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TotalEnergies
and COLINES® announce the successful proof of concept of an Unlaminated
Recyclable Stand-Up Pouch suitable for food-contact applications.
Currently
the market reference is composed of a multimaterial film, resulting to
non-recyclable packaging. The partners have developed a full PE recyclable
Unlaminated Stand-Up Pouch, allowing to decrease the packaging thickness. The
Machine Direction Orientation (MDO) film has been produced on the COLINES®
cast line Polycast as well as the MDO line, allowing asymmetrical structure
(low density sealing layer on one side, high density stiff layer on the other
side). The MDO-PE film formulation is composed of TotalEnergies Supertough®
and unique Lumicene® high density PE, offering a vast thickness range of
solutions fitting customer’s needs.
The
game changer film has been printed by Cirepa, a printing company for flexible
packaging, and then transformed into a Stand-Up Pouch by Dry-Top, a packaging
company.
This
project, as well as other Stand-Up Pouch projects that TotalEnergies is
working on, will be detailed during the upcoming AMI Plastic Pouch seminar
that will take place in Barcelona, from the 20th of March.
“This collaboration is in line with the recent
developments to provide packaging solutions that are fully mechanically
recyclable, with the end goal to bring more qualitative feedstock on the
market. This latter could be used as feedstock for the recycling industry and
eventually end up as RE:use polymers, part of the RE:clic range supporting
our ambition of producing 30% circular polymers by 2030. This development was
made possible by our broad Lumicene® and Supertough® product range bringing
outstanding processability as well as excellent mechanical and optical
properties”. said Olivier Greiner, Vice President, Polymers
Europe & Orient at TotalEnergies.
“We
are proud to be part of this very important project, made possible also by
the proprietary COLINES® technology in the field of MDO, as well as by
innovative and patented solutions for the production of MDO-PE films with
cast technology. Our portfolio includes various solutions for the production
of “green” films, with a high recycled content or suitable for complete
recycling, in order to satisfy practically all market requests".
said Nicola Lombardini, R&D Manager of Colines.
Anthony Michael Caprioli
CEO
& Commercial Director
Gabriele Peccetti
Marketing
and Communication Director
Sales
Area Manager
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