Of all the tea trends hitting the market, sustainability has to be one of the most important – especially from the customer’s perspective. Today’s customers – especially those with disposable income and a desire to buy quality brands – want to be able to buy from companies with a strong stance on sustainability, ethical business, and environmentally-friendly practices.
So one of the most important brand values you can develop for a successful tea business is one of sustainability and this means investing in custom tea packaging that supports those values.
Developing sustainable custom tea packaging
At Blue Ocean tea, we offer a range of comprehensive tea packaging solutions that are designed to suit the needs of each niche tea brand. These include pyramid bags, square bags, and recyclable material bags.
Working with our own innovative green packaging partners, we recently developed a compostable tea bag that biodegrades in just a couple of weeks, compared to the current industry standard of around two years. What’s more, we can produce tea bag packaging that is designed for your requirements, stripping out common ingredients such as bleached paper or mesh, that damages the environment during production.
We also remove plastic from the process entirely – bearing in mind that most teabags contain around 20 per cent plastic that cannot be recycled at all. Most customers would be shocked to know this – and if you choose truly biodegradable packaging for your tea, then you have strong credentials to communicate to your customers. This is a great way to start standing out from the competition as an ethical brand too.
Perhaps you want to remove tea bags entirely from the process and go one step further by simply selling beautifully wrapped loose-leaf tea, the way that it is sold across much of the world, and in the way that customers used to buy it!
Whatever your aspirations – recycled paper, environmentally-friendly inks, plastic-free packaging, or compostable bags that can help your customers’ gardens grow, we have the skills, the capabilities, and the latest cutting-edge technologies to make it happen. For example, we have invested in the latest technologies including:
FUSO Mesh Tea Bag Machines
Unitek Portion Pack Machine
Hoopla Specialty Frictionless Blender
FT-II Individual Overwrap Packaging Machine
By using these cutting-edge technologies in the most stringent of quality-assured environments, you can create the perfect high-end tea product for your customers, and help them to feel good about doing their bit for the environment.
Contact us today
Blue Ocean tea offers a wide range of high-end services to aspiring and experienced niche tea retailers alike. From blending to product development, packaging, logistics, and consultancy we can manage any aspect of your tea production. We source top-quality ingredients from trusted partners in tea estates, helping you to create beautiful blends that are your unique selling points, and developing your brand and packaging to stand out in the market.
Whether you aspire to have custom tea packaging that strips plastic out, that incorporates compostable bags, or that removes bags entirely for loose-leaf teas, contact us today and let us help you to take your brand forward in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way that customers love – and will pay for.