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Packnatur® Grip Protection Netting for Cardboard Packaging on Horizontal Net-Clipping Machines

Packnatur® Cellulose Tube Netting has become an integral part of the fruit and vegetable sections of domestic and international supermarkets. More and more product categories are being switched to this sustainable and compostable packaging made from beech wood. This includes fruit and vegetables, which is sold in trays and provided with a protective net for better handling and further protection of their contents.

The Global Plastics Treaty and why Recycling is not the Solution

From November 25 to December 1, 2024, representatives from all nations will meet for the fifth (and likely final) time at a UN conference in Busan, South Korea, to discuss the future of plastic management. The aim of the Global Plastics Treaty is to find a common approach to protect people, animals and the environment from the harmful effects of plastic waste in the future. Scientists are in agreement that these are enormous.

40x40 Ecotopia - Design Exhibition New York

What attempts and ways of creation approximate the harmony of nature and technology?

So much produce comes in plastic. Is there a better way?

The New York Times highlights Packnatur® Netting as alternative to plastic.

Upcycling Workshop at the FRida & freD children's museum

The upcycling exhibition ‘MIST?!’ is currently on display at the Graz children’s museum FRida & freD. Together with our designer Bettina Reichl, the children transformed leftovers from our net tube production into colourful, ‘compostable’ clothes on 17 July 2024 as part of the ‘Garbage becomes fashion’ workshop.

Saved by nature: Packnatur® has developed a mesh tube for premium fruit and bottles

The white foamed plastic nets have competition. Exquisite fruits such as mangoes or papayas can now also be individually wrapped in wood fibre and be well protected for transport. And there is also a lot more that can be sturdily packed in it. Bottles, for example.

Company Merger

In order to optimise our efforts and resources, we have merged our trading company, VPZ Verpackungszentrum GmbH, as the transferring company, with its sister company, Packnatur Entwicklungs- und Produktions GmbH. As of 1 July 2024, we are called Packnatur GmbH and are concentrating entirely on our Packnatur® Cellulose Tube Netting.

Production Expansion in Neudau, Austria

The full expansion of the Neudau plant for the production of wood-based net packaging was achieved with the commissioning of the fourth production hall in January 2024. Packnatur® Cellulose Tube Netting is a compostable alternative to plastic that can be used 1:1 on existing packaging machines.

"Design Everyday"

Interview by Sabine Dreher with our designer Bettina Reichl on the occasion of Vienna Design Week 2023

Wood-based Packnatur® nets from Austria on course for success in the US

Packnatur® Partner Jac Vandenberg wins US Plastics Pact Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award 2023 with beechwood fibre-based netting for bagged fresh produce from the thinning of FSC® or PEFC certified forests.