FalConic® Sleeve Pack Container is a double Red Dot winner.
Madrid, June 2025 – CHEP, a global leader in supply chain solutions, and its long-standing innovation partner in sustainable pallets and large containers manufacturer, Cabka, have announced that the CHEP FalConic Sleeve Pack Container (SPC) has received the prestigious Red Dot Award in two categories:
- Best Design – Industrial Packaging (Transportation)
- Most Sustainable Design – Industrial Design
The award was announced ahead of the official ceremony to be held in Essen, Germany, on July 8. This marks the second consecutive year that CHEP and Cabka have been recognised by the Red Dot jury, following last year’s award for the CHEP ZirConic® Container. The continued recognition underlines the strategic role that product innovation and sustainability play in CHEP value proposition and commitment to building regenerative supply chains.
Learn more about CHEP (Brambles) and its circular logistics model.
“The FalConic Sleeve containers are ecologically well thought out from production to recycling and are a convincing part of a regenerative supply chain”, said the Red Dot Award jury.
FalConic® Sleeve Pack: a new standard for light and medium-weight goods
Launched at FachPack 2024, one of Europe’s leading packaging trade fairs, the FalConic SPC is the latest innovation from CHEP Pallecon division. Specifically designed to replace single-use transport packaging, it offers a foldable, ergonomic, and reusable solution for the handling and transportation of light and medium-weight dry goods across industries such as packaging, co-packing, and e-commerce.
Made from 80%+ post-consumer recycled material, the new FalConic SPC combines outstanding performance and circularity. It features innovative sleeve, lid, and drop locking mechanisms that eliminate the need for hook-and-loop fasteners and stretch wrap, as well as a modular design for increased adaptability, and IoT capabilities that enhance traceability and customer insights. These features collectively improve operational efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and help businesses meet the requirements of the upcoming Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
“Winning a Red Dot Award is already a major distinction to enhance the credentials for sustainable innovation design of the new FalConic SPC—but winning it two years in a row, including the new meta-category for sustainable industrial packaging, is a powerful validation of our innovation journey and the transformation of our products and services to take supply chain regeneration to the next level”, said Daniel López Urán, Global Head of Disruptive Innovation at Brambles.
“The FalConic container is the result of an ambitious collaboration programme with our customers and our development partner Cabka, blending insight-driven proprietary design features with sustainability and circularity from design as the main drivers. We are proud to help our customers transition from linear to circular supply chains through practical, ergonomical, scalable solutions.”
Ignacio Castellanos, VP Pooling and System Integrations from Cabka, added: “These awards reflect our shared ambition with CHEP to raise the bar for sustainable transport packaging. The FalConic Sleeve Pack Container exemplifies what can be achieved when material science, design excellence, and circularity come together. We are proud of our continued collaboration and the impact it’s creating across industries.”
A growing portfolio of award-winning circular solutions
The FalConic Sleeve Pack Container joins the CHEP ZirConic Container—launched in 2023 and winner of the same award last year—as part of CHEP’s expanding portfolio of next-generation reusable transport packaging (RTP). While the FalConic SPC is optimised for light and medium-weight dry cargo, the ZirConic Container is tailored for heavy-duty applications, with both designed to support a more efficient, connected, and sustainable supply chain.
About the Red Dot Award
The Red Dot Design Award has a history of more than 60 years since its inauguration in 1955. Organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen of Germany, it is hailed as one of the world’s largest design awards. The best products of each year are honoured in the Red Dot Award: Product Design. Whether aesthetically pleasing, functional, smart, or innovative – the products honoured by the Red Dot jury are united by their outstanding design quality.
About CHEP
CHEP is a global leader in supply chain solutions. Together with producers, manufacturers, retailers and logistics partners, CHEP advances the smart and sustainable movement of goods across more than 60 countries.
With its operational excellence trusted by the world’s top brands, CHEP primarily serves customers in the consumer staples (e.g. dry food, grocery, household products, health and personal care, fresh produce and beverage), retail, automotive and general manufacturing industries. A part of the Brambles Group, CHEP manages ~347 million pallets and containers through a network of 750+ service centres, employing approximately 11,000 people worldwide with its largest operations in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.chep.com.
About Cabka
Cabka is in the business of recycling plastics from post-consumer and post-industrial waste into innovative reusable pallets and large container solutions, enhancing logistics chain sustainability. Cabka is leading the industry in its integrated approach, closing the loop from waste to recycling to manufacturing. Backed by its own innovation center in Valencia, it has industry knowledge, capability and capacity of making maximum use, bringing recycled plastics back in the production loop at attractive returns. Cabka is fully equipped to exploit the full value chain from waste to end-products.
Cabka is listed at Euronext Amsterdam as of 1 March 2022 under the CABKA ticker with international securities identification number NL00150000S7.
For more information, please visit www.cabka.com
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