It’s not plastic. It’s fantastic.
It's paper that highly performs for your tea packaging. Get PPWR-ready, preserve your natural aroma, and keep your current packaging lines running flawlessly.
We’re displaying this page in English because it isn’t available in 中国人 yet. We hope to have it translated soon.
Switch to sustainable paper packaging without compromising freshness or speed
Regulations like PPWR, retailer demands and consumer behaviour are forcing the tea industry to rethink packaging. But you don't have to sacrifice flavor and aroma or slow down your production lines. With Sappi’s flexible packaging papers you protect your tea and run smoothly on your existing machines, using a mono-material that meets sustainability standards.
Tailored tea solutions
Sealed tea envelopes
Our functional papers with heat sealable property are offering diverse barrier for your specific need to protect your tea.
Products available
Crimped tea envelopes
Achieve high-speed crimping up to 400 packs/minute with our flexible packaging papers.
Products available
Translucent tea envelopess
Let your customers discover your tea immediately with our translucent paper including heat sealable functionality.
Products available
Pouches for premium loose leaf tea
Superior moisture, oxygen, and mineral oil barrier is guaranteed to protect the flavour and aroma of high-value loose leaf tea, ensuring product integrity over time.
Products available
Tea bags
Specialised paper solutions for tea tags that maintain integrity during steeping while supporting brand messaging and sustainability requirements.
Products available
Paperboard boxes
Our paperboard boxes provide an opportunity for brand storytelling through visual and tactile impact.
Products available
Whitepaper: Tea at a turning point - Why the tea market today is ready for a packaging pivot
This Whitepaper is a comprehensive guide for brand owners on moving from plastic to paper. Learn about product protection, machine compatibility, and sustainability metrics.
Why Choose Sappi's High Barrier Paper?
Fully Recyclable
Mono-material construction ensures easy recyclability in standard paper waste stream, eliminating separation issues and reducing environmental impact.
Superior Protection
High barrier coating technology provides excellent protection against moisture, oxygen, grease and MOSH/MOAH, preserving freshness and shelf life.
Future-proof
Stay ahead of regulations and meet sustainability goals while maintaining premium packaging paper quality.
How does high-barrier paper work?
Non-recyclable laminates vs. Sappi’s solution
Traditional barrier packaging often uses multi-laminate structures that cannot be recycled. Sappi’s barrier papers are used as mono-material with specialized coating technology, maintaining full recyclability while delivering comparable barrier properties.
Barrier Technology
1. High Barrier Performance
Advanced coating technology provides superior protection against moisture, oxygen, grease and MOSH/MOAH.
2. Mono-Material Structure
Single-material construction ensures easy recycling and processing.
3. Heat-Sealing Properties
Several papers offer integrated high barrier functionality and heat-sealing properties.
Daniela Marques
"We wanted to develop products free from single-use plastic, but they still needed to perform, I was worried about putting the powders in a paper bag, because they’re sensitive to humidity and can go lumpy easily. So, I knew I needed to find the right paper. I reached out to suppliers and Sappi had the best solution."
Arnie Ellison
"We were surprised to experience outstanding runnability using normal inks. With its glossy, premium look and feel, the paper made quite an impression on us."
Frequently Asked Questions
When we are talking paper barrier packaging solutions, we refer to papers which are coated with waterborne polymer dispersions of very thin layer. And those developments have the ultimate goal to replace or be able to replace non-recyclable multilayer structures like paper film laminates, extrusion coated papers or multi film laminates for flexible packaging solutions. These innovations undergo rigorous in-house and external testing, aligned with the 4Evergreen evaluation protocol, ensuring recyclability in paper waste streams. Sappi actively participates in 4Evergreen, a cross-industry initiative aimed at boosting paper and cardboard recycling rates. Contributions include harmonized European test methods, sorting and collection workstreams, and design guidelines. The campaign emphasizes sustainability and functionality in flexible packaging solutions.
Sappi’s barrier papers address EU legislation demands for sustainable packaging by reducing plastic pollution, waste, and material complexity while ensuring recyclability. These fiber-based papers substitute non-recyclable plastic packaging, leveraging renewable materials and achieving Europe’s high recycling rate of 82.5%. Tested under CEPI and 4Evergreen protocols, they guarantee compatibility with paper waste streams. As mono-material solutions, they replace complex multilayer substrates, simplifying collection and recycling. Sappi remains committed to innovation and sustainability, aligning with legislative objectives and promoting a circular economy for renewable resources while offering practical, recyclable alternatives for flexible packaging applications.
Yes, it is possible and that is fantastic news, as the packaging lines were optimized for film in the last decades. It is depending on the type of machine and the packaging material, which is replaced by paper, which kind of adjustments the machine may need.
By close and fruitful collaborations with well-known OEMs, we have learned a lot about the behavior of paper on the lines and this is know-how we gladly share with our customers and project partners. In many cases it is sufficient to make small adjustments like machine settings. For example, sealing temperatures on the machine to make the paper run, and sometimes adjustments on the forming box or the forming shoulder are key to success.
However, this is not high investment costs. The good news is that paper can run on both vertical as well as horizontal lines, which makes paper a great choice for different packaging formats and styles.
Sappi addresses the 10 most pressing questions brand owners, converters and printers are currently asking. Our experts are answering these questions in short videos.
Sappi PaperPack news
Stay up to date on sustainable packaging with barrier papers. Learn everything you need to know and the latest information from our newsletter "Paper Pack News." Simply subscribe now.
You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. For more information on how Sappi processes and secures your data, please view our Privacy Policy.