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In professional Catering the strategic goals are operational efficiency, food waste reduction and sustainability.

Cook & Freeze process, sustainable raw materials and packaging are the three pillars to reach those goals. Ready to eat, deep frozen quality meals prepared and cooked by professional chefs are of great help in increasing kitchen’s efficiency, balancing work loads and adding variety to the menus.

This goes hand in hand with high performance and sustainable food packaging, contributing to efficiency in preparation, service and waste management.

BIOPAP® solutions are designed to resist down to – 90°C without becoming brittle, and to withstand high reheating temperature up to 185°C to ensure optimal organoleptic performance and short service times.

Moreover BIOPAP® food packaging solutions are made from certified renewable resources PEFC, with a fully European supply chain and are certified compostable in both industrial and domestic equipment but also perfectly recyclable in the paper stream when clean.

KNORR Professional has chosen compostable BIOPAP® ½ GN Containers for its High Convenience meal range.

Premium quality meals together with high performance and sustainable packaging, the perfect combination to save time and resources.

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Our Head-Quarter and part of Plant 1 is celebrating in 2025 20 years from its erection, the first Bioclimatic industrial building of its kind.

Entirely built with a lamellar wood structure and mineralized wood chip walls it has been storing already since 2 decades over 300 T of Carbon captured in the Atmosphere. Mineralized wood chip walls are 1/5th of the weight of traditional concrete and 3 times more insulating.

The bioclimatic design made by Architects Nastasha Pulitzer and Antonio Los takes into consideration the position of the building against the sun path during the seasons, reducing energy intake in summer and maximizing intake in winter time.

Indirect sunlight is caught through large skylights ensuring natural lighting throughout the year. Artificial light is used only few hours a day during the winter season. Natural Light, High ceilings, clear natural walls and Wooden atmosphere ensure wellbeing for the body and the mid. The solar power plant on its roofs has been installed in 2009 and has been saving in 15 years of activity over 430 T of CO2 emissions.
The original power of 70 kWp power it will be revamped this year to 140 kWp ensuring 100% autonomous electricity production for the building and industrial activities together with the solar power Plant 3.

At BIOPAP we never stop innovating our eco-system, our sustainable food packaging solutions, our infrastructures and our technologies, always pushing boundaries in eco-design. We offer food producers and caterers tools to enhance efficiency and customer food experience, reducing landfilling and incineration by driving more food rest to composing, giving back to nature in biological circularity.

Everyday we want to show that sustainability is not only beneficial but also affordable.

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Sustainable Communities Begin with Compost.

This has been our goal since the start of our venture at BIOPAP®. This is also the 2025 theme for the International Compost Awareness Week. With professional and domestic use of BIOAP® Food containers and packaging solutions we have been promoting composting for over 20 years in all kinds of communities and at any scale. BIOPAP® Trays are CIC, OK Compost HOME and BPI certified compostable – from backyard home composters, to community composters, to large-scale facilities to all those who recognize the many benefits of using compost in soils.

The 2025 ICAW ‘s theme was chosen by all of the international partners who are part of the International Compost Alliance – making it truly an international theme.  This year’s theme was inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.”

The goal is valid for all countries and all continents, from large cities to local villages, from farms to fields and forests, composting is an essential element in developing sustainable communities. Composting allows communities to manage their own waste locally, create local job opportunities and support healthy soils with locally made compost, supporting local farming. By collecting food rests and food waste together with compostable packaging we’re repurposing the food that otherwise would go into the landfill or incineration. In the contrary by composting food waste, we’re creating fresh nutrients for the soil, which regenerates the earth and provides healthier food for everyone in the community.

Composting needs everyone’s commitment and every citizen must become an actor of this virtuous cycle, no matter the size of your home, garden, or community! Together, through the power of compost, we can create a more sustainable future for our communities!

