The first customer to commercialize Sealio®, a new style of paper-based container having some strong sustainable packaging advantages, is the DMK Baby division of German dairy producer DMK Group. The firm saw it as the perfect format for its new line of powdered infant milk formula, an initiative in which it invested millions of euros. Sealio was not the only packaging format DMK Baby looked at, but it quickly became the option that made the most sense.
Developed by Å&R Carton of Sweden, Sealio is an advanced sequel to the well-established Å&R packaging system known as Cekacan®. Aimed at the food industry, especially for packaging of various powders, the three main paper-based components of Cekacan—body, bottom, and top membrane—are delivered as flat blanks and then formed into containers. This is what makes it advantageous from a sustainable packaging perspective, since shipping flat blanks to a customer facility requires far fewer trucks and consumes far less fuel than is required when shipping formed empty containers.
