Issue 04/2018

Coffee capsules & pods
Replacing
aluminium
with paper
The world’s first mass produced coffee capsule
made of paper is set to replace aluminum and plastic
capsules.
The Bremen, Germany based coffee capsule company
Velibre brings onto the market the first Nespresso ® -
compatible coffee capsule made of paper.
“After more than two years of development, which required
over a million Euros of investment, Velibre can finally present
the finished version of our new paper capsule. This capsule
can be put into the home compost as well as in the biowaste
collection bin”, says managing director David Wolf- Rooney.
The serial production has just started and the finished
capsule will be available in the third quarter of 2018. Wolf-
Rooney expects Velibre to produce over 300 million capsules
in the next Year. “We are more than convinced of the giant
potential of our paper capsule. This belief comes from the
enormous interest in the Velibre capsule from various market
leaders in the coffee capsule industry. It also comes from the
concrete offers related to the purchase of Velibre which is in
the double-digit millions. The value of the capsule will develop
throughout the next years towards the 100 Million Euros
level”, reveals David Mr. Wolf-Rooney. He adds: “traditional
coffee capsules produce a huge amount of waste and our
vision is to completely banish the use of plastic or aluminum
capsules from the market. To secure this vision we will make
the Velibre know-how, our technology and our production
capacities freely available to all manufacturers of coffee
capsules. From now on, no company
has to produce environmentally harmful
variants as they can get all the capsules they
want from Velibre. This is the real revolution behind Velibre”.
The newly developed paper capsule supports the
company’s goal to systematically revolutionizing the coffee
capsule market. The paper capsule can be easily recycled via
home compost and – as the only capsule in the world so far –
via organic waste collection systems. The capsule completely
biodegrades to CO 2
, water and biomass after a few weeks,
depending in the composting environment.
The capsule is made of sugarcane fibers. These fibres
are a residual material created in large volumes during the
production of sugar. Therefore, it does not need its own land
for production and it is not in any competition with food. All
materials used are also 100 % free of genetically modified
raw materials. The components of the capsule are already
certified according to the standard EN 13432 for industrial
composting facilities. For the standards Vincotte OK
compost HOME and DIN-certified garden compostable the
corresponding certification processes are in process.
A global patent was established in 2016 for the unique
product and a German utility patent has already been
registered. MT www.velibre.com
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