The Story...
In the fall of 2006, Formaticum was born in Portland, Oregon by a cheese fanatic who was sick of being told plastic wrap was the mortal enemy of cheese and not to use it without ever being offered a viable alternative. Fed up, he went to France, checked out the leading Parisian fromageries and discovered a world of special materials designed specifically to wrap cheese. So, a few months later he started importing the very same materials and the rest is now history. Fast forward a few years until the fall of 2009, when we looked at a map and realized that New York is closer to France than Oregon, and relocated to Brooklyn.
Our mission is to extend life and good flavor by preventing cheese from suffocating inside the ubiquitous plastic wrap coffin. Our two-pronged approach to eradicating fromage-icide, once and for all, includes offering professional quality cheese paper in retail form for home use and convincing every cheese retailer to only use materials designed specifically for cheese. We have made a good start, but our work is not done and we need your help! Join our cause by demanding the best and telling your cheese retailer to use or sell packaging designed for cheese. It is a matter of life or death... for your cheese that is.
