Post by GSG on Jan 25, 2024 10:19:16 GMT
The REWE Group, one of Austria's largest retailers, is offering the premium cheeses in its organic brand Ja! Natürlichon in paper trays that reduce plastic use by 70%. Mondi Fiber Packaging is the developer and supplier of perFORMing's new line of paper tray material, which is shipped as roll material to REWE's dairy producer Salzburgmilch. The material is fed to a highly automated GEA packaging line that thermoforms the trays, robotically loads the cheese slices with Weber pickers, removes ambient air, washes the tray with CO2 and applies a transparent lid material. Austrian retail stores BILLA, MERKUR, ADEG and Sutterlüty, which are part of the REWE Group, offer the organic cheese slices in these new paper trays. Material reduction In Austria, these can be recycled as waste paper because they are made from 80% virgin fiber and only 20% plastic. According to.
Mondi, the new packaging reduces plastic consumption by 70% and the carbon footprint by around two-thirds compared to the previous solution. The natural brown paper of the new cheese packaging is produced by Mondi Frantschach, Carinthia, predominantly from Austrian wood. The paper rolls then go to Mondi Styria where the paper receives an EVOH Telegram Database extrusion coating treatment. Once this coating is applied, the total weight of the paper is 290 gsm. Organic cheeses on paper trays When the coated paper arrives at Salzburgmilch, it is fed into a GEA PowerPak form/fill/seal system. It includes three Weber robots that load the cheese into the thermoforming machines. The clear lid material is heat sealed onto the cheese, but details about what type of film this is are not available . Once the individual packages have been cut from the coil, they are packaged in corrugated secondary packaging.
A nice feature of this material is that it is processed on the same thermoforming machinery used for plastics,” says Falk Paulsen, Mondi Sales Director, Extrusion Coatings. “Yes, there are small adjustments to be made, but it would be unrealistic to expect food companies like Salzburgmilch to discontinue all their form/fill/seal systems just to be able to process our material,” adds Paulsen. After a nine-month test phase in cooperation with dairy producersolutions offers multiple benefits. First, paper has the lowest carbon footprint of all packaging types, and second, it is recyclable, with paper recycling rates across Europe already exceeding .
Mondi, the new packaging reduces plastic consumption by 70% and the carbon footprint by around two-thirds compared to the previous solution. The natural brown paper of the new cheese packaging is produced by Mondi Frantschach, Carinthia, predominantly from Austrian wood. The paper rolls then go to Mondi Styria where the paper receives an EVOH Telegram Database extrusion coating treatment. Once this coating is applied, the total weight of the paper is 290 gsm. Organic cheeses on paper trays When the coated paper arrives at Salzburgmilch, it is fed into a GEA PowerPak form/fill/seal system. It includes three Weber robots that load the cheese into the thermoforming machines. The clear lid material is heat sealed onto the cheese, but details about what type of film this is are not available . Once the individual packages have been cut from the coil, they are packaged in corrugated secondary packaging.
A nice feature of this material is that it is processed on the same thermoforming machinery used for plastics,” says Falk Paulsen, Mondi Sales Director, Extrusion Coatings. “Yes, there are small adjustments to be made, but it would be unrealistic to expect food companies like Salzburgmilch to discontinue all their form/fill/seal systems just to be able to process our material,” adds Paulsen. After a nine-month test phase in cooperation with dairy producersolutions offers multiple benefits. First, paper has the lowest carbon footprint of all packaging types, and second, it is recyclable, with paper recycling rates across Europe already exceeding .