Packaging

Through packaging optimization projects, we are customizing the size and thickness of our corrugated cardboard boxes and plastic bags. That means that we transport less air and more bread on every truck that leaves our warehouses.

Without plastic tonnes of fresh bread would go to waste every day. Plastic protects a bread product from growth of micro-organisms, drying and staling and extends the food's shelf life. The most important role of plastic packaging is therefore to protect the bread product and prevent food waste – which is a great burden for the climate. But despite plastics unique qualities as a packaging material in the food industry, using an unnecessary amount of plastic for packaging is a waste of resources across the full value chain.

In Lantmännen Unibake we commit ourselves to reduce our overall plastics consumption by optimizing size and thickness of the bags. Making 100% of all our packaging materials recyclable by using mono-materials is also at the top of our sustainability agenda.

Lantmännen Unibake’s products come in many shapes and sizes. But they all need to fit into a square cardboard box before the products are loaded onto trucks and distributed to supermarkets, restaurants, and such. Because of the products’ many sizes and the quadratic shape of a cardboard box it is a bit of a puzzle to optimize the fill up of the boxes.

Lantmännen Unibake is continually running projects on how to pack more products into the cardboard boxes, and thereby improving both the packaging process and road transportation.

Read more about the logistics program.