Company’s Switzerland facilities are now fully powered by renewable electricity via hydroelectric power and an extensive new solar plant.

Thun, Switzerland – Hoffmann Neopac, a global provider of high-quality packaging for a broad array of industries and applications, has installed one of the largest solar power systems in Switzerland. The extensive green energy initiative, which costs more than 2 million Swiss Francs ($2.2 million), will make Hoffmann Neopac fully electricity sustainable at each of its two manufacturing sites in its home country.

Comprising a total of 12,000 square meters, the ambitious photovoltaic system will have the ability to generate as much as 2,616 kilowatts peak (kWp. For the company, this equals three-quarters of the electric power consumption at its Thun plant in Switzerland. As of this year, Hoffmann Neopac uses certified Swiss hydroelectric power to cover the remaining electrical power needs of both facilities in Switzerland.

According to Swissolar, the size of the solar power plant in Thun is among the top eight of its kind in the country. “The sweeping solar power initiative and our overall renewable electricity consumption brings Hoffmann Neopac a sizable step closer to its goal of total operational sustainability,” says Mark Aegler, CEO of Hoffmann Neopac. “It exemplifies our commitment to harness our power from renewable resources and, from there, manufacture our products from renewable, recyclable resources as well.”

Hoffmann Neopac AG has put a high priority to sustainably manufacturing its packaging solutions, as well as to push recyclability and recycled content for all the packaging products. For example, the company recently introduced a line of mono-material-barrier tube solutions, Polyfoil® MMB. The new offering was Europe’s first tube solution to achieve full technology approval from RecyClass™, and full recyclability grade A from SUEZ Circpack®.

A wide variety of EcoDesign solutions support the company’s commitment to sustainability-minded production breakthroughs. These includes high-density polyethylene (HDPE) caps; Recycled tubes with 64% PCR content; Lightweight plastic tubes with 30% weight reduction in the tube body; and bio-based tubes such as the novel PICEA wood-based tube. In the tin sector, the company has achieved full packaging steel circularity in collaboration with its steel supplier. The result has been the recent launch of RecyCan®, which is comprised of 100% PCR steel from German households.

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About Hoffmann Neopac

Hoffmann Neopac is a privately-owned company, headquartered in Thun, Switzerland. The group produces high-quality metal and plastic packaging in six locations: HOFFMANN tins in Thun and in Holland; Polyfoil® and plastic tubes with NEOPAC in Switzerland, Hungary and the US; and 3D Neopac in India. Its longstanding customers include pharmaceutical, cosmetics and consumer goods manufacturers in the European, North American and Asian markets.

Hoffmann Neopac employs around 1,250 employees and has a capacity of 1.3 billion tubes and 400 million tins. The company is dedicated to sustainability in both its manufacturing processes and corporate culture, including a dedicated eco-conscious packaging portfolio. For more information, visit www.hoffmann-neopac.com.  

Los Angeles, CA – 2021 is all about the color green. Across every industry, from fashion to beauty, sustainability has become a driving force and green is the color that represents a reconnection with nature, restoration of balance, and a healthy recovery in a post-COVID era.

For this year’s Earth Day, WWP Beauty is making its green commitment to make up with the Earth and create positive and purposeful impact through consistent, sustainable innovation and a renewed sustainable stock library that gives customers more solutions towards meeting their own sustainability goals. 

Michael Tognetti, Chairman of the WWP Beauty Sustainability Committee, says, “At WWP Beauty, we know that the path to sustainability looks different for every brand. For this reason we strive to create options for our customers that utilize eco-friendly materials and future-focused design strategies. All of our sustainable innovations are backed by data with validated sustainability claims generated using our Eco Analyzer Tool.”

Some of the company’s recent sustainable launches have included its ColorVue Lipstick which produces 85% fewer GHG emissions and uses 12% less plastic per piece compared to standard lipstick components, its Eco-Pac Tube which reduces GHG emissions by up to 93% and uses 19% less plastic per piece, and a Refillable Multi-Use Face and Body Stick.

To commemorate Earth Day, WWP Beauty is also launching two new sustainable stock packaging collections, the Cutsie Green Collection and the Mindful Collection.

Cutsie Green Collection – Sleek Sustainability 

The Cutsie Green Collection is made up of sleek, modernly designed cosmetic packaging options that include eyeshadow compacts, face and cheek compacts, a cushion compact, and a slimline lipstick and lip gloss package. Each component in the Cutsie Green Collection is made with PCR materials on the cover base and platform, and the slim designs of these compacts are 25-30% slimmer than a compact of a similar size. This not only reduces the use of virgin materials, but also creates a smaller carbon footprint during the development and shipment process.

Mindful Collection – Mindful Design Strategies

Future-focused design strategies such as mono-material composition and light-weighting offer different sustainability attributes. The Mindful Collection combines these strategies, creating products that have an impactful recyclability story, as well as use less plastic through light-weighting. This collection is made up of PCR compacts, a PCR, POM free airtight lipstick and lip crayon, PCR face stick, mono-material bio-PE (sugarcane) tubes that use up to 19% of plastic per piece, and a PCR powder jar with sifter. It is important to be mindful about which sustainable design strategies are being used because many consumers today are basing their purchasing decisions on the eco-friendly claims brands are making.

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About WWP Beauty

WWP Beauty is committed to developing future-focused, sustainable solutions for the global beauty industry through close collaboration, exceptional agility, and unparalleled scale. The company’s full-service offering of formula, packaging and accessories, paired with their in-house manufacturing capabilities allow them to stand out as the source for everything beauty. Through a worldwide team of beauty experts that span across North America, EMEA and APAC, WWP Beauty offers their customers global support at the local level. To learn more visit our website at www.wwpbeauty.com.

Certification affirms the company’s quality management systems meets ISO requirements

Auburn, AL, April 20, 2021 – Aptar CSP Technologies, a leader in material science and active packaging solutions (part of AptarGroup, Inc.), earned the International Organization for Standardization ISO 13485:2016 certification for both its U.S. and France-based plants. These internationally recognized standards set the requirements for a quality management system specific to the medical device industry.

An ISO 13485-approved site ensures consistent design, development, production, installation, and delivery of medical devices that are safe for their intended purpose. The ISO certifications come at a critical time as the company is currently preparing for commercialization of a new medical device using its proprietary 3-Phase Activ-Polymer™ platform technology.

In addition to this imminent medical device commercialization, the company’s patented Activ-Film™ technology is currently integrated into implantable medical devices to control the microclimate of the device, extending use life and improving performance. The technology can also be engineered as a critical component of the overall delivery system.

“With this ISO certification, we are well-positioned to serve our current and future medical device partners,” said Badre Hammond, VP Commercial Operations, Aptar CSP Technologies. “As we broaden our portfolio of offerings, we continue to invest in our quality systems and operational excellence to support continued growth.”