Do not forget some of the strong benefits from organic recycling and compost use:

• Composting reduces methane emissions through aerobic managed decomposition providing for a more sustainable community.
• Composting lowers greenhouse gasses by improving carbon sequestration in the soil. Getting the carbon back into the soil serves as a “carbon bank,” helping to store carbon thereby removing it from the atmosphere.
• Compost provides essential nutrients for plants, promoting vibrant gardens and farms. Healthier soil leads to healthier, more nutritious food for our communities.
• Compost use increases the water-holding capacity of our soils; important as our communities are more and more often seeing drought and or intense rain events causing soil runoff and erosion.
• Community Gardens and Green Spaces: Compost plays a vital role in community gardens, fostering green spaces that provide fresh produce, recreational opportunities, and community gathering places.

Congratulations to Abbie Sawyer from Athens, Georgia, 2025’s winner of the ICAW 2025 Poster Contest. We love it!

So, let’s compost all together.

Revolutionizing MealService in Zagreb: Biopap® patented EasyGenius, deployed at University Hospital Centre with Extrapoint and Valter Berneš!

One Solution, Endless Benefits! As hospitals, catering services, and institutions face mounting challenges in hygiene, sustainability, and cost-efficiency, Biopap® The revolutionary EasyGenius Meal Tray delivers a game-changing answer. Now successfully deployed at University Hospital Zagreb, this award-winning meal system is proving its worth where it matters most.

Why BIOPAP® EasyGenius Meal Tray?

✔ Hygienic & Safe: Individually sealed meals prevent contamination, ideal for infectious wards and oncology patients. No contact between staff and food ensures 100% sterility.
✔ Sustainable & Circular: Made from renewable, compostable materials, reducing CO2 emissions by 66% compared to plastic trays. No washing, no plastic waste, fully compliant with EU regulations!
✔ Cost-Efficient & Practical: Eliminates dishwashing, reduces staff workload, and optimizes meal logistics. Meals can be chilled, frozen, transported, and regenerated on-site up to 175°C!
✔ Lightweight & Versatile: Half-Gastro size ensures easy stacking and transport, reducing GHGemissions and physical strain on personnel.
Zagreb’s Challenge, Our Solution! With kitchen renovations at Croatia’s largest hospital, 3,000 daily meals needed a safe, efficient alternative. Biopap® EasyGenius Meal Tray seamlessly stepped in, ensuring continuous, high-quality meal service without an operational kitchen.
As a result, the hospital not only tackled a temporary crisis but has decided to keep BIOPAP ® EasyGenius Meal Tray for long-term use in high-risk wards!
Future of Food Service is Here! From hospitals to emergency response, military catering to large-scale events, EasyGenius transforms meal service worldwide. Ready to elevate your operations with our unique, patented solution?

#EasyGenius #SustainableCatering #Zagreb #HospitalityInnovation #CircularEconomy #FoodServiceRevolution

The compostable, paper based BIOPAP® ATLAS hot meal casserole sets a new milestone in carbon footprint reduction for the airline catering.

INNOV HUB, the prominent Italian laboratory has just performed a Cradle-to-Grave LCA assessment on the innovative and compostable BIOPAP ATLAS SI 25 Hot meal casserole comparing it to the traditional Aluminium casserole.

The result is groundbreaking: BIOPAP ATLAS offers 2,5 times less CO2 emissions.

The impact is massive: The replacement of existing Aluminium casserole with the innovative BIOPAP® SI25 casserole will allow a saving of 35.6 KgCO2 emissions per 1.000 units. Considering an annual distribution of 40.000.000 units the saving would correspond to 1.424.960 KgCO2/year.

As far as CO2 emissions are concerned, this value corresponds approximately to the average CO2 emissions of 11.874.667 km using a medium-sized car.

If we take into consideration the average absorption of a tree in a year (about 7,5 kg CO₂/year), this value is equivalent to the CO₂ absorption of 189.995 trees/year.

The combination of high engineering design and automated manufacturing combined with 20 years’ experience in sustainable and compostable food packaging solutions has delivered this outstanding result. BIOPAP® ATLAS SI 25 hot meal casserole has been specifically designed to best perform in airline catering offering natural touch and feel and superior food passenger experience while offering also a smooth waste management turning waste into valuable resources through composting both food rests and BIOPAP® casseroles.

