Food Packaging

It combines fast, high-quality operation with maximum flexibility and uptime. Apart from producing premium quality D-ZIP bags, this easy-to-use machine can produce more than 10 different bag styles for a wide variety of applications such as candy, nuts, frozen fruits and grated cheese.

The GEA SmartPacker CX400 D-Zip design reduces the amount of plastic required for the zipper by approximately 15 percent by eliminating the zipper-material in the cross seal. Additional plastic waste is avoided given no punching is required in making the zipper.

While answering a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&C) Ashwini Kumar Choubey said, “The MoEF&CC has notified guidelines on EPR for plastic packaging which stipulate mandatory targets on producers, importers and brand owners for reuse of rigid plastic packaging. The minimum level of recycling of plastic packaging waste and minimum use of recycled plastic content in plastic packaging has also been notified.

Features

• Premium soft tactile feel
• Superior scuff, scratch, and burnishing resistant properties
• Superior ink and adhesive adhesion
• Low gloss matte opaque finish prevents glaring surface wash out of graphics
• Low opacity finish enables quick and accurate color match brilliance

Applications

• Luxury Packaging
• Flexible Packaging
• Food and Beverage
• Pet Food
• Coffee bags
• Book Covers

Emballator Innovation Center, with the same desire on reducing food waste, got involved in the project during 2021 and have since then worked with migration tests of the label.

“Since it’s ink in the label it’s important that it doesn’t transfer any chemicals to the meat. We had to modify the tests to make it fit the reality, so it was quite tricky”, says Christian Olsson, Material Specialist at Emballator Innovation Center.

Offering its iconic beverages in reusable packaging and on innovative platforms that eliminate the need for single-use virgin plastic is not new to PepsiCo – it has been an important element of the company's Sustainable Packaging Vision since 2018, when PepsiCo invested over $3.2B to acquire SodaStream, the world's leading reuse platform, and expressed its commitment to a circular economy for plastics by joining the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment.

Creative agency Hell Yeah! has created a new look squeezy bottle for sustainable condiment brand Rubies in the Rubble’s flagship ketchup product. 

The redesign, which is on shelf now, aims to premiumise the brand, enhance taste appeal and stand out in an incredibly competitive category.

Rubies in the Rubble produces delicious ketchups, mayos and relishes using surplus cosmetically imperfect ingredients, which would otherwise have gone to waste. 

Sealester is a French start-up and has created a digital sealing system using thermal energy that can be integrated into industrial production lines. Potential applications include sachets, pouches and stand-up pouches. 

Guyenne’s Sunibarrier range is designed to be in direct contact with food products and has achieved the necessary barrier properties without the use of plastic film. The manufacturer described it as “the packaging of tomorrow”.

Extracts from MEP Christine Schneider and Secretary General of APEAL Alexis Van Maercke on food waste in EU.

The numbers are appalling around 88 million tonnes of food ends up in waste in the EU every year at an estimated cost of €143 billion.  We throw out 180 kilograms of food per person and even 50 per cent of healthy and edible food ends up in the garbage bin in households, stores, restaurants, and at other points on the food supply chain.