Sustainable and fibre-based packaging options agency DS Smith is changing plastic pallets for canned merchandise with corrugated cardboard in collaboration with Denmark’s largest industrial producer of shellfish and seafood, Vilsund Blue A/S.
In collaboration with Vilsund Blue A/S, the DS Smith group of knowledgeable designers sought an revolutionary answer to remove using plastic and utilized their distinctive and industry-first Round Design Metrics (CDM) device to price and evaluate the circularity of potential new packaging designs throughout eight totally different indicators, together with carbon footprint, design for reuse, provide chain optimization, and materials utilization. The CDM sustainability measurement instruments give a transparent indication of a design’s circularity to disclose a variety of packaging options for respective buyer necessities.
The brand new fibre-based packaging answer for Vilsund Blue A/S is meant to extend the variety of canned models on every particular person pallet, and in consequence the corporate has elevated its capability to put in 1,800 cans per pallet for the transportation and freight of merchandise, to 2,700. As well as, the Vilsund Blue A/S merchandise can now be stacked and saved extra effectively and are made compact for the retail shelf.
In accordance with Martin Nielsen, Technical Help Supervisor, DS Smith:
“Vilsund Blue set us a problem to remove plastic supplies from their pallets and to guard the merchandise and guarantee and optimise a sustainability efficiency all through the provision chain. They produce mussels at scale, and we collaborated with Vilsund Blue’s machine suppliers to make sure that the packaging was totally aligned with their manufacturing processes. We’ve additionally considerably diminished CO2 emissions and the product appears nice on the shelf.”
Bent Svenningsen, Manufacturing Supervisor, Vilsund Blue A./S commented:
“DS Smith got here up with some unbelievable options to assist to make our packaging extra sustainable and round. We wished to exchange the plastic in our pallets and DS Smith have helped us to develop a pure corrugated cardboard various. We take immense pleasure in our dedication to high quality and the group of consultants at DS Smith are serving to us to understand a few of our sustainability targets.”
Vilsund Blue A/S has three industrial websites in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark, and round seventy staff are chargeable for cooking, packing, and distributing as much as 250 tonnes of contemporary shellfish, each day. The corporate additionally produces preserves, powder, and different merchandise alongside contemporary shellfish.
Via its goal of ‘Redefining Packaging for a Altering World’ and its companywide Now and Subsequent sustainability technique, DS Smith is dedicated to main a transition to the round financial system and to delivering revolutionary sustainable packaging options for its clients and society at massive. The corporate launched its Now & Subsequent Sustainability technique in 2020. It’s serving to clients worldwide attain their sustainability and round financial system targets.
