Paboco moves into full-scale production

Absolut launches first-ever commercially available paper bottles

Absolut Vodka is to become the first global spirits brand to sell single-mould paper-based bottles commercially in the UK as part of its journey to create a fully bio-based bottle.

Carlsberg makes fully bio-based and recyclable bottles available to consumers

Carlsberg reveals its next generation Fibre Bottle, the result of an ongoing innovation project with the Paper Bottle Company (Paboco), Avantium and its partners in the Paper Bottle Community.

Not just on paper – a Paboco feature in KHS Competence magazine

Check out this Paboco feature in the newest edition of KHS competence. Paboco believes they’re aclimate-friendly alternative to beverage containers manufactured from plastic.We talk to Gittan Schiöld and Tim Silbermann about their challenging journey,their first market-ready product and their future goals.

Paboco and the Paper Bottle Community further progress with the next generation paper bottle – reveals new groundbreaking paper closure!

In May 2021 Paboco announced the first prototype of the next generation paper bottle. What is the progress since then?

The Paboco Paper Bottle Community welcomes FSC® as an expert advisor in sustainable forest management

Community members the Coca-Cola Company, Carlsberg Group, The Absolut Company, L’Oréal, Procter& Gamble, BillerudKorsnäs and ALPLA, welcomes FSC’s expertise to the paper bottle innovation journey. Using FSC certification is a crucial step in introducing paper bottles that are responsibly sourced to the market. All bottles currently being produced by Paboco are FSC-certified and labelled.

Proud to announce that Procter & Gamble Joins our Paboco Paper Bottle Community

Paboco makes the paper bottle interactive to encourage recycling

Packaging has more to offer than protecting and branding products. It can help reduce a product’s climate impact by offering a low carbon packaging with waste management instructions. With new IoT technologies we can engage, encourage, and instruct consumers how to recycle.

Paboco reveals a prototype of the next generation paper bottle

Paboco has reached an important milestone – a first prototype of the next generation paper bottle. Together with the Paboco - Paper Bottle Community we have made major progress on our innovation journey.

Coca-Cola in Europe takes its paper bottle prototype to trial in Hungary

Another step forward by collaborating across the value chain. A paper bottle made by Paboco, designed by Grow and trialed with The Coca-Cola Company's plant-based drink, AdeZ.

Searching the perfect pulp for the paper bottle

To make a paper bottle you need an outstanding raw material that make it possible. Paboco together with BillerudKorsnäs are co-creating the future of the paper bottle project by developing a pulp that enables a strong paper bottle with great design and branding capabilities.

Introducing the Coca-Cola paper bottle prototype

It is finally here! After hard work together with the Coca-Cola Company we can show you their first-generation paper bottle prototype. But our job is not done yet we will continue to develop and improve towards a fully biobased and recyclable paper bottle. Step into the Coca Cola lab and a have a look!

Meet our experts making the paper bottles possible

We are breaking new ground, combining people’s expertise from Paboco, paper expert BillerudKorsnäs, global bottle manufacturer ALPLA Group and our group of Pioneering Brands Carlsberg Group, L'Oréal, The Absolut Company and The Coca-Cola Company. Our team drives us to never stop innovating and improving.Taking steps towards a more sustainable everyday life.

Presenting Absolut Paper

Here at Paboco we make concepts into reality.Now presenting Absolut Paper. The Absolut Company paper bottle, made real by us at Paboco and possible by our partnerships.

Our new paper bottle machine is in the house

After almost a year of joint development work with our partners the planning,designing, and assembling steps of Paboco’s first production platform has been achieved.

A dream team

It has been some time since we have posted some news about our progress. The past months our focus have been to design and develop our new paper bottle machine. We are now moving into the phase were we need to prepare for the arrival of our new family member. To design a machine from scratch takes courage, deep technical skills, innovative mind, problem solving, great collaboration within the team and our suppliers and finally endurance and control of the details. This is the capability of the Paboco team and on top of it; we had among our co-developers to conform to do all the work remotely. Very proud to send greetings from the Paboco dream team, and see this as a teaser for more progress updates coming soon! Cheers, Gittan

Paboco presenting the Paper Bottle Community – a look back

Paboco knows what it takes to make a paperbottle: Willingness to the challenge of creating a movement for sustainable change.

Paboco want to take the opportunity to wish a Happy New Year

Paboco want to take the opportunity to wish a Happy New Year and beginning of 2020 and to thank you for following us during 2019. We are on a very exciting innovation journey!

Paper bottle community / Pioneer brands

It has been a week since we launched our new company Paboco - the paper bottle company and announced our Paper bottle community.We are overwhelmed by the engagement and media coverage our project has generated. It has created many dialogues about what is sustainable and what is not that is building up the awareness which will hopefully lead to a movement of making more sustainable everyday choices.

Paboco introduces the Paper bottle community to advance packaging innovation.

During the C40 World Mayor Summit in Copenhagen, we proudly present Paboco®, the paper bottle company, uniting leading experts in material, design and technology, and supported by world-leading consumer brands to bring sustainable progress to the bottling industry.

Follow the project and be part of our story.

What a great feeling! Today, we are up and running with Paboco, the paper bottle company, starting to change this industry for good. After months of discussions, meetings and working hours, I can proudly announce that we have our name, identity and brand in place to highlight and continue driving our industry's most important project; the making of bio-based, recyclable and commercially viable paper bottle.