Kimberly Kovacs
Chief Executive Officer
Leads company strategy and execution across commercial, partner, and platform programs.
About RENW
We help teams replace
EPS.
We help teams replace
EPS.
With more confidence.
RENW helps North American teams evaluate and adopt molded-fiber packaging for real cold-chain operations. We bring together product fit, cost logic, manufacturing direction, and rollout support so you can make a packaging change with fewer unknowns.
What we help you do
Talk to our team Understand whether molded fiber fits your product, lane, and current packout.
Compare thermal, freight, and total-cost implications against your baseline.
Move from interest to samples, trials, and rollout with a clearer plan.
How we evaluate fit
We look at packaging change from four angles at once: operations, economics, materials, and proof. That helps buyers avoid chasing a material story that does not hold up in the real world.
01
Real operating fit
We look at how a format behaves in handling, storage, packout, and transport - not just how it performs in isolation.
02
Total cost clarity
We focus on the full economics: unit cost, freight density, storage, labor touches, and rollout tradeoffs.
03
Performance by design
Materials, coatings, and structure all matter. We care about thermal hold, wet handling, strength, and recovery pathways together.
04
Evidence, not guesswork
When a packaging change makes sense, you should be able to defend it with data your operations and procurement teams can use.
People
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Our team
The North American operating team behind RENW’s commercial, technical, and program work—cold chain, samples, and rollout support.
Mike Lauder
Chief Operating Officer · Co-founder
Runs day-to-day operations, manufacturing alignment, and integration across programs.
Douglas Gay
Chief Revenue Officer
Owns revenue motion, customer engagement, and commercial pipeline development.
Conner Kupferberg
Director of Business Intelligence · Project lead · EPR specialist
Leads analytics, cross-functional project delivery, and extended producer responsibility tooling and narrative.
Extended leadership
Strategic advisors & platform partners
Colleagues who support programs alongside the core team—including Core RENW advisors and PAPACKS leadership you may work with through our molded-fiber platform partnership.
Core RENW
Beth Brandstatter
Strategic advisor
Co-founder. Advises on impact narrative, stakeholder alignment, and how teams stay coordinated across programs.
Core RENW
Sukhi Singh
Board member
Board oversight on governance, strategy, and long-term direction for the company.
PAPACKS
Guido Schmitz
Chief Technologist · VP, PAPACKS America Inc.
Bridges RENW with PAPACKS technology, formats, and North American technical programs.
PAPACKS
Michael Marchuk
Managing Partner
Aligns strategic partnership and platform relationships across the PAPACKS ecosystem.
Why PAPACKS
Visit papacks.com
The PAPACKS platform and RENW's role
Molded fiber · Industrial equipment · Reference-scale programs in EU cold chain & liquids
papacks.com
PAPACKS provides the platform foundation: molded-fiber formats, production systems, and publicly documented development collaborations and operating references, especially in Europe. Visit papacks.com for the official product range, equipment, and company news.
RENW is the North American commercialization and manufacturing story around that platform. We are focused on helping teams here evaluate which formats fit, what a qualification path looks like, and how domestic supply can be built around the right programs.
In practice, that means RENW is working toward U.S.-based production by integrating the right inputs, tooling, coatings, process controls, and operating partners around an established molded-fiber starting point.
For buyers, the value is straightforward: you are not starting from a blank concept. You can review real product families, compare fit against your current baseline, and move into samples, trials, and rollout planning with more confidence.
What good packaging
should do
01
Work in real operations
It has to hold up in handling, shipping, storage, and the day-to-day realities of your operation.
02
Generate useful proof
If a packaging change is worth making, you should be able to measure and explain why.
03
Fit real recovery systems
End-of-life claims should match the programs and recovery pathways your packaging will actually meet.
Fiber Box · engineering sample
End-to-end capability
What RENW is building
A packaging supply chain that runs from materials and design through manufacturing readiness and rollout support, with one accountable team helping connect the pieces.
Stage 01
Materials & coatings
Fiber inputs and coatings chosen around structural, thermal, and recovery requirements.
Stage 02
Design & testing
Format design shaped around packout, payload, lane conditions, and qualification needs.
Stage 03
Manufacturing readiness
Tooling, process controls, and supply planning aligned to the programs that are ready to move.
Stage 04
Rollout support
Samples, lane review, documentation, and deployment planning connected to your operations team.