Sustainability

Mark Brooker, Director of Cama UK Ltd., looks into sustainability in the packaging industry and explains that it’s not just about the machines, it’s about the entire ethos of a company and what it can deliver to its customers.

Support a virtuous recycling chain, cheaper for businesses, capable of containing the costs of collection and treatment of plastic waste and, at the same time, of preserving the environment. It is with these objectives that Aliplast, a leading company in the plastic recycling sector, created the PARI system.

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Packaging for frozen products made with a recyclable polyethylene monofilm, conceived as an alternative to conventional laminated plastic films.

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Flexible compostable packaging, suitable for food contact and suitable for packaging products that do not need a barrier

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The shrink film with high barrier properties CRYOVAC Brand BDF® Soft is the result of two decades of innovation and development conducted by Sealed Air on the CRYOVAC Brand BDF® range.

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Ice cream tray made of compostable paper and biopolymer, recoverable both as biowaste and as paper.

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GreenyPack is a complete line of recycled plastic pallets, reusable and recyclable at the end of their lifecycle.

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Smile Green Lite is a resealable film for preforms that can be welded on paper or wood fiber.

Kurz and Luxoro: together for the environment. The initiatives of the two partners who, albeit with due differences, demonstrate an uncommon community of intent and having long implemented a forward-looking strategy.

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.

Latest from Volpak. The company puts in place a new approach to partnership and, on the technological front, offers the high-speed, top-of-the-range HFFS machine SC+ in a "sustainable ready" version.

Reduction of thicknesses and simplification of packaging film structures: It is along these lines that ITP - Industria Termoplastica Pavese has been moving for some time, also accepting the requests expressed by the EU in the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy.