Biotechnology company Ecohelix announces that its innovative WOODMER\u00ae Seal has been awarded the\u00a0Green Product Award 2025\u00a0in the packaging category. This esteemed recognition celebrates WOODMER\u00ae Seal as a groundbreaking and sustainable solution for the packaging industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Seal was honoured with the Green Product Award 2025 in the Packaging category during the award ceremony on May 15th<\/sup>\u00a0at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin.\u00a0Embassy envoys and jurors such as Uwe Melichar (Touch Design Ltd.), Prof. Claus-Christian Eckhardt (Lund University), Katja Keienburg (baby&junior) presented the awards to winners from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Green Product Award, now in its 12th edition, saw over 1500 submissions from 45 countries. In co-operation with IKEA Stiftung, Green Product Award evaluates concepts by young designers and supports their further development. WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup> Seal stood out amongst the finalists in the packaging category after a rigorous evaluation based on design, innovation, and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup> Seal is a revolutionary bio-based heat seal coating derived from renewable wood biomass. It presents a significantly greener alternative to traditional plastic coatings, offering a remarkable emission reduction. Beyond its environmental benefits, WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup> Seal delivers high performance, ensuring strong and reliable heat seals for a wide range of non-food packaging applications, including e-commerce, industrial, and agricultural packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Green Product Award jury lauded WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Seal, stating:\u00a0\u201cMade from renewable wood biomass, WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Seal offers a greener alternative to conventional plastic coatings with an impressive reduction in emissions of up to 90%. The impactful and performance-oriented monomaterial enabler fulfills or exceeds industry requirements and is ready for the non-food applications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup> Seal’s innovative nature contributes to the development of more sustainable packaging solutions that can improve material circularity and reduce waste. As a proof point, WOODMER Seal received 100\/100 recyclability score in CEPI Standard Mill Test. This sustainable and high-performing heat seal coating empowers businesses to meet evolving market demands and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements for more eco-friendly packaging solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Petri Oinonen<\/strong>, CEO and Founder of Ecohelix, commented on the award:\u00a0“Winning the Green Product Award is a tremendous honour and a powerful validation of our innovation mindset and the years of persistent research that led to the creation of WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Seal. This achievement is a tribute to the fantastic teamwork within Ecohelix and our close collaboration with industry partners. We are incredibly excited about the potential of WOODMER\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Seal to be applied in various packaging applications, significantly reducing the reliance on plastics and fostering greater sustainability”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biotechnology company Ecohelix announces that its innovative WOODMER\u00ae Seal has been awarded the\u00a0Green Product Award 2025\u00a0in the packaging category. This esteemed recognition celebrates WOODMER\u00ae Seal as a groundbreaking and sustainable solution for the packaging industry. WOODMER\u00ae\u00a0Seal was honoured with the Green Product Award 2025 in the Packaging category during the award ceremony on May 15th\u00a0at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[1404],"class_list":{"0":"post-17504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech-innovation","8":"tag-ecohelix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17506,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions\/17506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}