Henrik Larsson Lyon Yangi as Chairman of the Board during a defining moment in their journey to commercialization. Based in Gothenburg, Henrik brings extensive experience from global industrial and technology companies. His background spans finance, operations, sales, and executive leadership, with deep expertise in scaling organizations and navigating public markets.
Yangi today introduces a dry-formed fiber food tray. The tray combines reliable performance, extended shelf life, and premium surface quality with expanded design freedom for brands. Produced using Cellera®, Yangi’s turnkey dry forming platform, packaging producers and converters can implement industrial-scale dry forming to deliver cost-competitive, high-quality products.
Yangi has successfully secured 10 million euros in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, a significant milestone and a strong vote of confidence in today’s cautious investment climate. The round is led by Industrifonden, with participation from two global industrial players and from Almi Invest GreenTech, reinforcing Yangi’s position as a key player in the transition to renewable packaging.
Yangi, a pioneer in fiber-based packaging innovation, has been awarded 40 MSEK from the Swedish Energy Agency’s Pilot and Demonstration Program to establish Celerate, the company’s first full-scale demonstration plant for industrializing its dry forming platform, Cellera®.
Yangi announces the market entry of Yangi Cellera®, its industrial serial machine platform designed to scale fiber-based dry forming technology for packaging. The release of Cellera marks a key step in commercializing a more sustainable alternative to traditional plastic and wet-molded packaging, enabling brand owners to access commercially ready, fiber-based solutions as early as 2026.
Yangi today unveils its latest innovation: a fiber-based food tray engineered to replace traditional plastic in ready meals, meat, and takeaway applications. Versatile, functional, and fully future-aligned, it offers brands a scalable solution to meet growing demand for sustainable food packaging.
Sweden’s leadership in science and engineering shone through as three sustainability-focused companies — Enginzyme, Enjay Systems, and Yangi — were selected for Mondelēz International’s CoLab Tech accelerator. The global snack producer chose ten start-ups worldwide to join an eight-week innovation program — with Sweden representing nearly one-third of the cohort.
Yangi announces the selection of AP&T as its key supplier to develop and integrate a tailor-made press solution for the industrial dry forming platform. With deep expertise in advanced forming technologies and roots in Sweden, AP&T brings global capability and proven engineering excellence to support Yangi’s next stage of scale.
Yangi and BIM Kemi, a specialty chemical company with a long-standing history of developing and producing chemical formulations for the pulp, paper, and packaging industry, are excited to announce the strengthening of their collaboration, with the aim of further developing advanced material recipes tailored to meet the specific process and product requirements for Yangi’s dry forming process.
Today, we are thrilled to introduces our new innovative fiber-based container lid as part of our dry formed product portfolio. Designed to meet the consumer's growing preference for environmentally conscious options, the container lid caters to the packaging needs of dry and ambient food products. Packaging producers and brands can now provide a timely solution for sustainable packaging requiremen
Yangi now confirms GDM, a Coesia company, as its key scale-up partner. With deep industrial expertise and global reach, GDM strengthens Yangi’s pathway to market expansion and seamless integration of its sustainable technology across sectors.
Trific is a unique 48-hour travel kit that has been developed through collaboration from partners across the entire packaging value chain who are committed to developing future-proof solutions, inviting brands to explore their current packaging portfolio to replace them with more sustainable alternatives.
Yangi strengthens its investor base with the entry of Voith — the global technology leader — and luxury house CHANEL, who together signed a share purchase agreement in December 2022. They join FutureLab & Partners and Turret Oy to form a powerful consortium of venture and industrial investors, securing Yangi’s long-term growth and momentum into 2023 and beyond.
To aid and speed up the shift from fossil-based plastic packaging, Yangi has initiated a strategic research collaboration project with partners Holmen Iggesund, Solenis, Fiber-X, FutureLab & Partners AB, Duni Group, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Lund University, and a premium brand owner within the consumer goods segment.
The consortium is represented by actors from the packaging value
Yangi has made a breakthrough in developing grease and water-resistant packaging for take away solutions, which fulfils the requirements for recyclability and barrier performance for food on the go. The result is a socially and environmentally sustainable replacement solution to both plastic and wet moulded take away packaging products.
In a strategic collaboration with the Norwegian machine builder Fimtech, Yangi is now completing a new machine platform solution for 24/7-manufacturing of dry formed fiber packaging solutions. Combining Yangi’s learnings from more than 10 years of development with Fimtech’s broad experience from building highly innovative machinery we have together developed a unique machine technology, targeting
We are very excited to announce that we have been awarded a Dieline Plastic Free Innovation Award for our work with Yangi – a fiber-based alternative to plastic beauty packaging, a collaboration development between The Loop Factory + Grow.
We are very excited to announce that we have been awarded a Dieline Plastic Free Innovation Award for our work with Yangi – a fiber-based alternative to plas
