Welcoming news for manufacturers of fresh food and sensitive products looking for safe and sustainable packaging solutions. Schur Flexibles extends its sustainable packaging portfolio of PE solutions for almost every application
The future of packaging lies within a circular economy. Polyethylene packaging solutions will play a key role in this future, as the recyclers favour mono-material over multi-material flexible packaging and PE features a European wide recyclability. Therefore, PE solutions have become a preferred choice but also lead to a range of challenges such as processing high barrier PE material on high-end machines. Future-oriented thinking has led the Schur Flexibles sustainability department to be ahead of the game on developments in sustainable packaging. Intensive research and development as part of the “rethink” campaign, in conjunction with the 5R principles (see below), has led the team to develop a range of high barrier PE packaging. These innovative packaging solutions meet the demands of sensitive fresh food while not making any compromises in terms of puncture resistance, high barrier functions and machinability, as well as being in compliance with local guidelines and regulations.