UPM Specialty Papers has collaborated with Unipaco to create a recyclable, heat sealable salad and herb pot wrapper, said to guarantee product safety and meet German 95/5 mono-material requirements, with single-component materials accounting for 95% of the packaging mass.
UPM says the partnership resulted in two versions of packaging that combine UPM papers and Unipaco coatings. The first is based on barrier base paper UPM Solide Lucent 78 g/m2 with a 4 g/m2 PE coating, apparently well suited to coating and lamination and providing a ‘superior surface’ for further converting and printing, including rotogravure.
The second version pairs UPM FlexPack 80 g/m2 with a 4 g/m2 PE coating. UPM’s coated one side UPM FlexPack papers are designed for a range of lamination processes and reportedly offer strength and high-quality print results, especially on flexo printing. Both versions have a thin and heat sealable 4 g/m2 PE layer said to guarantee heat-sealability and the correct level of moisture resistance.
“With growing demand for recyclable materials, we decided to focus on lowering the grammage of our coating to develop a unique product. Our goal was to create as thin a coating as possible while also maintaining quality, barrier properties, and heat sealability. This solution is available on many other papers and for a numerous end-uses such as meat and cheese wrapping, flexible packaging and even sack production,” said Aleksander Borysow, CEO and chairmen of the board at Unipaco.
UPM states the fibre-based wrapper is safe for food contact and compliant with recyclability requirements. The wrapper is due to be displayed at UPM Specialty Papers’ stand 241, Hall 3A at FACHPACK in Nuremburg, Germany, September 24th-26th and at PACK EXPO in Chicago, USA, at stand W-21110 in the Containers and Materials Pavilion, November 3rd-6th.
In similar news, CLUBZERØ and Barclays partnered to serve ice cream in returnable pots at this year’s Wimbledon Championships, hoping to cut down on single-use waste as attendees waited to enter the Grounds. Provided in the Game, Seat, Match Area, the pots were designed in-house to withstand temperature and remain durable.
Food producer Symington’s recently moved its Oatburst instant porridge brand to Greiner Packaging’s K3 r100 self-separating, designed-for-recycling solution. The K3 cardboard-plastic cup features a tear-tab so that consumers can separate the cardboard outer wrap from the lightweight plastic cup.
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