Chilean company partners with labelling specialist Sinclair to utilise the world’s first fruit label certified for both home and industrial composting
Leading Chilean grower-exporter Copefrut has become the latest company to adopt Sinclair’s T55, the world’s first fruit label certified for both home and industrial composting as a finished product.
The companies said the collaboration reflects a shared ambition to reduce single‑use packaging waste without compromising the performance required by modern fresh produce supply chains.
Felipe Casanova, general manager of Copefrut, commented: “At Copefrut, sustainability is not an option, it is a responsibility embedded across our orchards, packing operations, and supply chain. This partnership aligns agricultural responsibility with packaging innovation, ensuring fruit is sustainable from production to point of sale”.
Copefrut will start rolling out the label in the third quarter of 2026 across apples, plums, and kiwifruit. It’s goal is to have 50 per cent of production covered by the end of this year and an adoption target of 100 per cent in 2027.
The initiative is part of Copefrut’s broader sustainability strategy, focusing on energy efficiency, water recovery, responsible resource use, and waste reduction across its operations.
“A compostable fruit label reduces the waste footprint of necessary packaging and simplifies disposal for consumers helping integrate packaging into the circular economy,” said Andres Nawrath, sales manager for the Chilean company.
Sinclair T55 is certified as a finished product to global standards (EN 13432, AS 5810, NFT 51‑800) and engineered to perform in high-speed and high-humidity packaging environments matching conventional label performance.
“At Sinclair, we believe sustainability must be proven, not promised. Partnering with growers like Copefrut shows what’s possible when innovation and responsibility come together to reduce plastic waste in a measurable way,” said Duncan Jones, senior marketing manager at Sinclair.
“Together, Copefrut and Sinclair are demonstrating that meaningful sustainability in fresh produce must be integrated, scalable, and measurable from orchard to end-of-life.”
