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Pulpex Limited

Pulpex | The Future of Sustainable Packaging

Pulpex is a new packaging technology company with a single-minded mission to deliver sustainability through renewable packaging.

CRN
11980135
Founded
2019
Age
7

Overview

Legal name
PULPEX LIMITED
Region
East of England
Registered address
UNIT 1 ACCELERATOR PARK
WEST WAY
SAWSTON
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
ENGLAND
CB22 3FG
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
15 Mar
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

28 Feb
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

01 Mar
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 May
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

30 Oct
2024

Termination Director Company With Name Termination Date

Officers

TM01 | Transaction MzQ0MTQzMjY5MGFkaXF6a2N4

Published 30 Oct 2024 11:05

07 May
2019

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

6 awards
First funded
2023
Funded years
2023, 2024, 2025
Age at first award
4 years

Projects

2025 Collaborative R&D

BIOPACK: Plant-based high-performance colourants and coatings to enable fully sustainable, bio-based packaging

1 Apr 2025 to 30 Nov 2026

Awarded
£118,034
Total cost £168,620

**Colourants** make up the dyes, pigments and coatings that are found in almost every part of our homes and daily lives. This massive, £38bn global industry touches on a wide range of products, including cosmetics, textiles, paints, and packaging, but comes at an **extraordinary social and environmental cost**. Produced using a wide range of mined metals,...

2024 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

EnzyBond Project - Enzymatic Cellulose Moulding Project

1 Nov 2024 to 30 Apr 2025

Awarded
£12,721
Total cost £21,202

Pulpex is committed to achieving net-zero emissions, and this project aims to use enzyme treatments to improve the stiffness, strength and detail of paper fibres for moulded recyclable materials. The goal is to produce sustainable paper components by enzyme-based processing that will replace plastic parts, like the threaded piece between a bottle and its ...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Pulpex PinholeCheck - in-process paper bottle assessment tool to detect pinholes in the internal surface barrier layers

1 Sep 2024 to 28 Feb 2025

Awarded
£12,007
Total cost £20,011

Pulpex, collaborating with ASTUTE, pioneers sustainable packaging solutions, converting cellulose fibre into easily recyclable bottles for FMCG brands. We aim to analyse barrier coating layers for defects in the process in real-time at scale. Our project focuses on enhancing the manufacturing process of paper bottles pioneered by Pulpex, a leader in susta...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Next-generation sustainable liquid packaging using only bio-based feedstock derived from non-food waste - Pulpex UK BioScience Initiative

1 Sep 2023 to 31 Aug 2025

Awarded
£109,271
Total cost £156,101

The '_Pulpex UK BioScience Initiative_' will help Pulpex Ltd fully achieve its medium-term ambition by replacing its existing petrochemical-based barrier coatings with truly sustainable coatings as barriers to water and foods. The barrier coatings are applied on the interior of the Pulpex sustainable bottle. Sustainable materials are the future of food pa...

2023 Collaborative R&D

BioBased Feedstocks for Bottle Lid Manufacturing (BioLids)

1 Jul 2023 to 31 Dec 2023

Awarded
£34,987
Total cost £49,981

This project will help Pulpex Ltd fully achieve its net zero ambition by replacing its existing plastic lids with a biobased closure for its innovative paper-based bottles. Pulpex has demonstrated that it is possible to manufacture a biobased bottle that will enable brands to switch from glass or plastic to a paper-based alternative that is readily recycl...

2023 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Potential for BioBased Waxes for Paper Bottle Barrier Coatings

1 Jul 2023 to 31 Dec 2023

Awarded
£34,829
Total cost £49,755

Pulpex Ltd is a proven, patented and scalable packaging technology company ready to be deployed globally and promising to herald in an exciting and greener future. As a unique, first-of-its-kind pulp packaging solution that uses technological innovation to deliver much-needed and highly anticipated eco-packaging category change, Pulpex offers a disruptive...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies