Bioveila is a German supplier of industrially compostable packaging and flexible packaging. We develop, certify, and deliver our catalogue (and a substantial volume of custom-spec product) to businesses across Germany and the EU.
We do one thing: bring certified compostable packaging to businesses that need an alternative to conventional plastic. The catalogue stays narrow and audited; nothing on it would embarrass us in a buyer review.
Compostable packaging is a small industry with a wide quality range. A handful of products are rigorously certified and compost the way the spec sheet claims, while plenty more carry marks that wouldn't survive an audit.
Bioveila exists to close the distance between certified on paper and performs as certified.
Every product in the catalogue starts with a specification we wrote. From there, manufacturing partners are picked for certification depth, production consistency, and regular audits, and each batch gets tested against the spec rather than the cover sheet. Verpackungsgesetz registration is completed before anything reaches a customer, and because we hold European inventory, lead times stay short and supply is predictable.
For customers whose operation requires a product that isn't in our standard catalogue, we develop custom specifications: different sizes, different barrier weights, different print, different end-of-life pathways, different formats entirely. That's a substantial share of what we ship.
Compostable plastic is a useful tool, not a magic fix.
It is genuinely better than conventional plastic where the bag will be contaminated with food or organic waste, because the whole stream can then be composted rather than landfilled. For single-use applications in places that have industrial composting infrastructure, the case is also strong; and even in incineration the higher waste-to-energy ratio makes a meaningful difference.
Compostable plastic is not a license to use more single-use packaging than necessary, and it's not equivalent to reusable systems. In the ocean, in landfills, or on the side of roads it does not biodegrade meaningfully; it needs controlled conditions: heat, microbes, time.
We tell our customers this directly. We'd rather lose a sale to honesty than win one by overstating or greenwashing.
Our goal is simple: every bag should end up either as soil or as energy. It should never fragment in a fish.
Soil, when the bag goes into an industrial composter. Energy, when local infrastructure is better suited to waste-to-energy incineration.
In contrast, a polyethylene bag enters a waterway and starts a 200 year breakdown into microplastics.
Soil and energy are the outcomes we work toward, and fragments in a fish is the problem we work against. Our job is making sure the sustainable option is available to every business we supply.
DIN EN 13432
industrial compostability for packaging
EN 14995
industrial compostability for plastics
OK Compost INDUSTRIAL & OK Compost HOME
(TÜV Austria)
REACH
compliance for all inks and additives
Seedling
mark (European Bioplastics)
EN 17033
biodegradable mulch films for agriculture
Verpackungsgesetz
registration via ZSVR / LUCID, registration number [LUCID-XXXXXX]
ISO 9001
quality management at all partner facilities
