Cheers! Frugalpac honoured with King’s Award For Enterprise
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British sustainable packaging company Frugalpac, which produces the Frugal Bottle – the paper bottle for wines and spirits – has been honoured with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation.
Frugal Bottle is made from 94% recycled paperboard, has a carbon footprint 84% lower than a glass bottle and has been produced to decarbonise the global drinks industry.
As well as being found in the wines and spirits aisles at Aldi and Sainsbury’s supermarkets, 45 brands around the world are using the bottles in over 25 countries including the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the UK, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, France and other European countries.
Employing 27 people, the company was founded in 2011 and from its innovation centre in Ipswich, Suffolk, it looks to reduce the impact of carbon on the planet by engineering sustainable packaging, using recycled paperboard, that’s easy to recycle again.
An Intertek study commissioned by Frugalpac, found a Frugal Bottle has a carbon footprint up to six times (84%) lower than a glass bottle and more than a third less than a bottle made from 100% recycled plastic. Its water footprint is also four times lower than glass and it uses up to 77% less plastic than a plastic bottle.
In addition to its impressive eco credentials, the shatterproof bottles weigh just 83g and are lighter to carry and transport – making them ideal for outdoor leisure and sporting events, and for the travel sector.
CEO Malcolm Waugh said, ‘It is a great honour to have our pioneering work recognised at this highest level.
‘Our team is passionate about finding innovative low carbon solutions to reduce the impact of incumbent packaging on our planet and this award is all down to them.
‘Working with like minded stakeholders around the world, we are realising our vision of establishing Frugal Bottle hubs around the world to produce our paper bottles to help decarbonise the global wine and spirits industry.
‘From our Ipswich base, our goal continues to be to save the planet one bottle at a time by cutting the carbon footprint of wine and spirits bottles by 84%. We are also delighted that His Majesty and Her Majesty have seen our Frugal Bottles at first hand and we hope they enjoyed the wine!’