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About Aptar CSP Technologies
Aptar CSP Technologies is part of AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacturing of a broad range of drug delivery, consumer product dispensing and active material science solutions. Aptar’s innovative solutions and services serve a variety of end markets including pharmaceutical, beauty, personal care, home, food and beverage. Using insights, proprietary design, engineering and science to create dispensing, dosing and protective packaging technologies for many of the world’s leading brands, Aptar in turn makes a meaningful difference in the lives, looks, health and homes of millions of patients and consumers around the world. Aptar is headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois and has 13,000 dedicated employees in 20 countries. For more information, visit www.aptar.com.

Aptar CSP Technologies is the go-to material science and active packaging expert that transforms ideas into market opportunities, accelerates and de-risks the product development process, and provides complete solutions that improve consumers’ and patients’ lives. A global material science company, CSP provides innovative, highly-engineered active packaging solutions to protect sensitive products. CSP is a responsive, flexible partner committed to offering customers a single, reliable source for custom product design, development, and manufacturing. CSP has a proven track record of pioneering technological solutions that ensure product protection and enhance its customers’ brand equity. For more information, visit www.csptechnologies.com.

Market trends. New products, design and technology. These topics will be explored on 27 April 2021 in a live web event organized by SACMI in collaboration with Aptar and McKinsey

Sustainability, safety, e-commerce. Three vital pillars of the post-COVID “next normal” in packaging that SACMI will explore together with packaging multinational Aptar.

Starting off with analysis by McKinsey&Company, the event will be live-streamed via the SACMI interactive platform on 27 April 2021 at 15:00 CEST (and repeated on 28 April at 09:00 CEST).

The webinar will also present cap and closure assembly solutions, developed by SACMI-Velomat to provide quality, flexibility and cost savings.

The latter part of the meeting will look at in-line and off-line computer vision systems. Developed by SACMI on the basis of its decades of experience and unique know-how, these systems re-focus on quality and safety, crucial factors in current market trends and consumption habits.

Throughout the meeting (which will be simultaneously translated into 5 languages, English, Chinese, Russian, French and Spanish) participants can ask the team questions and explore specific areas of interest in greater depth.

To obtain further info and sign up, just click here.

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In its capacity as a solution provider and technology integrator, Greiner Assistec draws on its extensive solutions expertise in the production of innovative, functional plastics. And its collaboration with German startup innoME, a pioneer in the sensor technology space, has now delivered an impressive result: the development of a smart petri dish.

• First proof of concept for thermoformed plastic parts with printed sensor systems
• Smart petri dish prototype
• Strategic partnership with innoME (accensors)

Kremsmünster, Austria, April 2021. Greiner Assistec is currently working with accensors, an innoME GmbH business unit specializing in film sensor technology, on a development project aimed at creating printed sensor systems. The first milestone came in the form of a proof of concept for an intelligent petri dish.

Smart, printed sensor systems

In accensors, Greiner Assistec was able to bring a strong sensor technology partner on board. The aim of this strategic partnership is to offer future customers the option of buying thermoformed plastic parts with printed sensor systems, among other solutions. As part of the pilot project, an initial demo prototype has now been developed, taking the form of a smart petri dish. This involves printing two sensors on the film before putting it through a thermoforming process. And the resulting solution also allows for ongoing monitoring, with the initial prototype making it possible to check up on the pH value and the temperature of the medium in the dish using an accensors scanner and an app. The resulting data obtained via this process can be harnessed to gain new insights in the realm of research and development.

New generation of intelligent petri dishes

The advantages of the new technology are clear to see – specifically, in the manufacturing process. The intelligent sensor systems can be produced and printed onto the films at an affordable cost and in high volumes. During the thermoforming process, the film printed with the sensor technology is subsequently formed into a three-dimensional shape while retaining the sensors’ functionality, ensuring that the petri dishes can be monitored as effectively as possible. “The development of this smart petri dish has yielded a promising outcome and highlights one of many different possibilities for transforming plastic parts through the use of printed electronics. This makes the initial proof of concept an important step in establishing our new center of excellence for the development of smart plastics solutions in Kremsmünster, Austria,” explains Natascha Andraschek, technology manager at Greiner Assistec.

Eike Wilhelm Kottkamp, founder and CEO of innoME GmbH, likewise sees this project as extremely promising: “The collaboration with Greiner Assistec and implementation of thermoformed film sensors in 3D geometries are a key milestone on our roadmap. Together, we are pleased to be bringing this value proposition to market – and we are eagerly looking forward to the future. At the moment, we are holding preliminary discussions with parties interested in specific applications in the biotech, smart manufacturing, and agricultural sectors.”

Greiner Assistec will continue to work with strong partners such as innoME to deliver the smart petri dish and implement other approaches in the field of intelligent plastics solutions based on printed electronics.

Technology facts:

• Technology: Thermoforming of films with printed electronics
• Items printed: pH and temperature sensors
• Film material: PET

About Greiner Packaging & Greiner Assistec
Greiner Packaging is a leading European manufacturer of plastic packaging in the food and nonfood sectors. The company has enjoyed a reputation for outstanding solutions expertise in the fields of development, design, production, and decoration for 60 years. Greiner Packaging responds to the challenges of the market with two business units: Packaging and Assistec. While the Packaging unit focuses on innovative packaging solutions in the food and nonfood sectors, the Assistec unit is dedicated to producing custom-made technical parts and transit packaging solutions. Greiner Packaging employs a workforce of around 5,000 at more than 30 locations in 19 countries around the world. In 2019, the company generated annual sales revenues of €690 million (including joint ventures), which represents more than 40 percent of Greiner’s total sales

About innoME
accensors is a business unit of innoME GmbH, which was founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the Erwin Quarder Group. Its interdisciplinary team of engineers, chemists, physicists, and biologists develop and implement new sensor solutions at its locations in Munich and Espelkamp, Germany. accensors offers customized and customer-oriented film sensors that have enjoyed an enthusiastic reception from customers and end users alike, as well as providing valuable and sustainable knowledge through sensor data.

DUO is the first aerosol dispenser that produces two different spray rates from a single device.

Greiner Packaging is taking various steps to make its packaging solutions as sustainable as possible. One key approach is reducing material usage while maintaining or improving recyclability to save weight as well as cutting carbon emissions. The company is now unveiling a plastic cup for Greek yogurt that demonstrates the strong success of these efforts.

• Material reduced by 20 percent compared with current production methods
• Smaller carbon footprint thanks to reduction in materials
• Polypropylene (PP) for filling with warm or cold products
• IML decoration for optimal branding and premium look

Kremsmünster, Austria, April 2021. Austrian dairy company Ennstal Milch operates a filling plant for various flavors of Greek yogurt. Greiner Packaging has successfully developed an ideal packaging solution for the yogurt – a cup that features an appealing design while significantly reducing the use of plastic. The packaging manufacturer is now producing this solution as well, allowing it to respond to the market’s requirements and the trend toward lightweight packaging decorated with IML technology.

