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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2018 Lab creates paper options for plastic packaging packaging company ecoXpac. Paper a more renewable resource The problem with paper By CASSANDRA PROFITA Oregon Public Broadcasting Packaging designer Ryan Gaither believes in the power of cardboard. He’s laid down a mas- sive sheet of it — as big as a king-size bed — at the Swed- ish-owned BillerudKorsnäs design lab in Portland. He flips the switch on a machine that zips around the cardboard, stabbing and cutting it with a robotic knife. “Basically anything we cre- ate — any design we’re looking to validate – we cut out with this machine,” he said. “This lets us know if we’re on the right track or on a fool’s errand.” When it’s done, he folds the resulting cut-out into a three-di- mensional shape that fits per- fectly around the edge of a lap- top. It’s designed to replace the plastic foam end caps compa- nies use to ship computers. Gaither says inventions like this are helping the company build a growing customer list. “I think now people are more concerned about the impact plastics are having on the envi- ronment,” he said. “Paper pack- aging is a much more renew- able resource. It biodegrades.” A growing number of cam- paigns to ban plastic waste are putting pressure on companies to find alternatives — not just for straws, but for all kinds of plastic packaging. Years ago, the Swed- ish paper company Billerud- Korsnäs acquired a Portland packaging company called Pac- cess. Their office in southwest Portland is now a lab where engineers redesign packaging Cassandra Profita/Oregon Public Broadcasting BillerudKorsnäs designers use a shaking machine to test the protective power of the paper packaging they create. and test out paper products they can sell into a budding market for plastic replacements. Their customers are now using cardboard in place of clear plastic packaging for camping gear. They’re using paper bags instead of plastic ones for food like pasta. The company is even working on a paper soda bottle. Moonshot Tor Lundqvist, head of the Americas division of Billerud- Korsnäs, calls this paper bot- tle initiative a “fly to the moon kind of thing.” The company prides itself on its sustainably managed for- ests. And it has a secret process for making super-strong paper products. “We can use these prod- ucts in solutions where they can actually push out plastic for plastic bags, for instance, or plastic trays and even plastic boxes,” Lundqvist said. Any time you replace plas- tic with paper, he said, it does more than reduce plastic pollu- tion. It also helps with climate change because plastic is made from fossil fuels while the trees used to make paper actually absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But making a beverage bot- tle out of paper is pushing the company to go even further in its mission to challenge con- ventional packaging. “Our CEO wanted us to do something really difficult with our raw material that people thought was not possible to do,” said Lundqvist. “It’s going very well. It looks like we are going to have a product on the market in the near future.” A promotional video on the project shows the process the company is going through to create the paper bottle and test its durability with the Danish Critics say paper packaging isn’t always as sustainable as it looks. The real challenge for BillerudKorsnäs, they say, will be making sure the company’s paper bottle is easily recyclable or biodegradable. Conrad MacKerron, who works for As You Sow — a nonprofit that is teaming up with investors and pushing big manufacturers to change their plastic packaging — has heard about the BillerudKorsnäs paper bottle project, and he says he doubts the company can cre- ate a leak-proof bottle purely out of paper. “The devil’s in the details,” he said. “Paper cups — in gen- eral we think of them as recy- clable, but because of the thin plastic lining a lot of paper mills cannot process them. So they reject the cups, and they go to landfills.” According to Billerud- Korsnäs, the first version of its paper bottle will be released in 2019 and it will have a plas- tic barrier inside. 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Marine Dr., Astoria Clatsop Post 12 FOR L Meanwhile, Billerud- Korsnäs is seeing 25 percent revenue growth year after year. At the company’s lab in Portland, designers slide the laptop with paper end caps into a box and test it to see if the paper can match the protective power of plastic. First, they place it onto a mechanical arm that drops it from 3 feet off the ground. Then, they strap it into a shaking machine that mim- ics the bumps on a delivery truck. Finally, a third machine squeezes it between two metal arms. During each test, designers measure the impact to the lap- top, and so far it looks like the paper is holding up. There are no dents in the box and no dam- age to the laptop inside. That could one day mean more cus- tomers for the company, and more laptops getting shipped in plastic-free packaging. 1132 Exchange Street 325-5771 J OAN H ERMAN A Can the paper match the plastic? Ham Steak Dinner ASTORIA AMERICAN LEGION Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA tic they found. The groups that organized the cleanup are now calling on the top manufac- turers of that plastic to replace their packaging. Clatsop Post 12 6PM “Karaoke Dave” WANTED the next five years. The second version will have a bio-based barrier inside, the company says, and a third version will be biodegradable. MacKerron said a lot of big companies have finally started taking the problem of plastic pollution seriously within the last year. “I think most companies were hoping this concern about plastic pollution would blow over,” he said. “That tune has changed because people are so appalled and offended at how bits of plastic are now just everywhere.” Scientists say the world is sending 8 million tons of plas- tic into the oceans every year, and it never really goes away. 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