Frugalpac

Frugalpac Saving the planet one bottle at a time.

We create sustainable packaging made from recycled paper, including the Frugal Bottle - the world’s only commercially available low carbon paper bottle for wines, spirits and olive oils.

Our CEO Malcolm Waugh headed to Birmingham yesterday for the WIRED Consulting Trailblazers Breakfast, where we were deli...
23/09/2026

Our CEO Malcolm Waugh headed to Birmingham yesterday for the WIRED Consulting Trailblazers Breakfast, where we were delighted to be named a Manufacturing Trailblazer for 2026.
This accolade celebrates businesses redefining industry standards through innovation, driving growth and leading positive change, so we’re especially proud to be recognised.
A big thank you to WIRED Consulting and
HSBC Commercial Banking for the recognition, and congratulations to all the other businesses selected this year! 🎉

We won! 🏆We’re delighted that our work with Siemens UK to develop the next-generation Frugal Bottle Assembly Machine 2 (...
18/09/2026

We won! 🏆

We’re delighted that our work with Siemens UK to develop the next-generation Frugal Bottle Assembly Machine 2 (FBAM-2) has won the Manufacturing and Technological Innovation Award at the 2026 FDF Industry Awards.

FBAM-2 was created to tackle one of the biggest barriers to wider adoption of the Frugal Bottle: scale.

Working with Siemens, Underwoods Electrical Distributors and Technique Services, we’ve developed a machine capable of producing up to 14 million Frugal Bottles a year – more than five times the capacity of its predecessor – while cutting manufacturing costs by up to 30%.

That means lower-carbon paper bottles can be manufactured at much greater scale and closer to where they’re filled – reducing cost, transport carbon and supply-chain risk.

A huge thank you to Siemens and everyone involved in bringing FBAM-2 to life.

It’s fantastic recognition of what collaboration and engineering innovation can achieve – and another big step towards making lower-carbon drinks packaging available at global scale. 🌍🍾

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17/09/2026

Frugalpac’s Steven Adjei-Henneh visited the yesterday, asking customers and visitors about our new generation Frugal Bottle.

Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts with Steven. It’s fantastic to see such distinctive designs and growing enthusiasm for lower-carbon drinks packaging.

And if you’re there today, make sure you visit at Stand NF181 and at Stand N154 to see their fabulous Frugal Bottles.

Take a look at some of the highlights 👇

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Congratulations to Blessed Remedy Spirits for launching the world’s first mezcal in a paper bottle and, in doing so, the...
16/09/2026

Congratulations to Blessed Remedy Spirits for launching the world’s first mezcal in a paper bottle and, in doing so, the first paper bottle in Mexico.
By pairing artisanal Espadín mezcal with the Frugal Bottle - produced in California by our US manufacturing partner Monterey Wine Company - they are bringing low-carbon innovation directly to the agave spirits industry across two continents:
Mexico: Mezcólogo Mezcal Artesanal Espadín is launching via Chedraui stores and Amazon.
Australia: Metoro Mezcal Artesanal Espadín will hit shelves later this year.

A brilliant example of centuries-old craft meeting modern packaging innovation, as Blessed Remedy Spirits founder Eberth Vera puts it, ‘respecting tradition does not mean standing still’.

We couldn’t agree more, and this is just the beginning, with Blessed Remedy Spirits looking at opportunities to take its paper-bottled mezcals into the US, Europe and other international markets.

For decades, a heavy bottle was supposed to signal a serious wine.As The Grape Reset puts it, packaging has become ‘wine...
14/09/2026

For decades, a heavy bottle was supposed to signal a serious wine.
As The Grape Reset puts it, packaging has become ‘wine’s biggest climate fight’ and the industry is finally putting its bottles on a diet.
The article looks at everything from lightweight glass and the Bottle Weight Accord to bag-in-box, kegs and alternative formats and, of course, paper bottles.
Enter the Frugal Bottle:
84% lower carbon footprint than standard glass
5x lighter than a traditional bottle
Made from 94% recycled paperboard
Trimming a few grams off glass is progress and sometimes switching the format entirely is transformation.
Read the full article here: https://thegrapereset.com/news/the-packaging-issue

Science meets tradition in the UK’s first Greek olive oil in a paper bottle. 🫒Founded by physics students Yuko Liao and ...
11/09/2026

