SINGLE SERVE
GREENLUTION
Closing the loop on capsules SÄNTIS, WIPF, AND OPTIMA HAVE COMBINED THEIR EXPERTISE IN SINGLE SERVE COFFEE PACKAGING TO DEVELOP THE SUSTAINABLE AND ECOLOGICAL GREENLUTION FUTURE CAPSULE SYSTEM.
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ustainability requires collaboration – people, businesses, and governments working together to achieve a closed-loop solution. When it comes to single serve coffee, it’s not enough for the capsule to be recyclable or compostable, the laminates or sealings and equipment that handles it need to do so proficiently and ecologically. That is why it took three companies experienced in the single serve coffee sector – Säntis Packaging, Wipf, and Optima – partnering to develop the GreenLution Future Capsule System. GreenLution promotes a sustainable circular system, which ranges from the production and use of coffee capsules to the recycling of the packaging material. Säntis, Wipf, and Optima jointly developed systems in their respective areas of expertise to help the coffee industry package its single serve products sustainably and securely. “Our three businesses have formed a strong partnership over the years, inventing many solutions and acquiring much business together,” says Marco Reiss, Head of Sales and Business Development at Säntis Packaging. “With GreenLution, all three partners shared the same concept and basic idea. Because we know each other and work together very well, we were able to start immediately to develop a new ecological solution for the coffee industry. It only took one and a half years from when we started
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to receiving our first certification in June 2020.” All three businesses can boast decades of experience in the single serve coffee market, with Säntis alone producing coffee capsules and pods since the early 1990s, not long after the launch of Nespresso. Over the years, the packaging manufacturer has expanded its portfolio to include thermoforming and producing pods and capsules for a variety of machines and formats. Its contribution to GreenLution is the Recy+ Cap, a lightweight, recyclable, and highfunctioning polypropylene (PP) coffee capsule produced with 50 per cent bio-based material. “Not only are these capsules recyclable, they are not made with exclusively virgin materials. Half of the plastic is derived with food oil, which would usually be thrown away, and in this way
