Coca-Cola and Absolut's trials will be the first real-world test of whether the technology holds up to the rough-and-tumble logistics of food transport.

For now, one of the benefits of using a plastic screw top is that the prototypes can be used on existing production lines.

"It's going to be a bio-based barrier, that's really something minimal, that keeps that food safe, that keeps the product safe at the same time," Mr Michelsen said.

"With a clever combination of product design and the strong fibre blend, that's what makes it really possible to not break under pressure."

"That's part of the secret really," he explained, adding that moulding a single object - rather than relying on joins - ensured the bonds between the fibres stayed robust.

After more than seven years of lab work, the firm is now ready to host a trial in Hungary this summer of Coca-Cola's fruit drink Adez. Initially, this will involve 2,000 bottles distributed via a local retail chain.

Michael Michelsen, the firm's commercial manager, says the bottles are formed out of a single piece of paper-fibre-based material to give them strength.

"Paper bottles are really exciting for packaging innovation geeks like us, but pilot concepts like this have been knocking around for a few years without taking off in a big way," he explained.

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"We have a good understanding already of what the bottle will go through as we put it into the real world. But there is a certain point where you just can't design yourself out of this at a desk, right?

On top of that, the paper needs to be mouldable, to create distinct bottle shapes and sizes for different brands, and take ink for printing their labels.

Even if these tests go well, paper bottles will be "a niche product for a while yet", according to Fin Slater, digital editor at Packaging Europe magazine, external.

Coca-Cola was ranked the world's number one plastic polluter by charity group Break Free From Plastic last year, closely followed by other drink-producers Pepsi and Nestle.

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And there's a cost issue. Plastic bottles are cheap and effective - "another reason why the paper bottle is likely to be used in added-value niche applications at the start".

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"Each sustainable innovation not only pushes the boundaries in relation to that particular packaging material, but increases the pressure on other materials to drive up recyclability, and drive down carbon footprints."

"We have a couple of different options... we have the technology path pretty much chosen, but it is something that we definitely need to pilot and prototype."

But Tetra Pak - which you may know as the paper-and-plastic carton that milk and juices often come in - managed to pull off a similar feat in the mid-20th Century.

But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated drinks.

Part of the challenge has been to create a structure capable of withstanding the forces exerted by fizzy drinks - such as cola and beer - which are bottled under pressure.

Absolut, the vodka-maker, is due to test 2,000 paper bottles of it own in the UK and Sweden of its pre-mixed, carbonated raspberry drink.

Because the paper cannot come into direct contact with liquids, the plan is to use a plant-based coating on the inside of the bottle.