Science meets tradition in the UK’s first Greek olive oil in a paper bottle. 🫒
Founded by physics students Yuko Liao and Eliott Menard, Trigly combines family-grown extra virgin olive oil from the Peloponnese with lower-carbon British packaging innovation.
The single-origin oil is made from hand-picked Koroneiki olives and packaged in the Frugal Bottle, whose opaque paperboard outer blocks light completely. This helps protect the oil against photo-oxidation, one of the main causes of flavour and nutrient degradation.
The bottle also:
♻️ Has an outer made from 94% recycled paperboard
🌍 Has a carbon footprint 84% lower than a standard glass bottle
🎨 Provides a distinctive 360-degree canvas for Trigly’s tree-molecule design
It’s a brilliant meeting of Greek olive-growing heritage, scientific curiosity and packaging innovation.
Trigly Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil is available online now: https://www.trigly.co.uk

What if you could see the future of drinks packaging in just one morning?On Wednesday 23 September, we’re opening the do...
09/09/2026

What if you could see the future of drinks packaging in just one morning?
On Wednesday 23 September, we’re opening the doors of Frugalpac’s Ipswich HQ to wineries, distilleries and drinks producers.
You’ll have the opportunity to:

🏭 Tour our production facility
⚙️ See the high-speed FBAM-2 bottle assembly machine in action
🍾 Explore filling, capping and supply-chain options
🌍 Discover how the Frugal Bottle reduces carbon emissions by at least 84% compared with a standard glass bottle
🥂 Meet our team and fellow drinks producers over lunch

Whether you’re actively considering alternative packaging or simply curious about where the industry is heading, we’d love to welcome you.

📅 Wednesday 23 September
⏰ 11am–1.30pm
📍 Frugalpac HQ, Ipswich

Places are limited, so RSVP by Wednesday 16 September to [email protected].

Sustainable packaging has to work for everyone – otherwise, it simply doesn’t work.Packaging innovation cannot deliver o...
07/09/2026

Sustainable packaging has to work for everyone – otherwise, it simply doesn’t work.
Packaging innovation cannot deliver one benefit at the expense of another. To replace glass at scale, a paper bottle must perform at every stage of its journey:
⚙️ For producers: It must integrate with filling operations, protect the product and perform throughout distribution.
🎨 For brands: It must safeguard product quality while offering the shelf presence and storytelling potential of a 360° printable surface.
♻️ For consumers: It should be lightweight, shatterproof and easy to separate for recycling at home.
The Frugal Bottle was engineered with all three in mind, combining a 100% recycled paperboard outer with a carbon footprint up to 84% lower than a standard glass bottle.
Real progress happens when sustainability, commercial performance and design work together.
What matters most to your brand when evaluating alternative packaging?
👇 Discover the complete Frugal Bottle story at frugalpac.com.

Lower-carbon packaging, made in Canada. 🇨🇦Our partner KinsBrae Packaging manufactures the KB Bottle locally in Ontario u...
04/09/2026

Lower-carbon packaging, made in Canada. 🇨🇦

Our partner KinsBrae Packaging manufactures the KB Bottle locally in Ontario using Frugalpac technology, giving brands across Canada and North America access to a lower-carbon bottle produced closer to where their products are filled and sold.

Local production helps reduce the need to transport empty bottles over long distances, while supporting shorter, more resilient supply chains.
With a 100% recycled paperboard outer and a carbon footprint up to 84% lower than a standard glass bottle, the KB Bottle combines sustainability, practicality and standout 360° design.

British innovation. Canadian manufacturing. Lower-carbon packaging ready for North American brands.

02/09/2026

How do you take paper bottles from an emerging format to 14 million units a year? You engineer for industrial scale.

Designed in Suffolk, our next-generation FBAM-2 is a scalable, multi-lane platform developed to assemble Frugal Bottles closer to the facilities where they are filled.

What FBAM-2 delivers:
Capacity: Approximately 14 million bottles annually in its standard three-lane configuration - more than five times the capacity of FBAM-1.
Automation: Advanced automation and modular controls designed for efficient, scalable production.
Flexibility: Multi-lane configurations supporting different production requirements.
Localisation: Installation at bottling plants and packaging facilities closer to existing filling operations.

Speed alone isn’t enough. Commercial success requires reliable automation that makes local paper-bottle production competitive at industrial scale.

👇 Explore FBAM-2 in the comments. Contact [email protected] to find out more.

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