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Coca-Cola HBC, with packaging maker DS Smith and machinery supplier Krones, is rolling out a corrugated cardboard handle for 1.5-liter bottle multipacks in place of plastic shrink wrap. Commercial trials began in Austria in 2023.
DS Smith developed the Lift Up, a fully recyclable corrugated cardboard handle for 1.5-litre soft drink bottle multipacks, in collaboration with Krones and Coca-Cola HBC. Krones says the method could cut packaging production energy use by 58%.
DS Smith and Alpine Water developed a recycled and recyclable corrugated transport box for Hallstein glass water bottles that replaces polyethylene foam inserts. The announcement was dated 18 September 2025.
Coca-Cola HBC Austria replaced plastic shrink film on four soft drink multipacks with kraft paper and cardboard packaging, developed with Krones, DS Smith and Mondi. The line was installed at its Edestal plant in Burgenland.
Graphic Packaging installed its QuikFlex machine at Coca-Cola HBC's Lisburn plant in Northern Ireland to produce paperboard cartons for 10- to 24-can multipacks, replacing plastic shrink wrap.
Coca-Cola HBC has started rolling out the KeelClip paperboard alternative to plastic wrap on can multipacks across its EU markets, after a €15 million investment in a partnership with Graphic Packaging International. The rollout is due to finish by early 2022.
Coca-Cola HBC has set aside £9.3 million of capital expenditure for a second canning line at its Knockmore Hill plant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with capacity of 4.8 million cans a week. The line will support production of Sleek Cans and Monster Energy products.
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company is investing EUR 15 million ($16.54 million) in Graphic Packaging's KeelClip paperboard packaging to replace plastic shrink-wrap on can multipacks in Europe, with rollouts in Ireland and Poland planned for 2020.
