Packaging made from multiple materials, especially those containing aluminum layers, creates significant challenges for recycling, often resulting in waste streams that are difficult to process efficiently.
By using a single material family, such as PE or PP, for the entire packaging—body, cap, and shoulder—you ensure compatibility with recycling systems. This approach simplifies the process, reducing the risk of materials being diverted to landfills or energy recovery.
Multi-layer or composite materials often mix different substances, making separation and proper recycling nearly impossible. This complexity leads to higher waste and environmental impact.
Our mono-material packaging offers a clear path to recyclability. With all components made from the same material, it can easily be recycled, closing the loop and contributing to a circular economy. This approach not only supports sustainability goals but also reduces the environmental footprint without compromising packaging performance or appearance.
Many brands are challenged by the carbon footprint of their packaging when using traditional plastic tubes.
Switching to thinner-walled, lightweight tubes significantly lowers your carbon footprint. While thin-walled tubes are common, most solutions overlook the potential to further reduce material use in key areas like caps and shoulders. These components often add unnecessary weight and material, limiting your sustainability goals.
Our advanced tube technology minimizes material usage not only in the walls but also in the caps and shoulder design, all without sacrificing the essential protective barriers that keep your product safe. With our solution, you achieve both sustainability and performance.
Incorporating recycled materials into your packaging is a powerful way to drive sustainability and minimize environmental impact. By using materials with a high percentage of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, you help reduce the demand for virgin plastics, lower your carbon footprint, and contribute to a circular economy.
Many traditional solutions still depend on large amounts of virgin plastic, making it difficult for companies to meet their environmental targets or reduce the financial burden of EPR fees.
Recycled plastics offer an effective route to meeting your sustainability goals, saving significant amounts of virgin plastic content, and reducing EPR fees. By closing the loop and keeping plastic in circulation, recycled materials not only contribute to a greener supply chain but also help your company align with both industry regulations and consumer expectations for eco-friendly packaging.
Our composite materials offer unmatched protection for your product content while using minimal material. This ensures that your products are not only well-protected but also meet strict regulatory requirements for safety and sustainability.
Traditional materials often compromise between protection and material usage, making it harder to maintain product integrity without increasing the carbon footprint or failing regulatory standards.
Our advanced barrier structures, whether hard or soft, are specifically designed to extend the shelf life of expensive products, protecting them from external factors. This ensures your pharmaceutical and cosmetic products remain effective for longer, with significantly less material usage.
Our bioplastic solutions significantly reduce the environmental impact of your packaging compared to conventional plastic tubes.
While there are some options for bioplastics, many of them are based on materials that do not fully minimise carbon emissions or meet the highest sustainability standards.
Our bioplastic tubes are made from renewable raw materials, such as plant-based materials, which have a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional plastics. These tubes fulfil the most stringent sustainability certifications, including Ecocert and Cosmos, ensuring that you not only reduce your environmental impact but also meet high ecological standards.
Learn how you can translate recyclable tube packaging into a strategic advantage for your brand.
Manufacturing our products is associated with costs and emissions. We save natural resources by optimizing the supply chain, our manufacturing processes and the lifecycle of our packaging. We want to know what impact our business has on the environment and what we can do to protect the environment to the best of our ability. Here are some examples:
All our paints and coatings are UV-resistant and therefore low in solvents.
All our pallets are exclusively (non-chemically) heat-treated. The wood used comes from Switzerland. 71 % of all pallets are reusable.
Our locations in the center of Europe result in short transportation distances to and from our business partners.
34 % of our energy comes from hydroelectric power.
Our cardboard packaging for tubes comprises up to 66 % recycled material.
In the last ten years, we have halved our water consumption through the installation of a central treatment plant.
Through the use of tablets in our production process, we are saving more than 500 kilos of paper every year.
85 % of our production waste is sorted and recycled. 15 % of waste is thermally recycled (energy recovery).
By connecting to a pellet heating system in 2014, Neopac has lowered its CO2 emissions by 656 tons per year.
ETMA Tube of the Year 2022
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As a RecyClass and Stina (formerly More Recycling) stakeholder, we work in two directions: The award-winning and recyclable mono-material barrier tubes that fulfil APR and PRE RecyClass guidelines and are recyclable in the existing rigid waste streams in North America & Europe. In the other direction regarding recyclers such as Saperatec or CosPaTox, we promote the sorting and reprocessing of aluminium-based flexible packaging.
Neopac’s Stylo™ Bristle Tube combines precision application, practicality and sustainability for Manucurist’s on-the-go nail care solution.
Company’s Debrecen, Hungary facility passes rigorous audit, ensuring traceability of recycled plastic content.
Polyfoil® MMB tubes used for Colgate’s Elmex toothpaste recognized for innovation and recyclability.
Small-size tubes offer enhanced protection and versatility for pharmaceutical and oral care applications.
The sealability of the PaperX Tubes was rigorously tested on IWK's standard tube filling and sealing equipment in October 2023, marking a significant achievement and validation of Neopac's...
