After years of development, Contempo Specialty Packaging said it has created the world’s first child-resistant and plastic-free cigarette box.
Traditional cigarette boxes often feature a flip-top design, which, during child-resistant testing, can be vulnerable to tearing. These weak points make it easier for children to open the box and access the contents. Contempo’s new design addresses this issue by offering a durable, secure, and plastic-free structure that passes rigorous child-resistant testing, ensuring both safety and reliability. It provides cannabis producers and retailers with a safer, more sustainable packaging solution for their products in a familiar package style that consumers love.
“Since Contempo began serving the cannabis industry in 2017, we’ve received countless customer requests for a truly sustainable child-resistant box that opens like a traditional cigarette box,” said Contempo Specialty Packaging CEO Michael Markarian. “Utilizing plastic parts for the hinge would have been the easy answer, but that runs counter to our mission of sustainability. With our 100% paperboard child-resistant cigarette box, we’re elated to fill a niche in the cannabis packaging market and bring producers another innovative, beautiful, sustainable, and child-resistant packaging option that measures up to the care and quality they bring to their cannabis.”
The box size can be fully customized to accommodate different quantities or sizes of pre-rolls, ensuring a perfect fit for any product. Contempo’s child-resistant cigarette boxes can be made with FSC-certified boards or recycled paperboard, making these plastic-free & recyclable boxes even more sustainable. Additionally, a variety of embellishments and print finishes are available, including hot stamping, spot UV, the use of eco-friendly soy-based inks, and more.
