Westpak were thrilled to be announced as shortlisted for the category of ‘Sustainable Packaging Initiative’ at the 2023 Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Awards. The FDF Awards highlight excellence across various areas of the UK’s food and drink industry with entrants representing each stage of the supply chain and a total of twenty-two prestigious award categories.
Westpak’s shortlisting for the Sustainable Packaging Initiative centred on the development of the Crave foodservice packaging range which has been developed to provide foodservice providers with an innovative packaging solution that fulfils several core objectives. These include creating a packaging range with genuine, quantifiable sustainability benefits that can be clearly communicated. We also aimed to achieve this without compromising on performance or practicality as well as providing cost-saving benefits through the design itself.
The range has achieved a number of clear sustainability benefits for UK-based foodservice, takeaway and QSR brands. These include being manufactured in the UK, significantly reducing its production carbon footprint against overseas production. Each box is also fully recyclable/‘re-pulpable’ and industrially compostable. The containers are also manufactured from lightweight fibres (driving resource efficiency) which are derived from paper from European paper mills certified with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The inner coating also replaces traditional plastic lamination linings, instead utilising a highly-innovative emulsion-based coating. This coating provides a high level of moisture resistance while remaining widely accepted in standard recycling systems. Additionally, all ‘window’ options are made from NatureFlex™ (by Futamura), a home-compostable cellulose film.
