New Packaging Equipment: August 2022
When setting green/sustainability goals, consumer packaged goods companies are moving beyond a narrow focus to look holistically and collaboratively at products, packaging, and operations.
Company: Formost Fuji
Website: www.formostfuji.com
Equipment Snapshot: Formost Fuji, Woodinville, WA, manufactures flow wrappers that are designed to increase efficiency and help bakery and snack producers achieve their sustainable packaging solutions.
Company: Syntegon
Website: www.syntegon.com
Equipment Snapshot: Syntegon Technology has developed retrofit solutions for existing machines that allow manufacturers to process conventional plastics as well as sustainable options such as paper or mono-material. For example, its “paper-ON-form” retrofit kit for horizontal packaging machines allows manufacturers to process paper at speeds comparable to those in conventional plastic packaging.
Company: R.A Jones
Website: www.rajones.com/en
Equipment Snapshot: R.A Jones Group is striving to adapt its high-speed pouch machines to run sustainable mono material webs. Growing consumer demand for packaging materials that are easily recyclable has provided sufficient cause for its engineers to solve the technical challenges associated with these substrates. Mono material webs require better control of both heat for sealing and web tension for pouch registration.
Company: Amcor Flexibles North America
Website: www.amcor.com/afna
Equipment Snapshot: Amcor Flexibles North America offers three paths to green packaging: recycle-ready (mono PE) films, compostable films, and paper. These materials are available in a variety of product formats such as flow-wrap/bar-wrap, pouch, over-wrap, vertical form/fill/seal, and lidding. The company recently introduced AmPrima PE Plus, a recycle ready, heat-resistant solution for high-speed flow-wrap or form/fill/seal pouching that allows users to run at commercial line speeds.
Company: Fortis Solutions Group
Website: https://fortissolutionsgroup.com/
Equipment Snapshot: Fortis Solutions Group provides a wide range of sustainable materials. Options include pressure-sensitive labels for PET containers that wash off during the recycling process, shrink sleeves that do not impact the PET recycling process or de-seam, flexible packaging that contains sustainably sourced materials, and paperboard folding cartons.
Company: Dow
Website: www.dow.com/en-us/market/mkt-packaging.html
Equipment Snapshot: In support of its Close the Loop sustainability goal, Dow aims to enable all packaging applications to be reusable or recyclable by 2035. The company has identified performance targets that must be achieved to enable all-PE recyclable films. The three main categories it is focusing on are optimizing the machinability, barrier and abuse performance of films.
Company: Kwik Lok
Website: www.kwiklok.com
Equipment Snapshot: Kwik Lok’s Eco-Lok brand helps companies reduce plastic and their carbon footprint. “In some markets, we are providing zero percent plastic options,” says Karen Reed, global director of marketing and communications. “If their only goal is to reduce the use of plastic on a larger scale, Fibre-Lok is an ideal closure option. Both products have been tested to be sure that they operate with current Kwik Lok closing machines and work in the environments for which they are intended.”
Company: Bedford Industries
Website: www.bedford.com
Equipment Snapshot: For many years, Bedford Twist Tie products have been used to secure product safety and freshness. Bedford Industries TagBack program allows consumers to return their used twist ties to the company. The program has been well received by retailers and consumers, who have returned more than 110,000 pounds of materials.
Company: Sealstrip Corp.
Website: https://sealstrip.com/
Equipment Snapshot: Sealstrip Corp. has developed VerdeSeal, a recyclable reseal material that works in-conjunction with recyclable flexible packaging films to create a complete recyclable package. VerdeSeal can be utilized in other Sealstrip products such as FreshPak.