The planned move to bio-based LDPE means that 100 percent of Tetra Pak packages produced in Brazil, about 13 billion, will have up to 82 percent packaging material from renewable sources.