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Ahlstrom-Munksjo Offers Green Solution for Tea Bag Market

Ahlstrom-Munksjo has developed a technology called The Fiber+ for the hot beverage market.. A traditional heat sealable tea bag is made with cellulose and plastic fibers to allow the sealing. With Fiber+, Ahlstrom-Munksjo replaces the plastic with polylactic acid (PLA), a biopolymer usually made of corn starch and is the same material in  BioWeb which is renewable, biodegradable and fully compostable.

By the end of this year, Fiber+ tea bags will be available in the UK-based retailer Co-op, which sells 4.6 million boxes of tea a year. 

Fiber+ will be made in Chirnside, U.K. Ahlstrom-Munksjö is continuously developing new solutions to replace plastic with  fiber-based solutions.

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