Packaging transitions get sold on sustainability. Sometimes on cost. Rarely on warehouse logistics. Which is strange, because for anyone running a production facility with meaningful packaging volumes, the storage and handling numbers are often the fastest part of the business case to actually prove. I want to talk about nesting. Specifically, why the nesting properties of moulded pulp packaging [...]

PPWR packaging fees are about to reshape how companies in the EU calculate packaging costs. Most finance teams in the EU do not know this yet. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Regulation (EU) 2025/40, entered into force on 11 February 2025. It applies across all EU member states from 12 August 2026. No national opt-outs. No transition [...]

Over the past year, I have been evaluating new molded pulp packaging suppliers more frequently. A pattern has become hard to ignore. Startups are entering this space in growing numbers. Some bring genuine passion. Some bring serious investment. Almost all of them underestimate the distance between a working concept and consistent, client-ready production. Molded pulp looks deceptively simple. Paper-based, [...]

The thing that still surprises me, after years of working on this, is how late in the process packaging conversations happen. A company will spend eighteen months developing a product. Engineering reviews, material selections, tolerance studies, supplier qualifications. And then somewhere in the last six weeks before launch, someone sends an email asking what we should put it in. [...]

A word from our CEO Matjaž Bergant There are two completely different markets inside molded pulp Most of the industry attention, the trade show presentations, the supplier brochures, goes toward custom-designed molded fibre. A tray shaped precisely around your product. Branded. Engineered to your dimensions. It is genuinely impressive work, and for the right company at the right volume, [...]