Jan 3, 2017

New packaging introduced from tomato plants

Pure Hothouse Foods has recently introduced their new Cloud 9 snacking tomato brand, sold under the Pure Flavor name. To pack this new tomato brand, Pure Hothouse Foods decided to use solid board enriched with tomato plant fibers produced by Solidus Solutions, manufacturer of solid board and solid board packaging.

Pure Hothouse Foods is the first Canadian company packing tomatoes in their own plant fibers, according to the company. During the PMA 2016 fair the Cloud 9 tomato plant packaging achieved a finalist nomination at the PMA 2016 Impact Awards. The packaging was announced winner of the Packaging Europe Sustainability Awards 2016.

Idyl, based in the south of France, is now packing its organic tomatoes in Solidus Solutions’ trays enriched with tomato plants fibers.

Solidus Solutions earlier produced 1.5 kg, 3 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg solid board tomato trays, enriched with tomato plant fibers and even 250 to 500 g tomato punnets for consumers.