SIG: Sustainability and convenience

Stand out sustainability and convenience from SIG

By SIG

here is no doubt that sustainability has become a hot topic over the past few years and is certainly here to stay. Consumers, retailers and brands are looking at packaging to become more sustainable, recyclable and more environmentally friendly, to make our future a better one. This is something which is at the forefront of SIG’s packaging portfolio and is integral to its business. SIG’s ‘Way Beyond Good’ sustainability initiative creates a net positive food and beverage packaging system.

SIG is a leading systems and solutions provider for aseptic carton packaging. Working in partnership with customers, the company brings food and beverage products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. SIG’s unique filling technology and outstanding innovation capacity provides customers with end-toend solutions for differentiated products, smarter factories, and digitally connected packaging – all to address the ever-changing needs of consumers.

The ideal alternative A differentiating, and at the same time sustainable, packaging solution is the uniquely different combidome carton bottle from SIG. combidome offers the best features of a carton and a bottle, providing clear differentiation on shelf.

The carton bottle combidome offers all the protective, environmental and logistical benefits of an aseptic carton pack, with convenient handling for consumers and easy opening and pouring from the single action domeTwist screw cap. With its elegant shape, combidome is easy for consumers to handle and even drink from – just like a bottle! From premium juices and wellness drinks to protein-rich beverages, plant-based drinks and responsibly sourced waters, combidome offers the perfect packaging solution for new products across all categories. The beverage carton offers the ideal alternative to single-use plastic bottles, guaranteeing exceptional sustainable convenience and differentiation in three different volume sizes: 500ml, 750ml and 1000ml.

The lightweight carton bottle also has an excellent environmental footprint, being fully recyclable and largely made from FSC™certified paperboard (FSC™ trademark licence code: FSC™ CO20428). combidome can also be combined with SIG’s SIGNATURE packaging material, where the polymers are also linked to forestbased materials via a mass balancing system.

Reaping the benefits Last year, SIG partnered with co-packing solutions specialist

Framptons to install a new generation combidome filling machine, the first of its kind in the UK, which has the capacity to fill 12,000 packs per hour. This unique partnership opens up exciting opportunities for dairy and dairy alternatives as well as juice, water and functional and specialist beverages.

As a differentiator on-shelf, there are already brands that are reaping the benefits from SIG’s carton bottle across categories including household brands Yeo Valley and Weetabix, plant-based beverages Mighty Pea, Grounded and LILK, and waters Water In a Box and NOBL.

Mighty Pea recently launched its existing range of Mighty M.lks: Original Pea, Unsweetened and Protein Oat, plus a new Mighty M.lk Barista SKU, in combidome 1000ml with SIGNATURE Full Barrier packaging material and have recently been awarded the Foundation Earth Eco Score of A.

Grounded, a plant-based protein drink, launched in combidome 500ml in 2019 as an on-the-go functional drink and can be found in a variety of specialist health food shops at the moment.

LILK has launched The Common Blend Oat & Rice and The Lush Blend Oat, Coconut & Quinoa in combidome 1000ml.

Yeo Valley launched its new Organic Milk Shakes in combidome 750ml with SIGNATURE Full Barrier packaging material, allowing the final product to offer a lower carbon footprint.

Household favourite Weetabix launched its on-the-go Chocolate and Strawberry SKUs at the end of last year in combidome, allowing the brand to stand out on shelf and in the chiller cabinet.

Water brands NOBL and Water in a Box also launched this year in combidome 500ml, breaking away from the norm of PET bottles in the category.

These innovative partnerships leverage the potential of SIG’s Product Innovation and Differentiation platform – a drive to deliver innovative product and packaging solutions that enable businesses to satisfy the everchanging needs of consumers. combidome delivers exactly this and brings something uniquely different and disruptive to the plant-based market and retail

shelves, standing out with its eyecatching look and shape. To read more about combidome and the extensive portfolio and complete solutions SIG offers, please visit www.sig.biz

For insights into trends that drive the food and beverage industry and inspire us to innovate, visit the SIGnals blog: sig.biz/signals/en

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