By using BIOPAP® ATLAS SI 25 casserole the airlines are directly benefiting form a significant carbon food print reduction in their operation and contribute to reduce the catering environmental impact, becoming fully circular. A growing number of Airports are starting and running own composting plants reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also creating a virtuous cycle with the neighbouring agricultural activities.

BIOPAP® Atlas hot meal tray is a powerful tool: OK compost Home, BPI and CIC certified, with a fully European supply chain based on renewable raw materials coming only from well-manged PEFC certified forests.

Scaling up BIOPAP® ATLAS SI 25 is easy, it can be directly used on existing automated high speed crimping lines.

With the up-coming WTCE fair in Hamburg, next week, this is going to be a key factor in discussions for the Airlines and more and more for the Airport Authorities also. Turn airline catering sustainable and circular.

BIOPAP® EASY GENIUS Compostable Meal Tray Shortlisted for the Irish Foodservice Supplier Award

We are thrilled to announce that our BIOPAP® EASY GENIUS Compostable Meal Tray has been shortlisted in the Best Environmentally Sustainable Packaging category at the Irish Foodservice Supplier Award. This recognition highlights the sustainable innovation engineered and patented by BIOPAP®.

Addressing Key Environmental Challenges in Foodservice

The food service sector faces significant environmental challenges that require urgent attention:

• Reducing carbon emissions
• Minimizing food waste
• Eliminating single-use plastics
• Managing water consumption

BIOPAP® solutions are designed to tackle all these challenges head-on. Our LCA Cradle to Grave assessment reveals a remarkable 66% reduction in the carbon footprint of BIOPAP® food trays when compared to traditional PP or CPET containers—significantly reducing CO2 emissions in catering operations.

Sustainable Materials and Certifications

Made from renewable cellulose sourced from responsibly managed forests certified under the PEFC scheme, BIOPAP® food trays are not only eco-friendly but also #compostable. Certified under EN 13432 CIC, with on-field disintegration testing, our trays also carry OK Compost Home and BPI certifications.

At the end of service, no washing, no water, no detergent is needed. Simply dispose of the food remnants and trays together, where they will break down into high-quality compost—supporting agricultural sustainability and reducing reliance on fossil-based fertilizers.

Efficient, Sustainable, and Waste-Reducing

The BIOPAP® EASY GENIUS Compostable Meal Tray optimizes meal preparation and service, ensuring a smoother, more efficient workflow. It is perfectly suited for Cook & Chill, Cook & Serve, and Cook & Freeze processes, allowing for significant reductions in food waste.

A big thank you to KIERNAN’s Food Ingredients for their continued support of BIOPAP®’s sustainable innovations!

Together, we can make a meaningful impact on the environment.

Italy Championing in recycling of packaging waste and organic waste treatment, BIOPAP® forerunner in compostable, high-performance food packaging solutions.

The recycling of packaging waste in Italy continues reaching levels of European excellence: in 2023 it reached 75.3%, up from 70.7% in 2022, exceeding not only the European 65% target by 2025, but also that of 70% by 2030.

The results have been published on Friday 13 December 2024 at the National Conference of the Recycling Industry, promoted by the Foundation for Sustainable Development in collaboration with Conai and Pianeta 2030, the monthly magazine of Corriere della Sera, under the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, Ispra and the National System for Environmental Protection.

Almost all supply chains exceed the European targets: paper and cardboard 92.3%, steel 87.8%, glass 77.4% (even if it is down by 3.4% if compared to the previous year), aluminum 70.3%, wood 64.9% and bioplastics 56.9%.

In Italy certified compostable packaging are processed together with urban organic waste in organic recycling plants. Typically, BIOPAP® certified compostable trays and meal trays used by professional caterers for school, corporate, hospital catering are collected with food residues in biowaste and turned to quality compost.

