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Live at interpack: Barrier Paper Replaces Plastic as nucao's Primary Packaging

This ambitious chocolate start-up now packages its products exclusively in paper, using a new barrier paper, Koehler NexPlus Advanced. It meets the demand for sustainable primary packaging for the food industry

Koehler NexPlus Advanced, used in this application, has a good oxygen, mineral oil, and grease barrier.
Koehler NexPlus Advanced, used in this application, has a good oxygen, mineral oil, and grease barrier.

Chocolate start-up nucao is shaking up the chocolate market, becoming what Koehler Paper says is the first chocolate manufacturer to embrace primary packaging made from paper. It launched chocolate products “nucao fruits” and “nucao nuts” in paper primary packaging at the end of 2022.Nucao

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