Counting Down the Top Four Dow Awards: #2 Metal-free Recyclable Coffee Bag
This award winner represent the most innovative packaging breakthroughs in categories ranging from food and beverage to personal care, with a strong focus on sustainability and the circular economy.
Jan 6th, 2021 One of the Diamond Finalist awards went to Colombia’s Alico for a metal-free and recyclable coffee bag. Among the very first to commercialize this pre-made bag was Pergamino Coffee of Medellin, Colombia.
According to Alico Purchasing Manager Christina Rendon, Alico has been optimizing its metal-free pouch-making technology for some time now. The whole idea, of course, is to remove the aluminum foil layer so that the packaging material fits neatly into the well-established recycle stream that already exists for polyethylene.