Italy is a forerunner in biowaste collection and treatment. Today it has a capacity for treating organic waste (green and organic municipal waste) that guarantees the self-sufficiency of the national System with a network of 357 plants distributed throughout the territory treating approximately 5 Mt of municipal waste, including compostable food packaging and compostable bioplastic products.

About 52 million inhabitants are involved in intensive collection schemes for biowaste (foodwaste + greenwaste) diverting about 7,4 Mtons of biowaste from disposal to recycling, converted into compost and turned back to agriculture, landscaping and orchards. Moreover the integration of composting with the anaerobic digestion process also made it possible to obtain approximately 409 Mm³ of biogas, part of which used for the production of electricity (approximately 411 GWh) and thermal energy (approximately 169 GWh).

A success for the circular bioeconomy, using local resources, creating local jobs and helping in significantly reducing CO2 and Methane emission from organic waste landfilling or incineration.

At BIOPAP we have been believing in circular Bio-economy for over 22 years now. All our food packaging solutions have been eco-designed with renewable and non-agricultural raw materials and certified compostable to allow an even larger share of food waste collection to the composting stream.

CIC estimates about 2.000 workers directly employed in biowaste sector and 10.000 employees in the other activities related to the biowaste recycling (i.e. collection, technical support for planning and building plants, activities to promote the use of compost), with steady growth prospects in the future.

BIOPAP® winner of the “Best Packaging Innovation of the Decade” at GULFOOD Manufacturing Industry Excellence Awards 2024.

Gulfood Manufacturing 2024 edition has a been a true milestone for BIOPAP® compostable food packaging solutions. We have been honored with the outstanding award for the Best Packaging Innovation of the Decade that testifies our steady commitment to innovation and to sustainable food packaging.

The 10 years edition has recognized groundbreaking innovations from the past decade and game-changing contributions that are redefining industry standards and inspiring progress.

The Manufacturing Industry Excellence  Awards are honoring the trailblazing pioneers whose innovative products and technologies have revolutionized the F&B manufacturing industry. These awards are a testament to the relentless pursuit of technological advancements that enhance productivity, offer increased convenience, and drive sustainable development.

Thank you to all visitors for showing such an appreciation for our compostable food containers, lidding and heat-sealable solutions, made in Italy. We have noticed a real jump in professionals and institutions awareness and the will to commit to sustainability in every day’s activities, from airline catering to institutional kitchens, from school and hospital catering to meal delivery services from independent restaurant and hotel chains.

The stand was simply superb, together with our associates of NOVACART. A display of our present technology with a capsule on the awarded @BIOPAP Easy Genius Meal Tray, is the revolutionary, self-supporting, fully compostable meal tray. It allows increased efficiency and hygiene in central kitchen preparation, it is light, thus saving resources and transport costs. BIOPAP®  Easy Genius Meal Tray is safe, stiff, easy to handle, ready for serving complete meals Hot or Cold, with each compartment that can be opened separately in the desired sequence. At the end of the service meal trays and food rests can be composted without separation, giving excellent compost quality for organic and traditional farming.

Join us creating a revolution in professional catering with improved service and customer experience and a fully compostable end-of-life with no separation with food rests.

With BIOPAP we want to show that sustainability is not only possible but is also affordable and beneficial to the entire value chain, to agriculture and the whole planet.

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH2x5_ONJ0

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Let’s meet in Dubai at Gulfood Manufacturing 2024!
From 5th to 7th November we will present our products and all latest innovations.

📍You will find us in SHEIKH SAEED Hall 3, Stand S3-B34

We are also thrilled to announce that Biopap® has been nominated for the prestigious Gulfood Manufacturing Industry Excellence Awards 2024 for the “Best Packaging Innovation of the Decade” with Biopap® Easy Genius Meal Tray, our fully compostable self-supporting tray integrated with Biopap® food containers.

A big thank you to everyone who has supported our journey so far.
We’ll keep you updated on our progress.

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#compostabletrays #innovativepackagingsolutions #fullycompostable #fullcircularity