Coveris wins Green Packaging Star Award 2025

European packaging manufacturer Coveris was honoured at this year's Green Packaging Star Awards for its innovative SleeveFlexR stretch solution. The sleeves, which can be recycled via existing collection streams, impressed the jury in the ‘Environmentally Friendly Production Process’ category. The award was presented during the FachPack trade fair in Nuremberg.

The Green Packaging Star Awards are presented annually by the Austrian trade journal Kompack in cooperation with the Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry. The awards are intended to showcase groundbreaking developments and promote a more sustainable approach to packaging.

In line with its no-waste vision, Coveris has launched SleeveFlexR Stretch, the first solution on the market that enables a true sleeve-to-sleeve recycling loop, the manufacturer explains. The lightweight, elastic sleeves are designed for applications in the beverage, dairy, household and personal care, and specialty and agrochemical sectors. Depending on the variant, they contain up to 75 per cent high-quality post-consumer recycled (PCR) material and can be recycled using Coveris' proprietary ReCover recycling technology.

’Winning the Green Packaging Star Award underscores our innovative strength and our strong commitment to the circular economy,’ says Christian Kolarik, CEO of Coveris. ’With our new sleeve solution, we have demonstrated that resource efficiency, recyclability and brand presence can be seamlessly combined.’