Packaging / Advertising & Office

The packaging department of Flint Group expressed its support for the CEFLEX Quality Recycling Project (QRP) to jointly develop and test double-layer flexible packaging produced from polypropylene (Polypropylene, abbreviated PP) recycled material (rPP).

Working with some well-known players in the printing and packaging sector, QRP's main goal is to create a recycling structure for PP without affecting the printing and converting processes in today's supply chain. To that end, the project aims to eventually recycle a higher percentage of PP in non-food contact film applications.

The project directly addresses the significant problem of low recycling rates in consumer households across Europe. The CEFLEX project represents a large-scale collaboration between more than 180 organisations, associations and stakeholders across Europe, making positive progress in demonstrating the potential of recyclable monolithic materials.

After a series of 5 semi-industrial trials to test the printing feasibility of films produced using rPP resin, the results showed that the use of post-consumer recycled packaging structures did not affect the printing of single-material PP bilayer composite barrier bags for non-food applications or processing.