Interpack 2011 visitors will be the first to experience Flairfresh – the innovative dispensing solution for washroom hygiene products that offers operational efficiency and sustainability benefits. Flairfresh is the first application using Afa’s Flair technology platform that will be launched in the market.
New market trends and consumers’expectations require constant adaptations of bottle designs and shapes. Based on its strong expertise in plastics packaging solutions, Sidel offers a variety of bottle and multipack designs that fulfil today’s key packaging requirements.
High-clarity polypropylene dosage caps being launched this month at Interpack benefit from the optic- and process-enhancing properties of Milliken’s next-generation clarifying agent Millad NX 8000.
At interpack 2011, MAUSER Group, highlights the latest developments of its Sustainability Program.
Major breakthrough for the environment: less CO2, higher content of renewable raw material in aseptic packaging.
Priplak Supercristal was the benchmark grade of gloss clear polypropylene for over five years. It's now evolved into New Supercristal + and the bar has been raised again.
There is constant pressure to lower the production costs of mass-produced goods such as beverage closures. The beverage closure PCO 1881 is shown as an example of how, besides weight reduction, measures concerning the injection moulding machine can lead to more economically efficient manufacturing.
BASF offers packaging industry innovative barrier solutions against mineral oil residues.
Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of rigid plastic packaging, has solidified the use of lightweight polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for single-serve, 187-ml wine products.
RPC Containers Oakham has supplied a plastic pail incorporating 25% polypropylene recyclate for a new paint being trialled by B&Q that is manufactured entirely from waste emulsion.
APPE (Artenius PET Packaging Europe) is the first leading PET producer to gain the BRC/IOP Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging Materials across all of its European plants, underlining its commitment to safeguarding quality in the food industry.
Plain and functional – these days for packaging are gone. Because next to the primary task of "product protection", sales psychology is the focus today: More and more, marketing experts are using packaging as a promotional tool and a communication instrument, because an attractive eye-catcher strongly influences consumer behaviour.
