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Sustainable packaging solutions from SÜDPACK

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The future belongs to sustainable packaging solutions. Reflecting this fact, film manufacturer SÜDPACK presented its product and service portfolio in this area at the FACHPACK 2024.

Apart from packaging solutions for fresh foods, the company offers a PP-based concept for packaging coffee in stand-up pouches as a substitute for the usual PET/aluminum composites. “According to our internal LCA calculations, that reduces the carbon footprint of a coffee package by more than 30%,” said Valeska Haux, Vice President Strategic Marketing & Sustainability at SÜDPACK. Further advantages are the high material efficiency due to reduced density, optimal barrier properties thanks to the excellent water vapor barrier provided by PP, and outstanding ease of processing, which is down to the thermal resistance. The innovations at the booth also included the (Multi-)Peel PET floatable solution. Thanks to its low density, the floatable top web can be separated during recycling from PET trays, producing a clean recycled material flow. For producers of nuts, sweet and savory snacks, as well as spices, coffee, and tea, SÜDPACK also offers a sustainable solution: PP and PE-based, recyclable monomaterials for manufacturing stand-up pouches with or without reclose systems are a sustainable alternative to conventional film structures. For producers and packagers of liquid or pasty foods such as fruit purees, pouches can also be fitted with spouts. Together with the cooperation partners SN Maschinenbau and MENSHEN, SÜDPACK offers an overall concept for easy and reliable in-house production of spouted pouches.

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