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UNIBAGS takes e-commerce to the next level: Modular boxes for optimised, eco-friendly shipping
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

UNIBAGS takes e-commerce to the next level: Modular boxes for optimised, eco-friendly shipping

A leading custom packaging reference for over 20 years, UNIBAGS offers a comprehensive range of premium packaging solutions: paper bags, e-commerce packaging, cotton bags, boxes, and gift sets.

[New Material] With Nisiar, Mondin invents a plant-based alternative to animal leather.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

[New Material] With Nisiar, Mondin invents a plant-based alternative to animal leather.

In the new economy, leather has often been discussed, but the material in question today is not leather. It’s a synthetic material made from grape marc by the young company Mondin, based in the technocity of Bayonne. Rodolphe Mondin and Julien Housseaux, co-founders and partners, came to see us as neighbors. Their journey is remarkable. These two childhood friends reunited at the Toulouse Business School. It was after their studies that they decided to start their own business.

[New material] Instead transforms beer waste into high-end furniture
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

[New material] Instead transforms beer waste into high-end furniture

In France alone, several million liters of beer are produced each year. On average, 300 kilograms of malt are needed to make 1000 liters of beer. It’s the husk of this cereal that becomes the spent grains. Suffice it to say that brewers have an abundance of them. Craftsman and designer, Franck Grossel, has been working for two years to give a second life to these spent grains by transforming them into high-end furniture made in France through his brand, Instead.

[New Material] Cilkoa revolutionizes packaging with its biodegradable coating.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

[New Material] Cilkoa revolutionizes packaging with its biodegradable coating.

The Grenoble-based startup is on the verge of disrupting the food and cosmetics industry with its breakthrough innovation: an ultra-thin coating of alumina that provides paper and cardboard with new mechanical properties.

[New Material] La Tannerie végétale is developing an alternative to animal leather: A material based on vegetable proteins and tannins
Monday, January 13, 2025

[New Material] La Tannerie végétale is developing an alternative to animal leather: A material based on vegetable proteins and tannins

Neither vegetable leather nor faux leather.

Les Ateliers Du Sac : Des matériaux propres et recyclables au cœur de leur savoir faire
Monday, January 13, 2025

Les Ateliers Du Sac : Des matériaux propres et recyclables au cœur de leur savoir faire

Créés en 2021 par Cyril-Alexandre Blanc, Les Ateliers du Sac est la première – et la seule – usine de fabrication de shoping bags de luxe 100% française.

[StartUp] WASTEA : A new material made from tea waste revolutionizing the fashion industry
Monday, January 13, 2025

[StartUp] WASTEA : A new material made from tea waste revolutionizing the fashion industry

Wastea emerges as a novel choice to traditional leather, ingeniously repurposing tea waste that would otherwise be disposed of in landfills or burned

3 Questions to Favini
Monday, January 13, 2025

3 Questions to Favini

Favini is a company with a long history of innovation in paper manufacturing since the end of XVIII century and now is a global producer of graphics specialities.

Florian Kohler, Gmund: « It’s easy to offer paper, but infinitely more interesting to understand what will help a brand stand out »
Monday, January 13, 2025

Florian Kohler, Gmund: « It’s easy to offer paper, but infinitely more interesting to understand what will help a brand stand out »

Gmund is renowned in the packaging world for its luxurious ranges of colored papers. Florian Kohler, CEO of the family-owned Bavarian manufacturer, discusses the future of non-cellulose materials, Gmund’s acquisition of French supplier Cartonnerie Jean FG and the Unfolded Festival, the cultural event that is breaking industry codes. Read the interview, previously published in Formes de Luxe’s print magazine, below.

What lies ahead for James Cropper?
Monday, January 13, 2025

What lies ahead for James Cropper?

British papermaker James Cropper has embarked on a « transformation plan ». How is this set to impact its luxury business? Richard Bracewell, promoted Managing Director of the Creative Papers & Luxury Packaging division in August 2023 and Tricia Hartmann, Luxury Packaging Global Lead, talk to Formes de Luxe about James Cropper’s strategic roadmap, and the luxury trends that are guiding developments in its molded pulp packaging activity.

KURZ is working on reducing the carrier material of all our products in the graphic industry
Monday, January 13, 2025

KURZ is working on reducing the carrier material of all our products in the graphic industry

The KURZ Group is a global leader in hot-stamping and thin film technology. KURZ develops and produces decorative and functional layers applied to carrier foil for different industries, from the packaging and printing industry to the automotive sector and the electronics, card, and textile sectors

Meet YUTO, an international industry-leading superior packaging solution provider
Monday, January 13, 2025

Meet YUTO, an international industry-leading superior packaging solution provider

YUTO is a leading provider of superior packaging solutions and services. We offer integrated one-stop packaging solutions and sustainable and intelligent manufacturing services for Fortune 500 companies and a wide range of industries and applications worldwide. YUTO was founded in 1996 with headquarters in Shenzhen and has been listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under stock code 002831 since 2016. YUTO now boasts a 20,000-strong workforce with over 50 manufacturing centers across the globe and dedicated project teams serving clients in Consumer Electronics, Wine and Spirits, Personal Care, Food, Healthcare, Tabacco and other sectors. YUTO also provides diverse industrial and product solutions in technology sectors beyond packaging.