Stora Enso’s eco-friendly product for fresh fish packaging, EcoFishBox, continues to gain traction in the Nordic market. The latest company to make the switch from EPS packaging (expanded polystyrene) to EcoFishBox™ is Finnish fish packaging company Tuomaan Kalatukku. The company, which packages around one thousand tonnes of fish per year, has made the move from plastics to the award-winning corrugated solution. The driver was to minimise use of fossil-based materials but also to save on storage space and cost.
“The environmental friendliness of the packaging was a key selection criterion for us, along with cost and transport benefits,” says Tuomaan Kalatukku’s CEO, Jari Tainio. “With a corrugated solution our customers, the fish resellers, can recycle the easily-flattened EcoFishBox, which also saves on waste processing costs.”
“We are pleased to have yet another customer onboard that recognises the benefits of phasing out less environmental-friendly packaging materials in favour of wood-fibre based products,” says Vesa Penttinen, Business Development Manager, Stora Enso Packaging Solutions. “Our EcoFishBox concept offers the fish industry a cost-effective means to reduce the use of plastics while also ensuring high food hygiene standards.” The leak-tight EcoFishBox is delivered as flat sheets on a pallet and the boxes are raised by an erecting machine, or by hand, thus facilitating up to an 85% saving on storage space.
