We're changing this industry for good.
Many worry about package littering in the oceans. We see how the root of the problem is close to home; on the store shelf, in your grocery bag and kitchen pantry.
That’s why we are making a paper bottle.
We are Paboco, the paper bottle company, and we have decided to take action and become part of the solution – by designing for circularity using renewable materials.
The paper bottle project is an innovation community joining some of the world's leading players in materials, design and technology; united by the vision to create the world's first 100% bio-based and recyclable paper bottle.
From your favourite soda to your sun lotion, we are providing people with better environmental choices. And, although innovation is a step-by-step process, without a guaranteed result, we aim to place a paper bottle in every hand.
By changing the bottling industry for good, we have the opportunity to impact people's choice of sustainable packaging and indirectly spark the beginning of an everyday movement.
Paboco was founded with the purpose of embracing and driving the ongoing paper bottle project, an innovation community and platform, joining some of the world's leading experts in materials, design and technology.
The project was started by Danish innovation company EcoXpac in 2010, with the Carlsberg Group joining in 2015 to initiate the “The green fibre bottle”, a project where Carlsberg and EcoXpac were collaborating on a first paper bottle prototype based on recycled fibres. In parallel, BillerudKorsnäs was also in the process of exploring the possibilities of another paper bottle product.
Evidently, the three companies had assumed a similar challenge, which soon led to a joint innovation platform. EcoXpac had competence in pulp moulding and tool manufacturing, but needed support on fibre technology, stock preparation, paper making, barriers, upscaling, market opportunities etc.
As the project progressed, BillerudKorsnäs became a majority shareholder in EcoXpac. A partnership discussion with bottle manufacturer Alpla was initiated, which ultimately led to the decision to continue the project in a new company suit now called Paboco, the paper bottle company, launched in 2019.
Alpla is now the sole shareholder of Paboco looking to grow the ambition to drive packaging innovation in a sustainable direction. Supporting Paboco in setting up a new manufacturing site in Denmark.
”Enabling a robust and efficient way to multiply the idea of sustainable packaging for liquid goods - that is the challenge we take at Paboco, the paper bottle company.”