Reduced material usage: the approach for new packaging solutions

One aspect of Greiner Packaging’s sustainability strategy is reducing its material usage, a goal it has been pursuing for some time now. The company aims to produce packaging that exhibits the same functionality and improved recyclability compared with previous solutions in order to cut back on plastic from virgin materials as well as carbon emissions. This represents an essential, sustainable approach for the plastics experts – in addition to using recycled materials and renewable raw materials while increasing the recyclability of its packaging solutions to as much as 100 percent.

Sometimes, less is more

Greiner Packaging achieved a material savings of 20 percent for the new plastic cup for the Greek yogurt, having reduced the solution’s weight by making adjustments to technical conditions in production. And this reduction has absolutely no impact on the functionality of the cup or its suitability for logistics and filling line systems. Likewise, it is still just as easy to separate the empty cups and stack the sealed cups filled with yogurt. The polypropylene (PP) plastic used in the cups is designed to be suitable for filling with dairy products and other foods in a refrigerated environment or at room temperature. A concerted effort is already underway in Europe to build a collection and recycling infrastructure that is as comprehensive as possible, so the future prospects for recovering the material in optimal quantities are highly promising. Moreover, the carbon footprint incurred during transport is significantly reduced due to the decreased weight of the cup.

Almost endless design possibilities

The PP cup also offers numerous plus points in terms of its design. Thanks to the in-mold labeling technology – that is, the use of a label fused with the cup during the production process – the cup boasts a premium look and makes a particularly impressive statement on store shelves. IML allows for a tailored brand identity with the same high quality as photo printing, ideal for attracting the consumer’s attention at the POS. Double-sided or interactive labels can be used to take consumer interactions to the next level. A QR code or digital watermark, for example, can be integrated for competitions, promotions, or similar consumer engagement activities. Plus, a wide range of surface effects is available to enhance the product’s premium look, including soft touch, matte, ultra-glossy, metallic, transparent, or imitation paper finishes.

Another option: renewable materials

As part of its efforts to utilize more renewable materials, Greiner Packaging also offers its customers biocircular plastics on request, such as those made from agricultural production waste. Because Greiner Packaging is ISCC Plus certified (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification), the company’s customers can highlight this on their packaging solutions if their organizations are also certified as part of the value chain. In addition, customers can use sealing film made of polypropylene so that the cup, IML label, and sealing film are made of the same material. This represents a further step ahead in terms of recyclability.

“The new, lighter-weight IML cup for Greek yogurt is a great example of Greiner Packaging’s dedication to reducing material usage and the weight and carbon savings that come with it. The fact that we also make products from renewable materials on request, which in turn are 100 percent recyclable, is completely in line with our sustainable mindset and our mission to actively advance the transition to a circular economy,” says Philipp Maurer, key account and IML category manager at Greiner Packaging.

Packaging facts:

• Technology: Injection molding
• Decoration: IML
• Material: PP, including bio-circular on request

About Greiner Packaging

Greiner Packaging is a leading European manufacturer of plastic packaging in the food and nonfood sectors. The company has enjoyed a reputation for outstanding solutions expertise in the fields of development, design, production, and decoration for more than 60 years. Greiner Packaging responds to the challenges of the market with two business units: Packaging and Assistec. While the Packaging unit focuses on innovative packaging solutions, the Assistec unit is dedicated to producing custom-made technical parts. Greiner Packaging employs a workforce of around 5,000 at more than 30 locations in 19 countries around the world. In 2019, the company generated annual sales revenues of EUR 690 million (including joint ventures), which represents more than 40 percent of Greiner’s total sales.

Cremer’s WD Series counting & dispensing machines provide hygienic, efficient and 100% accurate solution for packaging frozen meatballs.

Towaco, New Jersey – Cremer, a leading supplier of product counting machines in the U.S. for a wide array of applications, recently assisted a major frozen food manufacturer in increasing its production capacity of frozen meatballs. The project, which also included improving ease of cleaning, centered around Cremer’s Washdown (WD) Series, a line of hygienic stainless steel counting machines designed for precise counting and dispensing of individual food products in a variety of applications where cleanliness is paramount.

The frozen food manufacturer needed a hygienic way to efficiently and accurately count its frozen meatballs, which come in one- and four-inch varieties, each with minor variances in per-item weight. But despite having a custom-built counting solution – a single machine with two lanes – the company was running only 60-70 pieces per minute. While functional, the system was incapable of handling the capacity the company needed. Additionally, gaps in the machine made it cumbersome to count the smaller one-inch meatball variety, as they frequently became stuck.

Another challenge was cleaning – especially necessary with frozen meat, where hygiene and preventing cross-contamination of different herbs and spices is crucial. The company’s older, manual machine contained many parts making for labor-intensive and time-consuming cleaning, and tool-dependent changeovers that led to longer-than-desired downtime.

The company turned to Cremer for an upgrade, and selected Cremer’s WD Series.

“Unlike most counting machines, which are limited in tolerance to pressurized water, the WD Series are specifically constructed to thrive in the harsh working environments typically encountered where washdown/wipedown procedures are necessary,” said Brian Pomponio, Business Development Manager of Cremer North America. “A Cremer counting machine is recognized for its limited number of moving parts, minimal contact surface and tool-free changeover which makes cleaning and maintenance a breeze.”

The WD Series’ stainless-steel frame and contact parts are corrosion-resistant and designed for low-pressure hose wash and sanitizing chemicals. The series also includes a separate parts trolley for convenient high-pressure sanitizing. All contact parts can be taken off and a duplicate set installed while the other is deep cleaned. This allows for strong flavorings in food varieties to remain entirely separate, segregation for vegan/non-vegan options, and allergy safety assurance.

Important for the company’s desire to increase capacity, Cremer’s WD Series counter is equipped with six lanes (with the option of up to 12), handling between 500 to 1,000 products per minute, depending on product size. The WD Series are scalable for varying production levels and compatible with all industrial packaging machines, minimizing the amount of ancillary equipment investments companies need to make.

Other features of the WD series include a product detection unit with 100 percent accuracy, hinged side panels for optimal cleanability and vibratory plates for product transport and separation. A timing hopper for discharging product counts is also built in, along with a vibratory sieve with collector tray.

The frozen food manufacturer has had its Cremer counting machine in operation for six months. In that time, the customer has seen a marked uptick in capacity, producing product ten times faster than before, while experiencing much less overall product overage. In fact, a new bagger was desired to keep up with the increase in production levels.

In addition, the customer’s washdown process has improved significantly with tool-free disassembly and quick changeovers ensuring a hygienic environment with less downtime.

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About Cremer

Since 1949, Cremer is the leading global supplier of counting machines and packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical, food, consumer goods and agricultural industries. As part of the Uhlmann Group, the Netherlands-based company is known worldwide for its dedicated focus on quality control.

