TotalEnergies and COLINES have collaborated to create an Unlaminated Recyclable Stand-Up Pouch. (Courtesy of TotalEnergies)
TotalEnergies and COLINES last week announced the successful proof of concept of an Unlaminated Recyclable Stand-Up Pouch suitable for food contact applications. Recycling Bags For Cans And Bottles
Currently the market reference is composed of a multi-material film, resulting in non-recyclable packaging. The partners have developed a full-PE recyclable Unlaminated Stand-Up Pouch, allowing for a reduction of 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 (a low-density sealing layer on one side, a 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 customers’ needs.
The game-changing film has been printed by Cirepa, a printing company for flexible packaging, and then transformed into a Stand-Up Pouch by packaging company Dry-Top.
Olivier Greiner, Vice President, Polymers Europe & Orient at TotalEnergies, said, “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.”
Nicola Lombardini, R&D Manager of COLINES, said, “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."
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