Packaging
Innovative and Sustainable – Südpack at the Anuga FoodTec in Cologne
Wednesday 04. March 2009 - Top quality, technological advantages and resource saving, economical packaging solutions. With this set of topics, Südpack Verpackungen GmbH & Co. KG from Ochsenhausen is set to present itself at the Anuga FoodTec 2009 in Cologne (Hall 6.1, Stand P20/Q29) as an innovative and sustainably operating packaging specialist.
Among other things, we will be presenting the latest generation of flexible films, high-quality refinements, the canned preserve replacements “barrier lid” and ecoterm SAV, as well as the Multipeel multiple seal, which is now available in a flow wrap version. The product range to be shown in Cologne is rounded off by the film-based steamer system EcoSteam and the cooking foil for the microwave EcoVent.
“The Anuga FoodTec offers us an excellent platform for the presentation of our latest innovations. In Cologne, we hope to score above all with the new flexible films that we will be producing on our extrusion line from April. Here, we are not only optimising the quality of our products, but also the profitability and the use of raw materials,” Johannes Remmele, Managing Director of Südpack Verpackungen GmbH & Co. KG, explains.
Sustainable and resource-saving production has played a major role at Südpack for years. “Through the optimal use of raw materials and the reduction of waste and packaging weights, we are able to achieve a double win-win situation together with our customers. The customer saves on transport and disposal costs to a great extent, and at the same time we protect the environment because less energy and raw materials are needed for production and transport, meaning less emissions are produced,” says Remmele.
Plastic solutions for sterilisation and long-term storage
The saving and sustainability effect is also a powerful argument for the solutions for sterilisation and long-term storage, which Südpack is also to present in Cologne. Barrier lid and ecoterm SAV. Both types of film are just as well suited to pasteurisation and sterilisation as to long-term storage at room temperature and are therefore particularly popular for ready meals, baby food, preserved fruit and pet food. “Our fully plastic solutions have various advantages, both for marketing and logistic reasons,” Manfred Hoch, Head of Business Development at Südpack, explains. “For example, plastic offers great freedom of design in terms of shaping and colouring. In addition, pure, transparent plastic composites allow an uninhibited view of the product, something which is frequently desired.”
Alongside the marketing aspects, concrete economic considerations also speak for the plastic solution: “Plastic bowls can be stacked easily and are very light – meaning they are simple and cheap to transport. In addition, the reject rate is marginal as plastic is inherently stable and does not break even when the packaging falls or is dropped. Particularly interesting, and being used in an ever increasing number of companies, are stand-up pouches for sterilised or pasteurised products. Here, too, aluminium composites can probably be replaced with high barrier solutions made from pure plastic,” Hoch continues. “This flexible packaging not only scores because it looks nice on the shelf, but also wins people over with its comparably low material costs.”
High refinement competence
Regardless of sustainability and profitability, in the competition to gain the consumer’s attention in the supermarket, looking good is important. That’s why the film specialist offers printing and laminating technologies for an attractive presentation of your products on the shelf. It goes without saying that the issue of sustainability is not forgotten here. “Our ten colour flexographic printing is now of such good quality that it only barely takes second place to intaglio printing. This means that we are now able to produce many pictures using flexographic printing for which we have had to fall back on the more complex intaglio printing procedure until now. This offers economic advantages particularly for customers whose printed images change frequently as the print preparation costs are much lower for flexographic printing. In addition, energy requirements and ink use, as well as the materials required for the production of master copies for printing, are much lower, which in turn helps the environment,” Johannes Remmele explains. “However, as we also have high-performance intaglio printing machines at our disposal, we can use intaglio printing anywhere that it is necessary or more economical. This applies for example to prints with up to twelve colours, doubled-sided prints with exact pattern repeats, matt-glossy combinations or very large print runs,” the Managing Director concludes.