Cremer’s highly technical and innovative machinery provides unsurpassed speed and precision, ensuring companies can count and package their products in a guaranteed accurate, fast, and profitable way. Cremer’s commitment to customized equipment solutions has led to a customer base ranging from small family-operated businesses to multinational corporations. For more information, visit www.cremer.com.

Troisdorf, April 9, 2021
After a forced break due to Covid-19, Chinaplas 2021 marks a new start of the trade show season for Reifenhäuser. From April 13 to 16, the specialist in plastics extrusion will exhibit in Hall 10 / Booth G07 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center. The company’s focus at the show will be on sustainable packaging solutions for a functioning circular economy. Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CSO of the Reifenhäuser Group, explains: “I am delighted to finally be able to resume in-person exchange with customers and partners - of course, in compliance with local hygiene regulations. Even if the ongoing travel restrictions mean that our Chinese colleagues from Reifenhäuser Plastics Machinery (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. are mainly in charge of the trade show appearance, it is a first step back to normality.”

Monomaterials and digital recycling solutions

Sustainable packaging solutions are the megatrend in the industry - and this is also the case at the largest plastics trade show in the Asian region. As a leading solution provider for Circular Economy products, Reifenhäuser promotes its production machines for monomaterial composites as well as other components. The problem with today's plastic packaging lies primarily in the material mix which cannot be separated in the recycling phase, or only with great difficulty. Therefore, no pure recyclates are obtainable from standard packaging, which explains why recyclability is low.

The solution: Customers produce monomaterial laminates (All-PE film) for flexible packaging on Reifenhäuser EVO Ultra Stretch blown film lines. The regular PET layer is replaced by stretched PE. With maximum stretching of
up to 1:10, the Ultra Stretch stretching unit gives PE film completely new mechanical properties. This is a simple replacement for PET and there is no need to adapt downstream processing steps. The unique and patented position of the stretching unit directly in the haul-off of the blown film line makes the process particularly stable and efficient. The film still warm from extrusion is stretched at the ideal time and without reheating. In addition, this simultaneously extends the natural annealing phase until the film is winded and gives the film the necessary time to adopt its new properties. The Ultra Stretch process is unique on the market and offers decisive advantages over film stretching that takes place conventionally between the haul-off and the winder. Visitors to the exhibition booth can experience the Ultra Stretch technology as an impressive 3D animation video and as part of a virtual 360° tour through the Reifenhäuser development center (Technology Center) projected on large event screens.

Reifenhäuser also presents a special highlight at the show: To be able to recycle fully recyclable plastic packaging at a high standard, special marking and data standards are required to identify packaging reliably when sorting waste streams and to make recycling properties transparent. Reifenhäuser is therefore promoting the R-Cycle tracing standard which is driven by a cross-company initiative. The standard can be networked as an open industry platform on all production and processing machines along the plastic packaging value chain and can store recycling relevant information automatically in a digital product passport. This information can then be retrieved in the waste sorting phase using digital watermarks in the printed image of the packaging.

Reifenhäuser will present this unique combination of fully recyclable monomaterials and digitalized recycling not only at its trade show booth, but also in a lecture at the "Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase 2021" that will take place at the Crowne Plaza Shenzhen Nanshan on April 12.

Biofilm for the Asian market

Another approach to sustainable packaging is biopolymers - plastics made from renewable raw materials. Reifenhäuser EVO Bio blown film lines are optimized specially to process biopolymers. They have a higher cooling capacity since biopolymers have a lower thermal conductivity. The range of applications is enormous and demand is growing on the Asian market. For example, milk bags popular in this country, or even mailing bags, can be easily produced using biopolymers. They have another advantage: After use, they are compostable. Customers can also process both bio-based and conventional raw materials flexibly on Reifenhäuser EVO Bio lines to respond rapidly to changing market requirements. To compensate for additional costs arising from the use of biopolymers, the line can be equipped with the optional EVO Ultra Flat Plus stretching unit which achieves savings of up to 40% in material resources. The stretching process makes the film stronger and stiffer, which means it can be made thinner with either identical or enhanced properties. In addition, stretching provides a better visual appearance.

Highly stable film through the use of water shock cooling

Besides sustainability, film performance naturally plays an important role - and here, Reifenhäuser offers a special technology highlight. With the EVO AquaCool series, customers produce highly robust and transparent film for particularly demanding applications, such as infusion bags for the medical sector. Instead of using air, the film tube is shock-cooled directly after extrusion by running water over the bubble. This creates the film’s special optical and mechanical properties. Subsequently, the water is removed from the film by vacuum. The vacuum calibration sets new market standards in terms of cooling capacity and film quality. With EVO AquaCool technology Reifenhäuser is one of the leading specialists in the medical sector.

Efficient flat film for safe food packaging

The coronavirus epidemic has revealed the vital importance of a safe and hygienic food supply for the ever-growing population of the world. Just as essential are methods to reduce food waste in the supply chain.
With high-performance MIREX barrier sheet systems, Reifenhäuser offers the film and packaging industry a safe and proven solution for the production of low-shrinkage and low-stress films with excellent thickness tolerances for optimized thermoforming performance. Mirex barrier systems clearly distinguish themselves from other common systems with their flexibility in combining layers and raw materials and the possibility of adjusting their distribution during ongoing production.
The patented REIcofeed Pro IE co-extrusion feedblock guarantees the best and most reliable single-layer thickness tolerances, which are critical for ensuring consistent barrier, seal and thermoforming film performance. In addition, it features a feedblock internal edge encapsulation device to reduce the use of barrier raw materials to the area of the film necessary for thermoforming. The additional edge encapsulation extruder usually required for this purpose, as well as the associated device on the flat die, can be eliminated. This saves space, energy and raw materials and increases the OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) of the extrusion line. The line has a broad range of applications, extending from standard packaging through to special "barrier thermoforming sheets" for coffee capsules.
On request, customers can obtain several product samples of the solutions exhibited on the trade show booth and receive competent advice from local Reifenhäuser experts who have many years of experience with the Asian market.

Nonwoven experts at Chinaplas

The ongoing high demand for nonwovens for protective face masks and medical protective clothing has resulted in an enormous increase in inquiries for nonwoven lines. Through its Reicofil business unit, Reifenhäuser is the global market leader for meltblown production lines - the high-performance filter material that effectively stops even the tiniest bacteria and viruses. That is why this year, in addition to film experts, nonwoven experts will also be in attendance at Chinaplas to field questions from the unabated high level of customer interest.

About the Reifenhäuser Group
With its highly specialized business units, the Reifenhäuser Group is the leading supplier of innovative technologies and components for plastics extrusion. Founded in 1911, the company supplies high-tech solutions all over the world. With its technologies and the know-how of its 1,600 employees, the Reifenhäuser Group has the world's largest competence network for plastics technology. CEO of the group is Bernd Reifenhäuser.

