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Recently, global fast-moving consumer goods giants Unilever, Nestlé, Pepsi, Mondelez and Mars have jointly launched a 1 million pounds "Flexible Plastic Fund" (Flexible Plastic Fund). The fund calls on more flexible packaging manufacturers, retailers and recyclers to cooperate to jointly promote the UK flexible packaging recycling market. By increasing the current flexible packaging recycling efforts, it will increase the market supply of recycled materials, reduce plastic pollution, and promote the industry. Circular economy.

According to the "Future of Global Flexible Packaging by 2026" report released by Smithers, it is estimated that by 2021, the global consumption of flexible packaging will reach 31.5 million tons. It is estimated that by 2026, the global market will grow at an average annual rate of 3.4%, reaching 37.5 million tons. Compared with rigid packaging, flexible packaging has many advantages, including better protection of internal items, reduced resources, reduced packaging weight, and reduced costs. In addition, as personalization has become the norm, packaging design solutions have become increasingly important. Let's take a look at what new soft bags are worth learning from!

The first recyclable flexible cooking bag for pet food

Nestlé and Amcor have jointly created a recyclable packaging, starting with wet cat food, it will increase the environmental footprint of consumer packaging by as much as 60%.

AmLite HeatFlex Recyclable Bags-Amcor, the world's leading flexible packaging leader, collaborated with Nestlé to launch the world's first recyclable soft sterilization bag. Using Amcor's AmLite HeatFlex recyclable bag solution, the new high-barrier performance bag has been unveiled for the first time in a Dutch store in October 2020.

The new cooking bag is a polypropylene (PP) bag that uses an ultra-thin AmLite transparent barrier coating to protect the product. It has high barrier properties and can withstand high temperatures, replacing the traditional PET/AL/OPP packaging structure and reducing carbon emissions by 60%.

Recyclable dishwashing tablet packaging

Global consumer goods giant Unilever worked with Amcor to develop a new recyclable e-commerce packaging dedicated to the brand's dishwashing tablets to accelerate its sustainable development and e-commerce process. This packaging has been successfully launched on the European market and applied to two major dishwashing tablet brands: Sun All-in-1, which is suitable for Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands and Portugal; Svelto is for the Italian market.

Mengniu double-layer environmentally friendly yogurt cover film

Thinning, but not reducing quality

Recently, Mengniu has integrated its industrial ecological power, united with plastic raw material suppliers, packaging manufacturers, recycling and recyclers and other parties in the industrial chain to realize the recycling and utilization of plastic packaging for the first time in the domestic food industry, fully applying post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR) as a After all the packaging films for the products are switched to use, it is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 300 tons per year, reducing resource waste and carbon emissions on a large scale, and contributing to the promotion of circular economy and the protection of the ecological environment.

Mengniu insists on adhering to the 5R principle, and the key research directions in environmental packaging include: how to reduce food waste through packaging, achieve packaging lightweight, packaging recycling, packaging degradable and recyclable, and so on.

Hangzhou Metro

Processing and degrading packaging materials with distiller's grain protein

Hangzhou Metelo New Material Technology Co., Ltd. has recently achieved a technological breakthrough in the field of degradable packaging materials, by extracting soft protein from distiller’s grains and mixing fibers to make degradable packaging. This material has lower production cost and shorter degradation cycle than PBAT and PLA. It is currently applying for a patent. Mettro has reached a strategic cooperation with Budweiser (China) in the supply of raw materials. It is expected to reach industrialization in 2024 and is expected to reduce the production cost per ton to about 10,000 yuan.

Glenroy flexible packaging

Launched a series of sustainable packaging product portfolios

Glenroy, a US-based flexible packaging expert, has launched a "Sustainable Packaging Product Portfolio" to help brand owners in the food, pharmaceutical, pet food, health food, personal care and household product industries achieve sustainable development goals and solve the global waste problem.

Glenroy's sustainable packaging product portfolio uses recyclable film composite bags, such as post-consumer recyclable (PCR) film composite bags that meet the requirements of the How2Recycle store off-shelf labeling program. The film recovery rate is as high as 53%, and the use of post-consumer recyclables An environmentally friendly stand-up bag made of plastic, with a recyclable content of up to 48%.

Maybelline FitMe® Matte

+Non-porous foundation packaging bag

Maybelline’s FitMe® Matte+Poreless conceived a new solution for e-commerce packaging, using it with traditional hard glass bottles. The package is a travel bag with a smaller shape and a stronger function, which is suitable for e-commerce retail.

This flexible spray belt is flatter and has a 90% reduction in packaging compared to current glass bottles, which allows more products to be shipped during transportation.

GripTop non-slip bag

Flexinnova kft cooperated with Foltrade kft to develop GripTop non-slip bags.

GripTop anti-slip bags have high anti-slip properties, and there are micro-protrusions on the surface for anti-skid. These micro-protrusions can ensure that the GripTop bags will not slip on each other in the stack. The friction coefficient of traditional film bags is between 0.20 and 0.35, while the friction coefficient of stacked GripTop bags is higher than 0.6. GripTop bags can maintain their anti-slip properties no matter in dusty or humid conditions. In addition, the protruding material on the surface of the GripTop bag is fully compatible with polyethylene, and the GripTop bag is a fully recyclable polyethylene bag.

The future evolution trend of bottled water: soft-bag water

The future evolution trend of bottled water, disposable bagged water packaged in soft bags has attracted the attention and attention of all packaged water companies in the industry through this epidemic. At present, the technology of bagged water production is relatively mature, and it is likely to become the future. Mainstream products for household drinking water. Many packaging water companies have expressed to the bagged water industry platform that they will comply with market consumer demand and add new production of disposable bagged water to meet the consumption needs of different households. Visionary water companies have begun to seize the opportunity to actively develop household disposable bags. Water market.

Bagged water

The 5-10 liters light-weight and small package can be picked up easily, and the water can be changed easily. The elderly and children can switch independently. The drinking process is sealed without secondary pollution, and there is no contact with the air during the drinking process, which effectively isolates harmful gases and solves the secondary pollution problem of bottled water "air and water replacement" from the root. Lightweight packaging, low carbon and energy saving, is easier to recycle or reuse, which meets the requirements of future environmental development.