Metsä Group and Amcor Team Up for Sustainable Food Packaging

Sustainable packaging Metsä Group and Amcor partner to develop moulded fibre-based food packaging solutions

2025-05-12 Source: Metsä/ Amcor 2 min Reading Time

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A new collaboration between Metsä Group and Amcor is bringing together moulded fibre packaging and advanced film liners to create recyclable food trays with high barrier properties — offering a sustainable alternative for a wide range of food applications.

The food tray combines Metsä Group’s Muoto – a recyclable, biodegradable 3D moulded fibre solution – with Amcor’s high-barrier film and lidding technology. (Iakov Filimonov) — The food tray combines Metsä Group’s Muoto – a recyclable, biodegradable 3D moulded fibre solution – with Amcor’s high-barrier film and lidding technology.
(Iakov Filimonov)

Forestry industry company Metsä Group and Amcor have announced a collaboration to develop three-dimensional moulded fibre packaging solutions with lidding and liner for a variety of food applications. Combining Metsä Group’s wood-based moulded fibre product, Muoto, developed by Metsä Spring, with Amcor’s high-barrier film liner and lidding technology, the partnership seeks to deliver innovative fibre-based food packaging that protects perishable food products and extends shelf life.

Made from renewable wood pulp, Muoto is fully recyclable and biodegradable. It can be used in various applications, from takeaway to industrial packing. By integrating Amcor’s laminated film, Muoto gains enhanced functionality, including high-performance sealability.

Jarkko Tuominen, Vice President, Projects, Metsä Spring, said, “Our collaboration with Amcor represents a significant step forward in more sustainable packaging innovation. Metsä Group and Amcor have a longstanding relationship built on a shared commitment to reducing our environmental impact. Together, we are redefining the future of food packaging.”

Amcor offers a variety of fibre-based packaging solutions across its Amfiber global portfolio and speciality carton products. Amcor’s Amfiber products are currently on store shelves across the globe and are available for a wide range of applications, including snacks and confectionery, dry culinary and beverage, meat, dairy, home and personal care, and more. Amcor’s liner technology provides perfect formability and strength to a variety of moulded fibre-based trays to deliver a more sustainable packaging solution with exceptional functionality.

Ilya Syshchikov, Amcor’s Vice President, Fiber, said, “I am excited about this collaboration with our good partner Metsä. Both parties bring a wealth of materials, packaging, and market knowledge to deliver more sustainable solutions to our customers with exceptional quality, functionality, and efficiency.”

The full solution will be recyclable in the paper stream in most markets with a CEPI recyclability score of over 80 percent. In the longer term, the ambition is to develop a fully compostable solution. The first products from this partnership are expected to be commercially available in Europe later this year.

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