Driving the circular economy, hubergroup Print Solutions now offers a complete Cradle to Cradle Material Health Gold certified portfolio for commercial and packaging offset printing. For this purpose, the international printing ink specialist formulated a new ink range which is based on the low-migration MGA NATURA series and, therefore, suitable especially for printing food packaging. Moreover, the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovations Institute certified a number of water-based coatings of the ACRYLAC series with Gold status. As hubergroup produces a large proportion of the raw materials in its own Chemicals Division, the company can ensure sustainable action along the value chain in addition to that. 

Sustainability incorporated

In 2017, hubergroup was the first international ink manufacturer to receive a Cradle to Cradle certificate in the sheetfed offset sector and thus significantly advanced sustainability in the industry. Since then, the company has continuously improved the environmental performance of its products. While hubergroup’s commercial series ALPHA viva has already carried the Gold status since 2018, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovations Institute now also certified a variant of the ink series MGA NATURA and various water-based coatings of the ACRYLAC series with the gold level of its Material Health Certifications. Thereby, the institute confirms that the inks and coatings do not contain any substances which pose a high risk to humans or the environment (i.e. none x-assessed or unknown chemicals).
Josef Sutter, Product Manager Sheetfed/UV Europe at hubergroup, says: “The sustainability of printed products has been in the focus of our research activities for a long time. We want to offer our customers environmentally friendly products and thereby help to make their products ready for the circular economy. Consequently, it was important for us to provide them with a complete portfolio certified Cradle to Cradle Gold for both commercial and packaging offset printing.”

Defining own environmental standards 

In addition to that, hubergroup ensures its customers high environmental standards throughout the value chain. This is possible as the majority of raw materials originates in the company’s own Chemicals Division. Josef Sutter elaborates: “We know that we bear a great responsibility as printing ink manufacturer and want to live up to it. Taking a holistic view of sustainability, it is important to us that we meet high standards throughout the value chain – beginning with the raw material production.”
 

Diabetes patients depending on lifelong insulin treatment have to administer the vital medication to themselves using insulin pumps, syringes or pens. Ypsomed offers UnoPen™, a disposable pen with variable dose setting, for this and other multidose therapies. Schreiner MediPharm has developed an NFC-Label for this injection aid that serves as a communication interface between the injector and the SmartPilot™—an electronic pen add-on. The resulting smart device interactively supports patients in using the pen and helps them adhere to their therapy plans.

Schreiner MediPharm designed the label with an integrated NFC chip precisely for the combination of the UnoPen™ and the SmartPilot™. With the NFC-Label, the drug can automatically be identified, authenticated and checked in terms of its expiration date. Due to the smart device, the time and date of the injection as well as the delivered dose are tracked and transmitted to the patient’s related smartphone app via Bluetooth. Patients are interactively guided through the injection process, assisted in correctly using the pen in real time or informed about inconsistencies—for instance, in the event of deviations from the therapy plan or accidental attempts to inject themselves twice. Also integrated is a temperature monitoring feature that issues a warning in case the pen was exposed to critical temperatures while being used or stored. Sensor technology installed in the SmartPilot™ that digitally connects the UnoPen™ enables this function. It is activated by simply attaching the smart device to the pen without covering the cap, the dose scaling mechanism and the button that triggers the injection. The device remains on the pen throughout the injection process.  

Schreiner MediPharm and Ypsomed were development partners already in the SmartPilot™ application project for the YpsoMate® autoinjector: “We selected Schreiner MediPharm as cooperation partner again to offer pharma customers an optimal combination of connected device and smart NFC-Label,” says Andreas Schneider, Innovation & Business Development Director at Ypsomed. The narrow radius of the pen and the small tolerances of the attached device posed particular challenges this time. Another key objective was automated processing, because the label-integrated NFC chip has to reliably function from production through to use by the patient. Schreiner MediPharm utilizes a special design ensuring end-to-end functionality.

About Schreiner MediPharm

Schreiner MediPharm, a business unit of Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG based in Oberschleissheim near Munich, is a leading developer and manufacturer of innovative, multifunctional specialty labels and marking solutions with value-added benefits for the healthcare industry. Thanks to its strong solutions expertise and specialized know-how Schreiner MediPharm is a highly capable development partner and reliable quality supplier to leading pharmaceutical and medical device technology companies worldwide.

About Ypsomed

Ypsomed headquartered in Burgdorf (Switzerland) is a leading developer and manufacturer of injection and infusion systems for self-medication and a specialist in diabetes care. The company is a partner of pharmaceutical and biotech companies for pens, autoinjectors and pump systems for the delivery of liquid medications. Ypsomed has around 1,700 employees worldwide.

 

For more information, please contact:

Andrea Richter, Product Communications
Phone +49 89 31584-5674, andrea.richter[at]schreiner-group.com

Schreiner MediPharm,
a business unit of
Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
Bruckmannring 22
85764 Oberschleissheim
Germany
Fax +49 89 31584-5422

Tetra Pak today announces it is ready to deploy its portfolio of tethered cap solutions. The portfolio brings numerous benefits to food and beverage manufacturers and consumers, as the company builds on its vision of the most sustainable food package. These benefits include minimising litter, as the cap will stay attached to the package. The carbon footprint can also be reduced because the company’s tethered caps are planned to become available as a plant-based option, therefore increasing the renewable content of the package.
In tandem, the company is accelerating the expansion of its paper straws offering to ensure further renewable and low carbon materials across the range of packaging solutions. The aim of this is to address a broad range of customer sustainability needs without compromising on food safety, while still delivering on the end-user drinking experience.
Lars Holmquist, Executive Vice President Packaging Solutions and Commercial Operations, Tetra Pak, says: “These are key milestones in our journey towards the world’s most sustainable food package: a carton that is fully made from renewable or recycled materials, is fully recyclable and carbon-neutral. We consistently strive to deliver products and services that adds value to food and people while protecting the planet. Our promise, ‘PROTECTS WHAT’S GOOD™,’ allied with this strong purpose means we are providing customers with innovative products that also meet the rapidly changing demands of society.”

Tetra Pak’s tethered caps and paper straws developments mark the latest additions to its range of responsible end-to-end solutions, allowing manufacturers to achieve their ambitions in three essential areas – food safety, food waste and the environment - simultaneously.

Holmquist continues: "Approximately 32% of all plastic packaging is not collected and plastic can take hundreds of years to degrade[1]. We focus on recycling by design, committing to invest approximately €100 million per year over the next 5-10 years to develop more sustainable packaging solutions. This includes alternatives to replace fossil-based plastics and avoid littering, as well as maximising the use of renewable, responsibly sourced materials in our packages. Addressing people’s needs for recycling is a critical component for not only becoming more sustainable but making food more available and safer for all consumers.”

These steps are also central to ensuring that Tetra Pak’s customers in Europe will be ready to comply with the Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive, an integral part of the wider approach announced in the Plastics Strategy and an important element of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan[2].

