Wynn Petfood and Koehler Paper pack wet food blends and snacks for dogs in paper

Paper packaging in the pet food sector holds enormous potential for conserving resources and cutting CO2 emissions

In Germany alone, around 10 million cans of wet food for pets are consumed and discarded on a daily basis. And despite the fact that they are recycled at a good rate, this still results in high resource consumption and CO2 emissions. That is why Wynn Petfood decided to not just limit itself to creating innovative food offerings that are both practical and healthy for pets, but also to find sustainable packaging that would match this general vision. “Koehler NexPlus® Advanced” proved to be the perfect packaging paper for this. “We had two requirements when it came to packaging: Our food had to be packed in as resource-efficient a manner as possible, and it also had to be protected as optimally as possible. Koehler Paper not only took on this challenge gladly, but went through every single step together with us. And to top it all off, our customers absolutely love the paper packaging,” says Henrike Ludowig, founder of Wynn Petfood, while describing his company’s collaboration with Koehler Paper. “Paper packaging not only saves space, but is also tremendously easy to dispose of and recycle as wastepaper Our goal for our development work with our customers is to protect the product inside packaging to the greatest extent possible while minimizing the use of resources. And by using paper-based packaging, we get the highest recycling rate of all materials – in fact, 81.5% of paper packaging in circulation in Europe ends up being recycled,” adds Alexander Rauer, Head of Business Development for flexible packaging paper at Koehler Paper.