IDFA emphasizes that many dairy packaging materials and formats—including HDPE, PET, polypropylene, gable-top cartons and aseptic cartons—are recyclable but are not yet meeting the recycling rate thresholds required under SB 54.
This facility will also provide its customers with valuable insights into the new solution across the entire manufacturing journey – from barrier creation to packaging material and filled package production.
In its mission to create a fully regenerative food packaging system, SIG is steadily increasing the paper content of its aseptic cartons, to enhance renewability, and further reduce carbon footprints and the use of fossil-based materials.
Following the success of this packaging material innovation in the field of single-serve aseptic cartons, SIG is now expanding the alu-free option into the juice category and a multi-serve format for the first time.
Following the successful start of operations in early 2023, the company will invest an additional $35 million beginning in 2025, reinforcing its long-term commitment to the markets of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America.
SIG is scaling up the world’s first, aluminum-layer-free full-barrier packaging material to multi-serve aseptic cartons and ready to provide it at scale to customers around the globe.
Designed with cutting-edge technology, the plant in the state of Gujarat has an initial annual production capacity of up to 4 billion aseptic carton packs, meeting the highest environmental standards while creating more than 300 local jobs.