With this in mind, Tetra Pak has accelerated innovation in the caps domain. Holmquist adds: “The significant challenge of deploying tethered caps is the scale of the change that this brings across the value chain. If we look at Europe alone, more than 1,000 packaging lines supplied by us will be potentially transformed, translating into over 20 billion packages which are expected to be converted. All of that in three years, while minimising impact on our customers’ operations, optimising the consumer experience and contributing to both minimising litter and creating a carton package with increased plant-based and recycled content.”

Tetra Pak is progressing on this complex journey by working seamlessly across various project streams. Overall, this covers approximately 40 different packages with tethered caps. Those caps are all planned to become available as a plant-based option. The first one to be released on the market is the HeliCap™ 26 Pro closure. This product features a new screw and flip concept with a self-locking hinge, securing food protection while providing convenience for in-home consumption. Its opening and closing mechanism has proven popular with consumers, demonstrating that the solution is delivering further benefits in addition to meeting legislative requirements[3].

Holmquist concludes: “We won’t stop here. We are continuously innovating our sustainable openings offering. We envision a world where carton packages never become waste and where every carton is collected and recycled.”

[1] Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation, https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
[2] Main objective of Directive 2019/904 is the prevention and reduction of marine litter from single-use plastic items. The implementation of this directive into EU member states’ national legislation will lead to a ban of selected products from the market, whenever affordable alternatives are available, among other measures. While bans on plastic straws will come into force by July 2021, EU-based beverage producers, retailers and manufacturers, as well as importers, are obliged to implement tethered caps and lids - designed to remain attached to containers - by July 2024.
[3] Source: consumer research conducted in Spain, Italy and Poland in November 2019, with 300 consumers through face to face interviews, focussed on HeliCap™ 26 Pro opening on Tetra Prisma® Aseptic 1000 Square package.

Innovia Films is launching a new film in its Encore range of Sustainable Polypropylene packaging films.  REF30cn has a high level of certified renewable content (via ISCC PLUS mass balance) specifically achieving carbon neutral on a cradle to gate basis from the Innovia UK site.  Technically the film performance matches that of the fossil-based equivalent so can be used in both high-speed horizontal flow-wrap and overwrap applications.  The film is also fully food contact compliant.

Paul Watters, Product Development Manager Packaging, Innovia Films explains “With a growing focus on carbon footprint and a desire to reduce the impact on our environment through global warming, we are introducing Encore REF30cn into the market.  This film addresses these issues by having a high certified renewable content which in turn reduces the films carbon footprint to the position of being carbon neutral.”

Watters continued “REF30cn will be the first of a number of Encore products we will bring to the market.  The focus will not only be on certified renewable materials and carbon footprint but also on the use of certified recycled materials.”

REF30cn has been classified as Made for Recycling by Interseroh.  Paul Watters, explains “The Interseroh certification further enhances the sustainable benefits of this film, it can be classified as ‘recycle ready’, or recyclable in countries which have the infrastructure to recycle polypropylene.”

If you want more information or to trial this new film for your products, then contact packaging@innoviafilms.com

For further information contact:

Patricia Potts, Global Communications Manager / Charlotte Robinson, Communications Coordinator

Innovia Films Ltd, Lowther R&D Centre, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 9XX, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 16973 42281   Fax: +44 (0) 16973 41452 

Email: patricia.potts@innoviafilms.com

www.linkedin.com/company/innovia-films

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www.innoviafilms.com

Innovia Films is a major producer of highly differentiated speciality Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) films using proprietary ‘Bubble’, Stenter Technology and Cast manufacturing processes. 

The company holds a leading global position in the markets for high performance coated films, tobacco overwrap, labels and security films.  Innovia employs >1400 people worldwide and has production sites in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Poland and the UK.  The company is focused on high quality value added products, strong customer relationship, R&D and excellent service.

At the forefront of packaging design in the financial sector, Burgopak share studio secrets on card packaging design featuring top challengers and neobanks.

It’s gorgeous, edgy, and chock full of inspiration.”

— Aaron Singer, CEO Tearsheet

LONDON, UK, UK, April 1, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ --

FinTech’s are winning new customers by putting people at the centre of their brands. As generations, older and younger change the way they bank, and communities search for more diverse and inclusive banking solutions, those listening and innovating in their product delivery are harnessing an opportunity to break away from the traditional and create challenger products making waves across a very traditional industry. In turn, a people centred approach is also building a community of organic brand ambassadors taking to social platforms and word-of-mouth to share enthusiasm and excitement for this new empowering movement.

At the forefront of packaging design in the financial sector, Burgopak share studio secrets for the first time including practical insights and creative inspiration on the power of packaging for card and financial services. The title ‘Welcome to the club’ encapsulates the voice behind every card delivery and the power that your carrier holds when it reaches customer hands.

Featuring leading challengers and financial providers, the book explores the relationship between brand and packaging, practical steps for unboxing design, increasing product activation with clever packaging integrations, and practical tools to drive down costs with smart design and cardboard engineering.

“It’s gorgeous, edgy, and chock full of inspiration.” Aaron Singer, CEO Tearsheet

Committed to good environmental practice, the limited print book was beautifully bound by Feburman printers. Feburman have been awarded the Carbon Smart Blue Award in recognition of their commitment to the environment by measuring carbon emissions and putting in place action plans and policy to reduce impact.

“Choosing a printer that met our environmental aspirations was integral to the release of our first book. Acknowledging both the tactile nature of cards and packaging, and the sustainable innovations rising up in the financial sector was essential and we feel like the book hits both points very nicely.” Dane Whitehurst, Creative Director, Burgopak

Produced on FSC approved materials, the pages are printed on Zen paper 150gsm, with a white Plike 330gsm cover and perfect bound spine. This tactile premium board – an already popular choice among many of Burgopak’s existing fintech clients - reflects the nature of the changing face of finance. The texture and appearance acts as a familiar nod to those clients as well as inspiration to the many start-ups entering this competitive field. Complimented with a subtle silver pantone to the title ‘Welcome to the club’, this addition also adds a level of luxury that speaks to the metal movement so popular in this sector.

“I always keep an eye out for nice card designs since it’s an important part, and only physical part of marketing of fully digital players. The packing is just as important to impress your clients, and Burgopak stands out in these designs. The book summarizes some great designs. Loved reading it and good for inspiration for every Fintech/Neobank!” Marcel van Oost, Fintech Influencer

If you’d like to request a copy of ‘Welcome to the Club’ by Burgopak, or learn more about Burgopak packaging you can reach out at info@burgopak.com. Also available in digital form, you can request your e-book here.

Alethea Price
Burgopak
+44 20 7089 1950
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Addition of family-owned business strengthens Italian operations

MILAN (March 30, 2021) - Berlin Packaging, the world’s largest hybrid packaging supplier, announced today the acquisition of Glass Line, a Savona, Italy based supplier of glass and metal packaging specializing in the food and beverage end-markets.
Born from the passion of the Berruti and Loda families, Glass Line has forged strong customer relationships and has significant expertise in the wine and olive oil markets. The company is co-led by Umberto Berruti and Patrizia Zoppi and has an established presence across Northwest Italy, including two warehouses in Liguria.
“Glass Line is an extraordinary company that not only shares Berlin’s focus on quality and service, but also delights in serving its customers. As we continue to expand our presence in Northwest Italy, we are better able to serve packaging customers of all sizes and across all industries in this region,” said Paolo Recrosio, CEO of Berlin Packaging Europe.
“Our family has built Glass Line over many years, and we were very deliberate in selecting a partner to help us accelerate our business,” said Umberto Berruti, co-leader of Glass Line. “This combination with Berlin allows the best flow of ideas, innovations, and talent across Glass Line for the benefit of our employees, customers, and suppliers,” added Patrizia Zoppi, co-leader of Glass Line.
This is Berlin Packaging’s thirteenth acquisition in Europe since 2016, confirming the company’s strong commitment to offering packaging solutions in all segments of the European market.
“We have successfully partnered with many family-owned businesses during our European expansion and appreciate the trust and confidence Glass Line has placed in us,” said Bill Hayes, CEO and President of Berlin Packaging.
All Glass Line employees and locations will be retained, and Glass Line’s leadership, including Umberto Berruti and Patrizia Zoppi, will continue in the same capacity.

Berlin Packaging

Berlin Packaging is the world’s largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier® of glass, plastic, and metal containers and closures. The company supplies billions of items annually along with package design, financing, consulting, warehousing, and logistics services for customers across all
industries. Berlin Packaging brings together the best of manufacturing, distribution, and income-adding service providers. Its mission is to increase the net income of its customers through packaging products and services.
See BerlinPackaging.com for more information.
 

About Bruni Glass, a Berlin Packaging Company

Bruni Glass, the largest packaging distributor in Europe, has 40+ years’ experience supplying premium and specialty glass packaging to the wine, spirits, food, and gourmet markets. Headquartered in Italy and with locations across Europe, Bruni offers thousands of custom-designed products along with popular standard items. The company has a world-class design studio, a network of high-quality manufacturing partners, a team dedicated to thrilling service, and is certified by CISQ-IMQ (Italian Institute for the Quality Mark) to ISO 9001 standards.
See BruniGlass.com for more information.
For more information:
Press Office – Omnicom PR Group Italy
Barbara Papini, barbara.papini@omnicomprgroup.com, +335 6113555 Ilaria Sala, ilaria.sala@omnicomprgroup.com, +39 335 8112968
Berlin Packaging Elena Franzetti, Elena.Franzetti@BruniGlass.com, +39 02 48436611, +39 3401204145 Julie Saltzman, Julie.Saltzman@BerlinPackaging.com, +1 312 869 7554 for North America

Performance partnership pays dividends
Heidelberg delivers on performance promise with permanently high machine availability, short servicing times, and quick makeready times
Overall equipment efficiency of Speedmaster XL 106 at Gütersloh site increases to 56 percent after one year

Just over a year ago, the Bertelsmann Printing Group (BPG) decided on a subscription contract with Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) for its two sites – Mohn Media in Gütersloh, near Bielefeld, and Vogel Druck in Höchberg, near Würzburg (see press release dated December 12, 2019). That makes it time for an initial review. The performance partnership – under which Heidelberg is responsible for the performance and availability of the newly installed presses over the next five years – was and still is a key factor for BPG. The Subscription Smart contract applying at both sites includes all service operations and a vendor-managed inventory component that covers the inventory management of selected wear parts and consumables on BPG’s behalf.

“As we see it, our very high expectations have been met in full. The cooperation was exactly as envisaged and Heidelberg has really delivered,” emphasizes Roland Witte, Production and Technology Manager at Mohn Media. “The figures speak for themselves and we’re looking to systematically continue this approach. As a next step, I can imagine further expanding the successful partnership,” he adds.

Matthias Hartung
Public Relations Officer, Media Relations
Tel.: +49 (0)6222 82 67174
Fax.: +49 (0)6222 82 9967174

Oberschleissheim, March 22, 2021 – When Schreiner Group’s Chinese production site opened its gates for the grand opening billed as "Inspired by Tradition – Built for Innovation," an extensive planning process had preceded the event. For the medium-sized family business based in Oberschleissheim near Munich, opening a Chinese location proved to be a positive venture that paid off. Now, the manufacturing facility in the Shanghai metro area is celebrating its fifth anniversary—and the future has already been planned. 

“Sustainable quality is one of our major competitive advantages in China,” says Thomas Köberlein, President of the Schreiner ProTech business unit. “We attach utmost importance to ensuring that our Chinese plant meets the same standards and high level as our sites in Germany. The site operates with identical high-tech machines and the quality requirements to be met by the employees as well as the processes and results are the same as the ones here. Our customers highly appreciate this.” Five years ago, only products from Schreiner ProTech, mainly for the automotive sector, were produced in Fengpu. Since then, not only has Schreiner ProTech’s product portfolio been extended there in recent years, but the Schreiner MediPharm business unit manufactures products for the pharmaceutical industry at the Chinese site as well.  

Schreiner Group is generally pursuing further growth in China and will increase the number of products to be manufactured there in the coming years. Going forward, product development, which has been residing at the company’s headquarters in Oberschleissheim so far, will be performed directly at the Chinese site as well. For CEO Roland Schreiner, these are great prospects: “The site in Shanghai has seen a tremendous development in recent years and I am convinced that we have set the course for a successful future of Schreiner Group in China. As a supplier, this makes us an attractive partner for our global customers because we provide them with higher delivery reliability and support the success of their internationalization as a result of our local presence.”  

Schreiner Group marked a major milestone as far back as in 2019 when the Chinese site achieved the break-even point just three years following its launch. A lot has happened in the area of human resources as well. “While production operations began with six Chinese and six German employees in 2016, we are employing 24 people in Shanghai today and almost all of them are Chinese,” says Jamie Long, General Manager of Schreiner Group Ltd. China. 

About Schreiner Group
Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG is an internationally active German family-owned company and regarded as a preferred partner in the Healthcare and Mobility markets. Its core business is focused on top-quality functional labels enhanced by complementary system solutions and services. Schreiner Group’s innovative high-tech labels and functional parts create new dimensions for smart solutions and help make life healthier and safer, and enhance human mobility. 

More than 1,200 employees generate total annual sales of about 190 million euros. The high-tech company has four locations: In addition to the headquarters in Oberschleissheim and another production site in the Munich metropolitan region (Dorfen), they include the two international manufacturing facilities in the United States (Blauvelt, New York) and in China (Fengpu, Shanghai). 

Collaboration and exchange are shaped by the core values of Innovation, Quality, Performance and Enthusiasm. Schreiner Group defines itself as a company committed to acting sustainably and therefore deliberately assumes responsibility for people, the environment and society.

