OLMA: The first Czech company with self-separating K3^® r100 packaging from Greiner Packaging

Kremsmünster, Austria, September 2024. With its Carte d’Or and Cavalier brands, OLMA is well-known in the Czech retail sector for its dessert variations in the refrigerated section. The combinations of fresh and tangy sour cream and sweet fruit, chocolate, or caramel ingredients are a hit with young and old alike – and now their innovative packaging is also causing a stir. Since the spring, OLMA has been the first food manufacturer in the Czech Republic to pack its dessert variations in self-separating K3^® r100 cups from Greiner Packaging.  

With the K3^® r100, the cardboard wrap and plastic packaging are separated from each other during the waste disposal process without human intervention. This means that achieving an excellent recyclability rate of up to 98% does not depend on proper separation by the end consumer: It happens completely independently even before it arrives at the recycling plant. The empty cup can be easily disposed of after the dessert has been enjoyed. 

K3^® r100 is Greiner Packaging’s latest innovation in cardboard-plastic combinations that have been tried and tested for many years: The materials separate themselves even before they reach the recycling plant’s near-infrared (NIR) sorting system. This makes detection, sorting, and recycling much more efficient. Before recycling, K3^® r100 ensures that cardboard and plastic wind up in the correct material stream during the initial sorting process. The cup is also a real visual highlight and practical to handle.  

The K3^® r100 innovation was honored with the World Star Packaging Award in January. Greiner Packaging also received the Green Packaging Star Award from the Austrian magazine KOMPACK last October, after Berglandmilch became the first company in the country to introduce packaging made from the self-separating K3^® r100.