German Packaging Award for LEIPA Paludi cartonboard

After we successfully produced cartonboard containing around 10% Paludi fibres from reed canary grass in Schrobenhausen in February, this cartonboard has now been awarded the German Packaging Award 2025.

The fibres used came from the Donaumoos region and were processed as part of the ProMofa research project. We supplied the cardboard to our customer Leopold Verpackungen, Ludwigsburg, who used it to make crates for OBI.

In the Sustainability / Material Substitution category, the ‘Plant transport carton made from waste paper and 10% fibres from Paludi biomass from rewetted moorland’ was awarded the German Packaging Award 2025 by the Deutsches Verpackungsinstitut e. V. (German Packaging Institute).

The award ceremony will take place on 23 September 2025, at 4:30 pm, as part of a festive award ceremony at the FACHPACK trade fair in Nuremberg, in the Munich Hall. From 10:00 to 10:30 a.m., there will be a presentation in the Innovation Box on the topic: "Creating moorland together in the toMOORow PaludiAlliance: How LEIPA & OBI are saving CO2 and rethinking packaging with rewetted peatlands."

As this is an innovative joint project, we would like to thank everyone involved for their strong performance and the joint journey towards a more sustainable future. We are delighted to receive this award.

The Bavarian Minister of Agriculture, Michaela Kaniber, commented on the award: "Congratulations to LEIPA and all the project partners on this fantastic honour! The prize for the peat board impressively demonstrates the potential of combining climate protection, agricultural utilisation and innovative value creation. Our peat soils are precious CO₂ reservoirs - if we want to preserve them, we need new forms of utilisation that make ecological sense and are sustainable in the long term."

This paludiculture offers farmers an environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional use of drained peat soils.