For more information, please contact:

Susanne Höppner   
Corporate Communications
susanne.hoeppner@schreiner-group.com
+49 89 31584-5852

Sanitizer bottles have been a part of our everyday lives since spring 2020 due to COVID 19 – whether used at home to keep family members safe, for trips out, for day-to-day work, or for professional and medical applications. As a result, Greiner Packaging has now expanded its range of bottles to meet the increased demand. 

• New range includes 16 bottles, including for sanitizers 
• Wide assortment of customizable bottles 
• Can be made from up to 100 percent r-PET 
• Food-grade approval 
• Different sizes and shapes with capacity ranging between 100 and 1000 milliliters • Various closure options based on standard 28/410 neck 

Kremsmünster, Austria, March 2021. Never before have such a large number of sanitizer bottles been produced and supplied. Greiner Packaging has taken note of this increased demand and developed a new plastic bottle range including 16 different bottles that can be used for sanitizers. An even wider array of bottle models means more choice so that people can find the solution with the right form and function for the application at hand.

 The new bottles – all produced using the ISBM process – have round bodies, can be made from up to 100 percent PET if desired, and are custom-decorated at the customer’s end. Greiner Packaging’s new bottle range is suitable for sanitizers as well as other chemical and liquid products. In addition, the bottles also have food-grade approval, allowing them to be filled with items such as syrup or sauces. “This expansion of our PET bottle range allows us to meet the increasing level of demand and individual requirements of our customers in the chemicals, cosmetics, and food product segments. We can supply these bottles made from up to 100 percent r-PET, which underscores our sustainable thinking and our approach aimed at achieving a well-functioning circular economy,” explains Marcus Hinterberger, sales director at Greiner Packaging.

 Wide assortment of customizable bottles 
Whether used for chemical, cosmetics, or liquid food products, the new (r-)PET bottle range consists of bottles of various sizes, with their capacity ranging from 100 to 1,000 milliliters. The bottles are based on a round body shape, with a shoulder shape that can either be equally round or square. All the bottles are manufactured at Greiner Packaging using injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) production technology and have the standard 28/410 neck, which is compatible with all caps and closure systems widely available on the market. Customers can also request transparent bottle samples made of virgin PET. Starting from a certain order quantity, any color design can be applied at Greiner Packaging’s production facility and supplied to the customer. Alternatively, customers can procure their own custom decorations in the form of labels or sleeves. In these cases, the decoration is to be applied independently at the customer’s end.

Food and nonfood applications 
The new PET bottle range was specially developed for sanitizers and other products in the chemicals and cosmetics sectors. Plus, the bottles have food-grade approval for additional applications in the food industry. “Our updated bottle lineup demonstrates that we can react quickly and flexibly to new market needs. By offering a modular product range, we can also quickly come up with the right answer or the right product for other markets, as well as the specifications or recycling requirements they entail,” adds Marcus Hinterberger, sales director at Greiner Packaging. 

Packaging facts: 
• Production technology: ISBM  
• Decoration: Colored at factory, labels or sleeves also possible alternatives • Material: PET or up to 100 percent r- PET 
• Closures: Various widely available versions possible 

About Greiner Packaging 
Greiner Packaging is a leading European manufacturer of plastic packaging in the food and nonfood sectors. The company has enjoyed a reputation for outstanding solutions expertise in the fields of development, design, production, and decoration for over 60 years. Greiner Packaging responds to the challenges of the market with two business units: Packaging and Assistec. While the Packaging unit stands for innovative packaging solutions, the Assistec unit focuses on producing custom-made technical parts. Greiner Packaging employs a workforce of around 5,000 at more than 30 locations in 19 countries around the world. In 2019, the company generated annual sales revenues of €690 million (including joint ventures), which represents more than 40 percent of Greiner’s total sales.

Please direct any questions to: 
Roland Kaiblinger I Account Executive 
SPS MARKETING GmbH | B 2 Businessclass | Linz, Stuttgart 
Jaxstrasse 2–4, 4020 Linz, Austria 
Tel.: +43 (0) 732 60 50 38-29 
E-mail: r.kaiblinger@sps-marketing.com 
www.sps-marketing.com

Company’s G7 Process Control Master Certification exemplifies its commitment to quality and consistency in commercial print and packaging.

Camden, NJ – Rondo-Pak, LLC/Contemporary Graphic Solutions, a leading provider of printed components and quality folding cartons for the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer industries, is pleased to announce it has earned Ideallance G7 Process Control Master Facility certification for the tenth year in a row. Rondo-Pak/CGS is the first and longest standing company on a list of currently only seven in the U.S. with this certification, solidifying it as a proven supply chain leader, with demonstrated capabilities across color management, process and quality control. G7 Process Control Masters are equipped to handle the most stringent demands and maintain the highest level of quality required by leading print and secondary packaging buyers.

The certification process includes thorough analysis and alignment of the entire print supply chain within the Rondo-Pak/CGS facilities, as well as its print supply chain partners. This assessment is conducted by a G7 Process Control Expert and evaluated quarterly by an independent third-party analysis laboratory. Certification is valid for one year and includes quarterly maintenance to ensure ongoing compliance and the highest levels of performance.

In addition, this certification is granted in three distinct compliance levels, the highest and most stringent of which is G7 Colorspace. Rondo-Pak/CGS is proud to have achieved the level of G7 Master Qualification with Colorspace compliance, demonstrating that the facility has calibrated all presses, pre-press equipment and systems to G7 gray balance and neutral tone curves and can deliver G7 proofs and print products, while maintaining extremely tight tolerances throughout the whole color space.

Rondo-Pak/CGS is capable of meeting the highest quality levels set by Ideallance through utilizing spectrophotometry to keep its color standards within a max Delta E of 2. In addition to offset presses, the company offers digital printing, which allows for the use of a specific mixture of Pantone inks for the most precise color match on the market.

“Ideallance G7 certifications set the standard for our industry when it comes to consistency and quality control,” said Bob Reilley, President and COO of Rondo-Pak/CGS. “Our ability to meet their stringent guidelines year after year highlights our deep commitment to exceeding our customers’ expectations by delivering high-quality printed materials with maximum efficiency.”
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About Rondo-Pak
Rondo-Pak/Contemporary Graphic Solutions is a global print and packaging specialist whose unique blend of capabilities and forward thinking yields present-day solutions for tomorrow’s challenges. Strategically aligned with Körber Pharma to link packaging equipment, materials, and software, Rondo-Pak provides a comprehensive assortment of marketing and packaging solutions to address challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry, including global brand management, packaging efficiency, and supply chain optimization.

In combination with a wide range of printed materials such as inserts, leaflets, medication guides and regulated marketing materials, Rondo-Pak’s packaging innovations address precise requirements for compliance, child resistance, anti-counterfeiting, e-pedigree and more. For more information, visit www.rondopak.com.

client:    Rondo-Pak, LLC

contact:    Christopher Dale
    Turchette Agency
    (973) 227-8080, ext. 116
    cdale@turchette.com

    Rondo-Pak/Contemporary Graphic Solutions, LLC
    (800) 575-4238
    info@rondopak.com