Faerch is a leading European manufacturer of sustainable food packaging and a pioneer in tray‑to‑tray PET recycling. Through its integrated recycling capabilities at Cirrec, Faerch delivers true circularity by turning used food trays back into new food‑grade trays at scale, setting a benchmark for closed‑loop packaging systems in the industry.

With more than 5,000 employees across 25 manufacturing sites, Faerch supplies innovative packaging solutions to the global food industry. For over five decades, the company has partnered with major food manufacturers and retailers to deliver high‑performance packaging that keeps food safe, extends shelf life, and helps reduce food waste. Today, Faerch continues to lead the transition toward more circular, sustainable packaging systems through advanced materials, design expertise, and cutting‑edge recycling technologies.

Highlights

r-PET innovation happening on technology and market level. However, related data to quantify the impacts of the innovative technology was lacking.

Cooperation and Quality Assurance on the collection and compilation of raw data into suitable LCA/PCF data.

Enabling stakeholders and LCA users to do suitable scenarios and optimization on basis of adequate r-PEF LCA/PCF data to enable sustainable supply chain and product optimizations.

Challenges

As Faerch continued to advance its innovative recycling technology, the company faced a significant data gap. No existing life cycle assessment (LCA) data accurately reflected the unique characteristics of this company-specific technology, making it difficult to measure and communicate its environmental impact.

Without quantitative proof points, Faerch lacked the ability to clearly demonstrate the environmental advantages of its innovative approach compared to existing recycled PET (rPET) technologies.

Solution

To address this challenge, Faerch partnered with Sphera to develop company-specific LCA content tailored to its innovative recycling process.

Using Sphera’s Managed LCA Content (MLC) expertise, Sphera developed a dedicated dataset for Faerch’s Cirrec recycled PET (rPET) technology, enabling the company to accurately assess and communicate the environmental performance of its solution.

Results

With Sphera’s support, Faerch was able to showcase the environmental performance of its innovative Cirrec recycled PET (rPET) technology through detailed LCA and carbon footprint results.

The company gained quantitative insights that demonstrated the environmental benefits of its company-specific recycling technology compared to incumbent rPET technologies, helping validate the value of its innovative approach.

“Working with Sphera’s tools, data, and experts enabled us to create the first comprehensive LCA dataset for food-grade rPET from food packaging. By combining their robust methodology with our own production data, we established a credible, science-based foundation to measure and transparently communicate the environmental impact of our circular plastic solutions – ultimately supporting our progress toward our circularity and decarbonisation ambitions. ”

What made this happen?

The existing data on r-PET were not reflecting the specificities of Cirrec part of Faerch innovative technology.

Sphera expertise to develop yet not existing data, based on real industry information, combined with current quality background data (MLC – Managed LifeCycle Content)

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