Smart Planet Technologies

08/06/2025

Congratulations to Green Rock Group, a licensee of Smart Planet, as their rapid growth and expansion continues. Its exciting for Smart Planet's EarthCoating to be in their portfolio of sustainable packaging technologies.

Paper cups and lids giant Green Rock Manufacturing Group is expanding its business in the UAE with a string of brand, venue and festival contracts.

08/06/2025

Smart Planet's EarthCoating now available in paper cups and other foodservice packaging with Green Rock Group.

EARTH COATING

Available at Green Rock!

A more sustainable alternative to standard PE

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07/28/2025

Congratulations to our licensee Copar as a finalist for recyclable paper sausage packaging with Smart Planet's HyperBarrier, in Packaging Europe's prestigious Sustainability Awards, self-described as the "Nobel prize of Sustainable Packaging". Winners to be announced at the Sustainable Packaging Summit Utrecht November 10-12

The winners of the Sustainability Awards 2025 will be revealed at the Sustainable Packaging Summit, 10-12 November, in Utrecht, Netherlands

07/28/2025

Congratulations to Green Rock for the Sustainability Award for their new offering, paper cups with Smart Planet's EarthCoating.

Green Rock Manufacturing Group are a UK based manufacturing company producing the most eco-friendly cups available right here in the UK.

07/12/2024

Congratulations to Copa Airlines and Linstol for winning the Onboard magazine 2024 Best Onboard Sustainability Product for paper hot cups with Smart Planet's EarthCoating. Additional photos within the comments section. The award was presented at the World Travel Catering Expo (WTCE) show in Hamburg Germany. https://www.worldtravelcateringexpo.com/

Congratulations to all our winners! Entries for 2025 open on October 1 2024.

05/06/2024

Article in Packaging Europe on Smart Planet's EarthCoating and new Hyperbarrier coating solution for paper-based flexible packaging.

Smart Planet Technologies aims to facilitate a transition into paper-based flexible packaging with its recyclable nanocomposite coating - said to offer ten times the moisture barrier and twenty times the oxygen barrier performance of conventional polyethylene coatings.

04/23/2024

Introducing HyperBarrier, Smart Planet's new ternary nanocomposite coating with an unprecedented 20x improvement in oxygen barrier and 15x in moisture barrier over conventional polyethylene coating. The launch is featured in Packaging Digest

New HyperBarrier coating gives paper-based flexible packaging a massive leap in polyolefin oxygen and moisture barrier — offering EVOH, foil, and metallization alternatives — without ruining curbside recyclability.

03/28/2024

Congratulations to Detpak as a finalist in the Hive Awards for Best Packaging, with the curbside recyclable Mitolo paper packaging for potatoes. The package uses Smart Planet's EarthCoating for curbside recyclability and plastic reduction.

An impressive number of quality entries across The Hive Awards’ nine categories created a highly competitive line-up for judges to consider the exemplar of excellence and innovation in Australia’s foo...

03/28/2024

Detpak wins Packaging Innovation Award for the Mitolo paper packaging for potatoes. The package uses EarthCoating by Smart Planet.

Detpak won the APPMA Packaging Design Innovation Award for its Kerbside Recyclable Paper Bag for Fresh Potatoes, at the APPMA Awards of Excellence 2024, held in Melbourne during APPEX.

03/15/2024

Congratulations to Detpak for winning the 2024 APPMA "Innovation in Packaging Design" award for the paper-based, curbside recyclable, and plastic reducing potato bag for Mitolo gourmandine potatoes. The package combination of sustainable attributes ar a first in the industry, made possible by Smart Planet's EarthCoating. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/detpak_appex2024-appma-ranpack-activity-7173823774201462784-lptD

03/14/2024

Linstol launches the "Super Cool Cup". a paper cold cup for airlines that's recyclable, compostable and tree-free, and the first paper cup with a coating designed to hold alcoholic cocktails, all made possible with Smart Planet's EarthCoating