REVIPAC

What REVIPAC does

REVIPAC is a non-profit industry association (association loi 1901) founded in 1993 by the French paper-cardboard packaging industry to operate the sector option within the statutory Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) framework for household packaging. Its core function is the Garantie de Reprise — a legally backed guarantee that any French territorial authority's sorted household paper-cardboard packaging will be recovered and recycled by an accredited paper mill, regardless of market conditions. REVIPAC coordinates material flows between fragmented territorial authorities and sorting centers on one side and 18 accredited paper mill repreneurs on the other, governed by two material standards — PCNC (Papier-Carton Non Complexé, covering standard and corrugated streams) and PCC (Papier-Carton Complexé, covering liquid food packaging) — and a network of Performance Technical Prescriptions (PTP) for bale conditioning, moisture, and contamination limits.

The association does not develop proprietary software; its technology footprint consists of the PCNC and PCC standards, the CEREC recyclability evaluation system co-created with CITEO (an open-source technical opinion and recycling compatibility matrix), and an extranet portal for contracted authorities. REVIPAC's economics are structured around the REP financing framework: PCNC prices reference European market data (EUWID) and French data (Copacel mercuriales), while PCC is fixed at 13 euros per tonne, with both audited annually by an independent body. The association publishes monthly statistical reports and price indices, runs educational programs including an interactive virtual recycling plant tour, and represents the paper-cardboard packaging sector in regulatory and eco-design discussions.

Name

REVIPAC

Legal name

REVIPAC

Website

https://revipac.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

REVIPAC is a French non-profit sector association founded in 1993 that guarantees recovery and recycling of household paper-cardboard packaging for territorial authorities under the statutory Extended Producer Responsibility framework, coordinating with 18 accredited paper mill repreneurs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Extended Producer Responsibility Coordination Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Packaging Recovery & Closed-Loop Programs (Take-Back, Deposit-Return, EPR Support) (IMALAMAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sustainability Testing, Certification & Compliance (LCA, Recyclability/Compostability Testing, FSC/PEFC) (IMALAMAK)

Keywords

• Packaging recycling services
• Extended producer responsibility
• Paper-cardboard recovery
• Recycling standards specification
• Sector association services

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Eco-contribution financing via REP system: REVIPAC is a non-profit association (loi 1901) created in 1993 by the paper-cardboard packaging industry as part of the Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) system for household packaging. The system is financed by eco-contributions paid by producers placing packaging on the market. REVIPAC coordinates the sector, pays repreneurs on behalf of paper mills, guarantees payment to territorial authorities, and publishes monthly statistical reports and price indices. Revenue is not generated through sales but through the statutory REP financing framework.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

REVIPAC is a non-profit association that coordinates the French paper-cardboard packaging recovery sector under the statutory Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) framework. Its primary service is the Garantie de Reprise, a legally backed guarantee that any French territorial authority can have its sorted household paper-cardboard packaging recovered and recycled, regardless of market conditions. The organization defines material quality standards (PCNC and PCC), publishes monthly recovery pricing indices audited by an independent body, and operates a network of 18 accredited paper mill recyclers across France for proximity-based recovery.

Product overview

REVIPAC is a non-profit industry association (association loi 1901) established in 1993 by the paper-cardboard packaging industry as part of the French Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) framework. The organization operates a guaranteed recovery system for municipal paper-cardboard packaging, coordinating with accredited paper mill recyclers and territorial collectivities. Its core offering is the Garantie de Reprise, a guaranteed recovery commitment ensuring collectivities can dispose of sorted paper-cardboard packaging regardless of market conditions. Supporting services include the Extranet member portal for contract and billing management, PCNC and PCC material standards specification, recovery price information, and industry representation functions. The organization also operates an interactive recycling factory visit program and provides educational resources on packaging recyclability through its website.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Garantie de Reprise (Guaranteed Recovery Service) The primary contracted service guaranteeing that any French territorial authority can have its sorted household paper-cardboard packaging recovered and recycled, regardless of economic conditions or market price fluctuations. The contract is signed for a minimum 3-year term with each authority allocated a proximity-based repreneur from the accredited network.
• Extranet Portal

