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Tim Hortons & Footprint® partner to offer fiber lids for hot beverages

Challenge
Solution
Impact

SUMMARY

Footprint leads the way in sustainable quick-serve restaurant solutions

Footprint's partnership with Tim Hortons, one of North America's largest restaurant chains, helps further the sustainability goals of the brand's Tims for Good platform. This partnership leverages Footprint’s proprietary technology to design, develop and manufacture customized, plant-based fiber solutions lids for Tim Hortons' hot beverage cups. Enter, Footprint.

Stay with us! We’re about to get to the good part about how we helped bring Tim Horton’s philosophy to life.

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The Challenge

Create a lid aligned with Tim Horton’s sustainability standards and goals as well as a demanding list of specifications:

  • Must be water- and oil-resistant
  • Use plant-based fiber
  • Avoid single-use plastic
  • Capable of producing at scale

How’d we do?

OUR SOLUTION

Custom, durable plant-based fiber lids for Tim Hortons hot beverage cups

These plastic-free lids, designed to be recyclable and compostable, are available in two sizes to fit a range of four different cups. The lid includes a sipping hole with a re-closable tab. After successful consumer market tests at select restaurants in the Vancouver and Toronto markets, the lid is undergoing extensive functional and dimensional testing before a national launch in Q4 2024.

OUR PROCESS

Product Design
Prototyping
Tooling Design & Manufacturing
Materials Engineering
Process Engineering
Testing & Quality Assurance

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IMPACT & OUTCOME

Results

Asset 10

Billions of Units Annually

No Emissions

CO2 Emission Reduction

NO PFAS

Plastic-Free

Partners in Sustainability

Footprint Co-founder and CEO Troy Swope:

“We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Tim Hortons, an iconic brand and Canada’s largest quick-service restaurant chain,” said Footprint founder and CEO Troy Swope. “The quick-serve restaurant industry is undertaking a massive effort to transition the market away from single-use plastic, and we are proud that Tim Hortons has chosen to partner with Footprint for fiber-based hot lids to accompany its iconic coffee."

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Our solutions are changing the world.

Reach out today to discuss how we can continue innovating sustainably, together.

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