LUXE PACK Monaco: Paperseal targets cosmetics market with paper refills

A first-time exhibitor at LUXE PACK Monaco 2023, Australian company Varden’s Paperseal brand is moving beyond food to focus on the cosmetics market with its thermoformed refills made from agricultural by-products. Paperseal (Varden), historically specialized in food packaging, is now targeting the cosmetics market. “Our development is environmentally motivated; it’s [...]

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Luxepack Monaco 2023

For the second year Varden will be attending Luxepack, but this year with a stand and a product launch. We are launching our personal care solid refill, designed to replace the plastic refill bowls that a number of high end cosmetics brands are moving towards. The Varden pack offers the [...]

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Varden named as top 4 finalist in global innovation awards.

Melbourne. Bosch Australia announced today that Varden has been selected as a top 4 finalist in the OpenBosch awards. The Open Bosch Award has been presented since 2019 for open innovation projects that stand out due to their excellent collaboration between startups and Bosch. The award is given by Robert [...]

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Adele comes to the rescue

Varden today revealed a stunning new mural in its Melbourne factory. The mural is by Julian Clavijo, originally from Colombia but now a cult street artist in Australia. Stuart Gordon explained “When Julian offered to paint the mural we leapt at the idea because his philosophy is completely aligned with [...]

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Varden launch a new Pharma line of packaging

Varden is proud to announce that the Paperseal line has hit a new level of performance that takes it into the performance levels needed for standard pharmaceutical products like Aspirin and Paracetamol. Today these packs are made from plastic and aluminium foil. The plastics used can be as many as [...]

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Varden open their new factory for Pilot level production

Melbourne, Australia. Varden today opened their new factory, which has been custom designed to produce up to 50 million units of high performance packaging every year. The factory is 2500m2 and meets the most stringent packaging production regulations, and the high speed production line installed by Robert Bosch Australia, works [...]

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Varden launch the Paperseal brand, “So, who is Bob?”

Bob is the collective noun for a group of seals, and Varden have chosen a seal as the brand image for their new B2C brand: ‘Paperseal’. Beyond the obvious play on words (Paper that Seals in Flavour) Varden chose the origami seal motif because it has a simple childlike purity [...]

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Varden announces a new level of barrier performance with Paperseal

Varden announced its new line of high performance packaging in Melbourne, Australia today. This is a range of packaging solutions based on Varden’s proprietary paper thermoforming process, which creates an amazing seal for flavour and freshness. The paper packaging is bio-based, fully sustainable and recyclable or compostable. Because it is [...]

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Luxepack goes Green, so Varden will attend!

The world’s leading packaging trade show, Luxepack in Monaco is in October, and this year will have a special focus on sustainability. Some of the world’s leading brands are adopting sustainable concepts for their product lines, although the focus is still on secondary packaging. Varden has now achieved performance barriers [...]

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Paper From Plant Waste Can Replace Plastics: Varden Startup Receives $2M Boost

A startup from Australia has plans for global expansion, replacing plastic in items like coffee pods with an eco-friendly paper made from plant waste. The founders of Varden say the solution, called Paperseal, can transform the way consumer packaging is designed, going from single-use plastics that are rarely recycled to [...]

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Study confirms need for urgent transition to a circular economy for plastic

Today, The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ released Breaking the Plastic Wave, one of the most comprehensive and analytically robust studies ever produced on ocean plastics. As a thought partner of the report, the Foundation along with the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and Common Seas, has contributed its expertise on the circular economy and [...]

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Why Plastic Waste Is a C-Suite Issue

Since its invention and widespread introduction into the economy some 70 years ago, plastic has become a valuable part of business and daily life. So much so, in fact, that we have created more than 8.3 billion metric tons of it around the world. If we were able to take all [...]

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Replacing plastic with plant pulp for sustainable packaging attracts a billionaire backer | TechCrunch

In a small suburb of Melbourne, two entrepreneurs are developing a technology that could mean big changes for the packaging industry. Stuart Gordon and Mark Appleford are the co-founders of Varden, a company that has developed a process to take the waste material from sugarcane and convert it into a [...]

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How virgin plastic sabotaged the recycling industry | Fortune

Cut into a hillside in northern Malaysia, amid oil palms and rubber trees, stands a large, open-air warehouse. This is the BioGreen Frontier recycling factory, which opened last November in the village of Bukit Selambau. On a searing-hot afternoon in January, Shahid Ali was working his very first week on the [...]

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Key Australian Businesses Commit to Reducing Plastic Waste

Why Global Citizens Should Care Each year, around 8 million tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans — choking marine life and compromising the livelihoods of communities that rely on oceans, rivers and waterways. Global Citizen campaigns on the United Nations’ Global Goals, including goal 11 for sustainable [...]

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Your Plastic Addiction Is Bankrolling Big Oil – Mother Jones

Let’s say you lost your headphones, so you order replacements on Amazon. They arrive in a blue-and-white Amazon-branded plastic envelope. Inside, there’s a clear plastic bag, and inside that, a hard plastic container, and inside that, finally, the headphones themselves, which are mostly plastic. I know the feeling that comes [...]

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Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet (February 2019)

Despite being one of the most pervasive materials on the planet, plastic and its impact on human health is poorly understood. Human exposure to it grows with increasing plastic production and use. Research into the human health impacts of plastic to date have focused narrowly on specific moments in the [...]

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Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet (May 2019) | Center for International Environmental Law

Amidst growing concern about the impacts of plastic on the oceans, ecosystems, and human health, there’s another largely hidden dimension of the plastic crisis: plastic’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. This report examines each of these stages of the plastic lifecycle to identify the major sources [...]

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Patagonia Mission Statement – Our Reason For Being

We’re in business to save our home planet. Our Reason for Being Our Reason for Being Our Reason for Being Our Reason for Being Our Reason for Being At Patagonia, we appreciate that all life on earth is under threat of extinction. We aim to use the resources we have—our business, our investments, our [...]

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