Quantifiable outcome

• 81% recycling rate for household paper-cardboard packaging in 2024, three years ahead of the 2028 national target
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CEREC (Comité d'Évaluation du Recyclage des Emballages papiers Cartons)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007Co-created by REVIPAC and CITEO in 2007 to evaluate paper-cardboard packaging recyclability. Publishes open-source technical and general opinions and maintains a recycling compatibility matrix. Enables manufacturers to assess design impacts on paper mill recycling processes.
• COPACEL (Union Française des Industries des Cartons, Papiers et Celluloses)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Founding member of REVIPAC. Represents French paper, cardboard, and cellulose industries. Provides market reference prices (mercuriales) used to calculate PCNC recovery prices. Collaborates on annual statistical reports.
• COF (Carton Ondulé de France)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Founding member of REVIPAC. Represents the corrugated cardboard sector of France. Participates in sector governance and standards development.
• ACN (Alliance Carton Nature)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Founding member of REVIPAC. Promotes paper-cardboard packaging and its environmental benefits. Produces educational materials including 'Le vrai du faux' brochure on beverage carton recycling.
• CAP (Cartonnage et Articles de Papeterie)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Founding member of REVIPAC. Represents cardboard box and stationery article manufacturers. Participates in sector governance.
• MICROPAP (Groupement Professionnel des Fabricants de Papiers Enduits pour Emballage Alimentaire)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Founding member of REVIPAC. Professional group of manufacturers of coated papers for food packaging. Contributes to eco-design and recyclability discussions.
• CITEOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco-organism in the REP system. Co-creator of CEREC with REVIPAC. Publishes annual observatory on recovery quality. REVIPAC collaborates on quality standards, recyclability evaluation, and sector data.
• AdelpheminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco-organism operating in the REP system for household packaging in France. Listed as a partner organization in the REP framework.
• LEKOminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco-organism in the French REP system. Listed as a partner organization within the REP framework.
• Cartonnerie de GondardennescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAccredited repreneur (recycler) and associated member of REVIPAC. Receives and recycles paper-cardboard packaging from territorial authorities. Subject to periodic audit for accreditation.
• Saica Paper France (Nogent, Saint-Vallier, Venizel)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAccredited repreneur and associated member operating multiple paper mill sites in France. Invests in biomass energy and eco-design innovations. Developed recycled paper tape for bundling paper reels.
• Smurfit Westrock / Cellulose du PincoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAccredited repreneur and associated member. Won Trophées Zéro Impact 2025 with Wood2paperpack (100% fiber e-commerce packaging). Invested in French operations.
• DS Smith FrancecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAccredited repreneur and associated member. Site at Contoire-Hamel invested 4.5M€ in energy recovery system (20% gas savings, 5,000t CO2 reduction/year). Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray site investing 90M€ in biomass boiler (99,000t CO2 reduction/year). Part of DS Smith group targeting net-zero by 2050.
• Norske Skog GolbeycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAccredited repreneur and associated member. Converting from newsprint to recycled packaging paper (PPO). Investing 300M€ in new production line and 200M€ in France's largest biomass cogeneration unit (200 GWh electricity + 700 GWh heat/year). Will process 1 million tonnes recycled material annually.
• ADEME (Agence de la Transition Écologique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench Agency for Ecological Transition. Provides data for national recycling rates, publishes annual waste valuation studies. Provides financial support (subsidies) for biomass energy investments at paper mill sites (e.g., 15M€ subsidy to DS Smith Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray).
• Tetra PakminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeverage carton manufacturer. Partner in PolyAl recycling development. Invested 1M€ in Recon Polymers recycling facility in the Netherlands (8 kT/year capacity, processes 30% of French/Belgian/Dutch PolyAl). Testing paper-based caps for beverage cartons in Spain with Aneto.

Scale indicators18 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CITEO: CITEO is the French eco-organism governing EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) for household packaging—the parent partner co-running the CEREC recyclability committee with REVIPAC. Both operate as REP-mandated, producer-financed coordinators of the same French household packaging recovery system, with CITEO handling inter-material aggregation and REVIPAC managing the paper-cardboard sub-filière.
• ERP (European Recycling Platform): ERP is a pan-European producer-responsibility organization providing compliance services for WEEE, batteries, and packaging under multiple national EPR regimes. While broader in scope than REVIPAC, ERP's compliance-and-coordination model and producer-financed structure parallel REVIPAC's operating logic across multiple European markets.
• Adelphe: Adelphe is a French accredited eco-organism operating within the same REP framework as REVIPAC, focused on printed products and promotional items. Both are law 1901 non-profits that channel eco-contributions from producers and coordinate recovery with local authorities under state approval.
• RecyClass: RecyClass is the cross-European platform run by Plastics Recyclers Europe that maintains recyclability assessment methodologies and a design-for-recycling matrix for packaging—directly analogous to REVIPAC's CEREC committee and its compatibility matrix, but covering plastics and broader European scope.
• Eco-mobilier: Eco-mobilier is a French EPR eco-organization for furniture and bedding elements, structured as a law 1901 non-profit and operating under the same REP framework as REVIPAC. It is governed by producer finance, supports municipal collection, and offers comparable governance, accreditation, and recovery-guarantee mechanics for its material.

Others

• COPACEL: COPACEL is the French trade association for paper, cardboard, and cellulose producers and a founding partner of REVIPAC. It supplies monthly market price references (mercuriales) that underpin REVIPAC's PCNC pricing; while not a coordinator itself, it is a closely adjacent sectoral governance entity.

Regional players

• Ecoembes: Ecoembes is the Spanish EPR organization for household packaging, coordinating paper-cardboard and other packaging recovery with Spanish municipalities. Spain is one of the destination countries for REVIPAC's PCC exports (77% France, remainder Italy and Spain), making it the most geographically comparable peer to REVIPAC.
• Conai (Consorzio Nazionale Imballaggi): Conai is Italy's statutory EPR consortium covering household packaging recovery—including paper-cardboard via its Comieco sub-consortium. It is structurally the closest international analog to REVIPAC: a producer-financed coordinator guaranteeing outlet recovery for Italian municipalities, and notably the destination for some of REVIPAC's PCC overflow tonnage.
• ARA (Altstoff Recycling Austria): ARA is the Austrian EPR umbrella organization coordinating collection and recovery of packaging—including a dedicated paper-cardboard (Altpapier) stream—on behalf of obligated producers. Its single-sector-coordinator model with producer finance is a direct structural analog to REVIPAC's industry-option contract design.
• Grüner Punkt (DSD): Grüner Punkt / Duales System Deutschland (DSD) is Germany's leading EPR scheme for sales packaging, coordinating with German municipalities on collection, sorting, and recovery of paper-cardboard among other materials. As Germany's market-leading green-dot scheme, it offers the most direct large-market analog to REVIPAC's coordination model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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