{"id":194255,"date":"2026-09-03T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/194255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:07:09","slug":"canadian-paper-cup-and-bowl-maker-sees-growing-local-demand-amid-tariffs-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/194255\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian paper cup and bowl maker sees growing local demand amid tariffs | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788426429_388_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A worker mans a cup pressing machine in the manufacturing facility of Eco Guardian in Aurora, Ont., on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Keito Newman<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 3, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian paper cup and bowl manufacturer is seeing growing demand from foodservice customers across the country as tariffs prompt coffee chains and fast-food restaurants to seek out more Canadian-made take-out packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Eco Guardian Inc., which makes compostable and recyclable cups and bowls in Aurora, Ont., is one of a number of Canadian manufacturers poised to potentially expand its domestic business amid the escalating trade war between Canada and the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>Company founder and CEO Anil Abrol says Eco Guardian was about to sign a deal with a U.S. manufacturer of paperboard when the first round of tariff threats hit last year, prompting the company to change course and source its raw material from Asia and Europe instead. <\/p>\n<p>He says that shift means the company now makes its products in Canada without U.S.-origin inputs, shielding it from Canadian retaliatory tariffs and making its cups and bowls more attractive to the domestic foodservice industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker mans a cup pressing machine in the manufacturing facility of Eco Guardian in Aurora, Ont., on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[214,17,286,280,287,279,281,282,116,283,284,285,49],"class_list":["post-194255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}