Combined Technologies Offers Boardio Paperboard Canisters

Indiana contract packager Combined Technologies, Inc now provides Graphic Packaging's Boardio paperboard canister to North American nutraceutical brands.

Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Consumer Goods

Plain kraft-brown paperboard canister beside translucent softgel capsules on a clean steel packaging-line table under soft window light. — Combined Technologies, Inc, an Indiana contract packager, now offers Graphic Packaging's Boardio paperboard canister to North American nutraceutical brands as a plastic alternative. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

Combined Technologies, Inc, an Indiana-based contract packaging company, has begun offering Graphic Packaging's Boardio paperboard canister to North American nutraceutical brands. The agreement gives its customers a paperboard alternative to rigid plastic bottles, tubs, and cans.

Why it matters

The move gives supplement and over-the-counter product makers in Indiana and across North America a packaging option that can use substantially less plastic. Graphic Packaging is also working with other co-packers to extend Boardio to a wider range of brands.

Boardio can use more than 90% less plastic than rigid plastic cans, depending on packaging configuration. The source does not specify which configuration or baseline the figure is based on.

The players

Combined Technologies, Inc

An Indiana-based contract packaging company that provides primary and secondary packaging for over-the-counter product formats.

Graphic Packaging

A packaging manufacturer that developed Boardio and is working with co-packers to make the paperboard canister available to more brands.

The details

Combined Technologies, Inc provides primary and secondary packaging for capsules, gummies, powders, softgels, vitamins, and other over-the-counter formats. Boardio is made primarily from paperboard, is available with barrier options that limit oxygen and moisture exposure, and can be printed across its full exterior surface.

Article on the Combined Technologies Boardio agreement published November 5, 2026.

Market Landscape

The Boardio paperboard canister, developed by Graphic Packaging, is now reaching nutraceutical brands through contract packagers. The arrangement extends a paperboard alternative to rigid plastic containers into supplement and over-the-counter packaging supply chains.

Consumers who buy supplements, vitamins, and other over-the-counter products could see paperboard packaging in place of rigid plastic bottles, tubs, and cans. The change would depend on individual brands adopting the packaging.

The takeaway

Packaging choices made by contract manufacturers can shape which materials reach store shelves across many brands at once. Brands evaluating packaging options may consider paperboard alternatives where barrier and handling needs allow.