Boardio™ Paperboard Canister
The performance of a rigid canister — the circularity of paperboard
Boardio™ is a rigid paperboard canister that offers a replacement for plastic tubs, glass jars, and metal cans. It’s lightweight, delivered flat, and highly configurable for low-to-high barrier needs.
This award-winning paper can:
- Is lightweight, with 80%+ fiber content
- Is delivered flat, reducing transport by 95% vs rigid canisters*
- Comes in a multitude of shapes, heights & widths, all possible with the same efficient machine
- Offers high-impact branding on all sides
- Is recyclable in typical paper & board waste diversion programs**
80%+
fiber
95%
less transport
360°
branding
300m+
sold/year
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THE BOARDIO ADVANTAGE
Why Choose Boardio?
Boardio can be tailored to suit a wide range of applications, with customizable shapes, sizes, barrier levels, and functional features that help meet different product, brand, and consumer needs.
Lightweight + Delivered Flat
Less transport and storage. Reduced CO2 impact from transport. Lower EPR fees.
Highly Customizable
Round, rectangular, triangular, or octagonal; custom heights and widths, tailored barriers.
Tailored Barriers
Low- to high-barriers, with MAP, oxygen & moisture barriers to ensure freshness.
Wide Range of Applications
Dry mixes, coffee, snacks, confectionery, nutrition powders, and more.
Integrated Machinery Solution
State-of-the-art machine built for maximum efficiency and 24/7 production with minimal downtime. Optional multi-footprint capability delivers enhanced format flexibility and speed of changeover.
High-Impact Branding
Outstanding print quality delivers stunning graphics, with 360° branding for great shelf impact.
Did You Know?
According to an Innova Market Insights packaging survey, the ability of coffee packaging to preserve food quality is the most important aspect for consumers.
Boardio Applications
Boardio can be tailored to suit a wide range of applications, with customizable shapes, sizes, barrier levels, and functional features that help meet different product, brand, and consumer needs.
Coffee
Ideal for coffee beans, ground coffee, and instant coffee.
A degassing valve helps keep flavor in and oxygen out, while easy opening, no inner bag, and space for a scoop add everyday convenience to this coffee packaging solution.
Nutrition & Food Powders
An ideal protein powder packaging solution, but also great for a range of dry food mixes.
The tailored barrier protection in our paper can helps maintain freshness, while easy opening, reclosure, no inner bag, and convenient scoop-and-pour functionality support everyday use.
Snacks
Perfect at-home or on-the-go packaging, this rigid, reclosable snack pack helps protect freshness, while easy opening and convenient handling make it simple to pour, store, and use again. It’s also a great solution for nut and stackable chip/crisp packaging.
Infant Formula
Innovative barrier technology helps this infant formula packaging prolong shelf life and preserve nutritional content, while supporting the high levels of safety parents expect for their baby. Tamper-evident opening, no inner bag and space for a scoop deliver hassle-free preparation.
Confectionery
Our paper cylinder works for lots of delicious confectionery applications.
Freshness protection and easy opening and reclosure support convenience, while high-quality print on all sides delivers a strong shelf impact.
Vitamins
Ideal for vitamin pills, powders and supplement formats.
Reliable barrier performance, easy dispensing, no inner bag, and room for a scoop support freshness, convenience, and everyday use.
Pet Treats
A great pet food packaging solution for treats.
Easy opening, reclosure, and no inner bag support everyday convenience, while the pack helps keep food fresh and tasty for your beloved pet.
Detergent
As a detergent packaging solution, Boardio accommodates powder, tablet and liquid pod formats.
The rigid, easy-to-handle pack supports convenient storage and dispensing, while reclosure and tailored barrier options help protect product performance and minimize leakage. The round paper tube format is perfect for scent beads.
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A Multi-Award-Winning Innovation
Since launch, Boardio has earned 19 awards, recognizing its innovation and sustainability credentials. This growing list of accolades reflects Boardio’s ability to combine circularity, functionality, and convenience in a single paperboard solution.
The Boardio Integrated Machinery Solution
Machine and material in one system – one supplier, one partner, ensuring quality, reliability, and security with a one-stop shop.
The Boardio machinery system and materials have been optimized for efficient continuous production with minimal downtime. The machine now offers multi-footprint capability, enabling production of multiple shapes — round, octagonal, triangular, and square — along with variable heights, widths, and barrier specifications, all from a single machine.
Just select modules based on the degree of flexibility you require. For co-packers managing diverse client portfolios or large brands seeking to differentiate product lines and serve both large families and smaller households, this optional technology represents a significant operational and commercial advantage.
* Boardio requires just three trucks to ship one million canisters versus 56 trucks to ship a rigid alternative.
** In North America, Boardio passes the Western Michigan University SBS Equivalency testing protocol, which evaluates repulpability and operational impact. Sortation tests display a perfect sortation behaviour in material recycling facilities. Due to the Californian legislation SB 343, one-sided laminated packaging should not be labelled as recyclable in the state of California. In Europe, Boardio is certified as recyclable by Cyclos HTP and CERTIFY via CIRCPACK.