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As a pioneer in molded fiber packaging, RyPax has already started offering smart packaging enhancement options to their customers. The company supplies customers with E Ink’s e-paper digital displays or PBrain’s chatbot technologies on its eco-friendly packaging solutions. RyPax’s molded fiber packaging with E Ink’s ePaper digital displays can display critical product information and user instructions prominently, conveying the message in a more straightforward manner and thus improving patient adherence. This technology can also integrate with electronics to monitor and verify the product status, creating a connected, interactive user interface on the product packaging. In light of this new development, the need for sustainability also becomes an important consideration. Many packaging company leaders are already reviewing their entire process, to ensure that their companies work towards a greener future.
Consequently, RyPax also focuses on the sustainability side by developing a smart sustainable packaging solution that will provide cost savings and help improve the patient experience with the product. Alvin Lim, the CEO of RyPax, informs, “By featuring a chatbot technology on RyPax molded fiber boxes, user manuals are converted into a digital interactive experience.” This results in a 50 percent reduction in user manual thickness, 20 percent reduction in box profile, and ultimately 20 percent reduction in storage and freight costs.
What steers RyPax to the forefront of technological advancement for the industry is its team of well-trained and experienced engineers who are constantly on the search for the most advanced solutions to offer the clients. As a leading manufacturer, RyPax has co-developed advanced equipment and processes with partners to tailor-make products to meet specific requirements. These achievements include using compostable and recyclable materials, tooling design, packaging performance tests, quality assurance, FSC certification, and many more. “RyPax Smart Molded Fiber packaging solutions are the perfect fit for forward-thinking pharmaceutical companies as they move into the future,” says Lim. RyPax is constantly on the search for the most advanced solutions to offer its clients. This includes initiatives like collaborating with universities to conduct research and development into more ecofriendly ideas, expanding the use of molded fiber into product packaging, and more.
RyPax Smart Molded Fiber packaging solutions are the perfect fit for forward-thinking pharmaceutical companies as they move into the future
Company
RyPax
Management
Alvin Lim, CEO
Description
As the pioneering molded fiber packaging specialist, RyPax now offers the additional benefits of smart packaging with its sustainable packaging solutions. As a pioneer in molded fiber packaging, RyPax has already started offering smart packaging enhancement options to their customers. The company supplies customers with E Ink’s e-paper digital displays or PBrain’s chatbot technologies on its eco-friendly packaging solutions. RyPax’s molded fiber packaging with E Ink’s ePaper digital displays can display critical product information and user instructions prominently, conveying the message in a more straightforward manner and thus improving patient adherence. This technology can also integrate with electronics to monitor and verify the product status, creating a connected, interactive user interface on the product packaging
CelluComp has introduced Curran, a microfibrillated cellulose product derived from discarded root vegetables, into an innovative pulp mixture that also includes bamboo and bagasse. This combination has reportedly yielded a robust material with minimal porosity. The resulting pulp is utilized as a thin lining inside bottles, serving as an alternative to plastic liners.
The recent validation of the all-fibre bottle design by the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) marks a significant development. This advancement is expected to have positive implications for various industries such as beverages, beauty, healthcare, medicine, food, and retail. The innovation holds the potential to reduce waste while aligning with the sustainability goals of consumers, governments, and internal initiatives.
RyPax and CelluComp are now poised to collaborate with DTI to further enhance fiber-based packaging solutions. These plans encompass the development of fiber screw threads, caps, thinner coatings, and more intricate branding possibilities for bottles made from this fiber-based material.
“Integrating RyPax’s and CelluComp’s proven technology, materials and production expertise to produce the industry’s first all-fibre bottle at scale is a major evolution for the industry,” said Christian Kemp-Griffin, CEO of CelluComp. “Our unique capabilities and entrepreneurial approach, including establishing a Minnesota-based Public Benefit Corp. to better serve U.S. operations, has finally produced a design most packaged goods companies, and their consumers, have been longing for.”
“Combining our global expertise in fibre packaging design and production, with CelluComp’s creative ingredient solution, we’re looking at true barrier packaging breakthrough,” continued Alvin Lim, CEO of RyPax. “This initiative will remove millions of tons of plastic waste from the environment.”
Alexander Bardenstein, business development manager with DTI, added: “This collaboration and design is something the industry has been waiting to see for a very long time and we’re excited a solution is now available. The RyPax/CelluComp bottle has been through all of our comprehensive testing to earn our endorsement and allows them to start tailoring this technology for the global marketplace.”