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When evaluating new packaging materials, the conversation starts with product protection. Bakery ingredients have diverse protection needs. While products such as vanilla sugar and dessert creams can be packaged with relatively low barrier materials, ingredients containing nuts, seeds, or fats require stronger protection against oxygen, water vapour, grease, and mineral oil to preserve quality and shelf life. To address varying protection needs, Sappi has developed a comprehensive portfolio of functional papers that combine sustainability with tailored barrier performance across a wide range of bakery applications.

The debate about what needs to change in packaging is over. Today, it's about who can actually make it work.

At Interpack, Sappi showcased recyclable mono-material functional papers developed specifically for confectionery, with a particular focus on chocolate. Designed to meet the incoming regulatory requirements and rising demand for sustainable packaging, the solutions showed how Sappi’s high-barrier, barrier and heat-sealable papers can support both primary and secondary packaging formats.

Efficient packaging material transition was one of the key questions at the Sappi booth at Interpack 2026

At Interpack 2026, Sappi used finished applications to show how fibre-based packaging is developed with partners: ice cream cone sleeves with Huhtamaki, tea packaging with Teepack, confectionery twist wrapping with ACMA and printed barrier paper applications with Koenig & Bauer.

At Interpack 2026, label papers entered many of the same discussions shaping the wider packaging market: recyclability, material reduction, production efficiency and supply reliability.

Can packaging be lighter, more sustainable and still stand out on the shelf?
That question shaped many of the discussions at Interpack 2026.

The concept of forestry may conjure up images of coppicing and swinging axes. But it’s so much more high-tech nowadays. Here, Sappi explains two technologies that are integral to modern-day forestry.

In the sustainability lexicon, ‘principles’ has long been considered the softest of pillars – abstract, declarative and difficult to measure. Increasingly, however, companies including Sappi are realising the foundational role of ‘principles’ in their approach.

Marking its 75th anniversary, Thames & Hudson’s The Art of the Book demonstrates how paper, print quality and design remain central to illustrated publishing.

At this year’s Interpack trade fair, Sappi is turning sustainable packaging into a tangible experience by serving ice cream to visitors in its barrier paper solutions. But this is more than just a treat for visitors. Each ice cream cone comes wrapped in Sappi’s innovative Guard Duo barrier paper, turning a simple moment into a real-life demonstration of sustainable packaging in action.

Tea envelopes play a vital role in protecting product quality, preserving delicate aromas, and delivering the first tactile interaction between brand and consumer. At interpack, Sappi is presenting a comprehensive range of paper-based envelope solutions designed to meet both performance needs and growing sustainability expectations. Visitors to the Sappi stand can explore a variety of flexible packaging paper solutions for tea envelopes, including crimped formats, heat-sealed sachets, and translucent variants.