Innovations

UPM Specialty Papers now offers a compostable solution for paper-based food stickers. UPM LabelCoat and UPM LabelCoat Prime label face papers are certified as both industrially (EN13432:2000) and home compostable (NFT51-800:2015), helping customers and brand owners meet EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation proposal (PPWR) requirements.

PPWR aims to ensure that all packaging in the EU must be reusable or recyclable by 2030. It also sets out the requirements that sticky labels attached to fruits and vegetables need to be compostable in industrially controlled conditions.

In a breakthrough development, a fully recyclable mono-material PE pouch has been created that has similar properties to barely recyclable multi-material laminated pouches. The new pouches utilize the latest polymers, inks, functional coatings, adhesives and conversion technology and were the product of a unique value chain collaboration of ExxonMobil, Henkel, Kraus Folie, Siegwerk and Windmöller & Hölscher.

The form of the bespoke bottle structure is inspired by the angular, tapered silhouette of classic cocktail shakers. The embossed facets covering the bottle deliver premium cues, whilst helping consumers and bartenders grip the bottle. Topped off with a bespoke faceted, metallic closure that can be used as a functional jigger.

Company’s PaperX Tube significantly reduces plastic materials and overall carbon footprint.

Example:

Width : 2000mm

No. runways:2x(500x500mm)

Monoextrusion or Co-extrusion 5+5 layer,3rd -4th layer lamination 

Switch inline with roll winder

Production Capacity: 500kg/h-100m/min in rolls.

PAC Machinery Bags and Materials announces a new polyethylene bag formulation made from 100% recycled resin. Designed for automatic bagging machines, the Recylene line of Rollbags is made with the environmentally conscious brand and businesses in mind, with material now produced using up to 100% recycled resin content.

The application of adhesives in every industry is only one stage of the production process in many sectors. It is a part of the whole. That is why Meler France team, in collaboration with HMI-MBS and Universal Robots, has organized a workshop on its premises to show how cobotics could optimized adhesive application at the end of the line.

Polypharmacy describes permanent therapies involving the simultaneous prescription of several medications. In our aging societies, that concerns more and more people. However, complex medication plans do not make it easy for patients to always take the right medicine at the right time, which may have fatal consequences: According to estimates, wrong parallel intake of different medicines causes up to 25,000 deaths per year in Germany alone. The Smart Blister Card from Schreiner MediPharm provides an innovative way of monitoring adherence to the medication regimen. 

The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), a technology that converts thermal energy into clean electricity and useful heat, can make almost every industrial production process above a certain thermal energy threshold more environmentally friendly. The new Cyplan® ORC 70 NT now enables this in the lower-temperature segment, which is typical for hot-water networks, geothermal heat sources, and many industrial processes. The low-temperature system has a maximum possible gross output of 70 kWe.

Economical above 85°C