Overseas firm partners with US farmers to create plastic-free food packaging: 'The stars aligned'

Overseas firm partners with US farmers to create plastic-free food packaging: 'The stars aligned'

Scotland-based CelluComp is expanding its eco-friendly packaging operations into the U.S., partnering with Minnesota farmers to create its first commercial-scale facility. The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative will help provide CelluComp's new Renville, Minnesota, facility with 7,000 tons of sugar beet pulp as a raw material to create plastic-free packaging, according to local news outlet WJON.  Curran is the company's bio-based technolo…