ROBERTS Mart & Co Ltd has added a beverage company found in Iceland to its portfolio of European customers using its compostable packaging.
The firm specialises in printed flexible packaging, saying it is responding with greener alternatives to the demand for more sustainable solutions.
Te & Kaffi will now be supplied with compostable printed packaging from the Yorkshire-based firm, in a deal worth £350,000 a year.
Currently, the firm supplies packaging to companies in France, Belgium and Spain – with it revealing that potential customers in Germany and Switzerland are being spoken to, as well as the UK.
Simon Roberts, commercial director at Roberts Mart & Co Ltd, said, “It’s a challenging market but our sustainable products are being very well received as they fit in with the climate the customers are operating in. It’s an ongoing relationship with Te & Kaffi and they now consider us as their number one supplier – after the materials they buy for the coffee itself!”
Stefán u.Wernersson, production manager at Te & Kaffi, added,“We had been looking for compostable material for our packaging for a long time and always had issues with the right barrier on this type of material. Roberts Mart delivered exactly what we wanted and, after trials, offered the right packaging solution for our needs. We now have a circular solution in Iceland where packaging from us goes into a local industrial compost facility that produces methane gas for us to roast more coffee!”
