Experience sustainable packaging live

Special papers for packaging, barrier paper for better food protection, new functional paper packaging with excellent gravure printing results: all Sappi's future-oriented solutions will be presented (and not by chance) at a "virtual fair" from 6 to 31 May on the website www.sappi‑interpack.com

Sappi teaches us how to make “virtue out of necessity": after interpack being postponed to 2021, the global supplier of sustainable products and solutions in wood fibre, printing and packaging paper, support and protection papers has not lost heart and has decided to show off the products developed and available to date, creating a special online event.

So, for now, customers and operators are “virtually” invited to view the portfolio of packaging and speciality papers, while hoping to meet them in person in Duesseldorf next year, as Thomas Kratochwill, Vice President Sales & Marketing Packaging and Speciality Papers at Sappi Europe, hopes.

Pro Planet Paper Packaging - welcome to the new pack-age

The market leader in functional paper packaging will present numerous opportunities for its customers to package food or non-food products in sustainable, premium packaging. In doing so, the company is contributing to the UN’s sustainability development goals. Based on these 17 goals, the global community is committed to a better future and integrates economic, environmental and social factors.

High product protection thanks to perfectly coordinated papers

> Sappi’s expertise is particularly significant in the Functional Paper Packaging sector: In the virtual exhibition, in addition to information, practical examples will be presented, illustrating how different and manifold the barrier papers can be used.

• With the Sappi Guard range (photo 2), the producer will present barrier papers that render additional special coatings or laminations superfluous, resulting in materials that can be recycled in the paper stream. Featuring integrated barriers, they ensure that the product quality of foods and other goods is preserved. The second generation of the barrier papers will make its premiere at virtual interpack.
   

• Sappi Seal is perfect for packaging solutions where the priority is heat sealability. It also offers a moisture barrier against water vapour and is produced with 95% renewable materials. The single side coated paper can be printed via offset or flexo printing. For gravure printing applications, the manufacturer also offers the new version Sappi Seal G, which will be presented for the first time at the trade fair and offers even greater printing results.

A solution for every occasion

> With its flexible packaging papers, the innovation leader offers an enormous range of solutions for various types of flexible packaging, applicable for food and non-food products.

• Among the Flexible Packaging Papers, spotlight on Carcoat Repella Flex: a semi-gloss, single side coated, greaseproof paper, which is perfect for packaging greasy foods with direct product contact, such as butter, cheese and meat.

• As a home-compostable paper, Algro Nature meets the current demand for fully recyclable packaging.

> Label papers from Sappi are ideally suited for customers from the beverages industry looking to make their products stand out in a crowded market.

• The new wet-glue label Parade Label 4 has excellent machine runnability properties. Sappi also offers special grease resistance papers for the labelling of oil bottles. The label papers are very resistant and of course, recyclable.

> Sappi's premium solid bleached board range has been further enhanced and completed (just in time for the virtual fair).

• Sappi introduces a further development in the Algro Design Advanced range (photo 3), which has a lightly coated reverse side that balances enhanced ink lift with a natural tactile feel: on offer, the new lightweight 160 g/m² version (the range has so far varied from 220 to 380 g/m²).
  «Algro Design Advanced enables our customers to be extremely flexible in the design choices they make for their intended product. Its lightly coated reverse side offers considerably more potential for projects with higher ink coverage, more brilliance, greater contrast and more diverse finishing options» explains Matthew Campbell, Product Group Manager Paperboard at Sappi Europe.

• The folding box board, Atelier (photo 4) will also be showcased. With its market leading whiteness and brightness combination, aligned with exemplary surface consistency, this paperboard enables branded goods to be presented very effectively at the point of sale. Atelier also benefits from a range extension, as Sappi will present the new 220 g/m² version at virtual interpack for the first time.