Frugalpac, a Britian-based sustainable packaging company has secured the first customer for its paper bottle machine which makes the Frugal Bottle – the world’s first and only commercially available wine, spirits and olive oil bottle made from recycled paper.
Canadian packaging firm KinsBrae Packaging has agreed a deal to buy the first Frugal Bottle Assembly Machine – called FBAM-1 and install it in Canada. The FBAM-1 is capable of producing more than two and a half million Frugal Bottles a year.
The Frugal Bottle is made from 94% recycled paperboard with a food grade pouch and offers 360-degree branding for exceptional shelf stand-out.
Malcolm Waugh, CEO of Frugalpac announced the deal at the London Wine Fair, one of the largest wine fairs in the world – two years after launching the first Frugal Bottle in June 2020 with Cantina Goccia’s 3Q wine in the UK.
Now over 25 different drinks producers from around the world have launched wines, spirits and olive oils in the Frugal Bottle. They include The English Vine’s No1 white wine, Signal 7 Wines in the US, Spain’s Planet B by Bodegas Murviedro and a range of red, white and rosé wines from the UK’s leading provider of wine in alternative packaging, When In Rome.
KinsBrae Packaging, which is based in Cambridge, Ontario, will seek to meet the local Canadian and USA demand of the total global 120 million Frugal Bottles enquiries received by Frugalpac. This huge enquiry list is driven by the fact Frugal Bottles are made from 94% recycled paperboard, are five times lighter than a glass bottle and use 84% less carbon than glass.
Waugh said, “It is clear consumers are keen on more sustainable forms of packaging and this is a great opportunity for packaging companies, bottlers and the print industry.”
“We currently have a further 87 companies keen to acquire a Frugal Bottle Assembly Machine. Our aim is to place these paper bottle machines at the heart of a bottling plant, co-packers or local packaging companies so we can reduce the carbon footprint of our sustainable packaging even further and have Frugal Bottle hubs around the world,” concluded Waugh.
Frugalpac was recently praised by the UK Government’s Department for International Trade’s GREAT Britain campaign as one of the UK organisations “to help build a global sustainable future” in the run up to last year’s COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.