The choice of which paperboard to use was therefore crucial. Of course when perforations replace creases, the risk is that they cannot sufficiently protect the pack’s contents.

What’s unique with the Cefapac solution is that we chose to replace all the traditional creases with perforations, which gives the desired openability.” As its designer, Eirik Faukland, the packaging veteran in charge of R&D at Moltzau, explains, “To get around the well-known problem of the extreme difficulty of opening plastic blister packs, the basic concept was to replace the plastic with paperboard. Now Norwegian converter Moltzau has brought us an easy-to-open, eco-friendly alternative – made from Iggesund’s super-versatile Invercote paperboard.Ĭalled Cefapac, this packaging is already scooping up awards for the ingenious nature of its construction. In an age when we seem to be able to recycle absolutely everything, these packs still go instead into our landfills.

They also make people upset for another reason. Few things get the blood boiling quite like those plastic blister packs that regularly insert themselves between us and whatever item we’re trying to lay our hands on at the moment, from batteries to picture hangers and – even more maddeningly still – the very scissors that we need to open the blasted things in the first place.

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