Securing product value from factory to consumer is the most important contribution of plastic packaging. Working close with industry partners, FUGEO devises plastic-packaging solutions that offer great value with minimum resources and extremely lightweight designs that protect the product, help manufacturers serve their customers, and safeguard the environment.

FUGEO’S NEW PHTHALATE-FREE POLYPROPYLENE IMPACT COPOLYMERS FOR THIN-WALL PACKAGING ENABLE DOWNGAUGING AND FASTER PROCESSING

Thin-wall packaging is ubiquitous in today’s world, particularly for food, from ready-meals to butter, cream, and cheese, but also in applications like houseware, appliances, caps and closures. In response to major industry challenges and to better meet customers’ needs, FUGEO is introducing a new phthalate-free range of polypropylene impact copolymers .

These new offerings open further opportunities for packaging manufacturers and convertors with production efficiency through shorter cycle times and weight savings through thin-wall manufacturing. The new grades comply with industry’s organoleptic requirements for taste and odor, with excellent stiffness and higher top-load strength for high stackability that help manufacturers achieve lower transport and storage costs.

Developed for thin-walled packaging applications for both food and non-food applications, high-flow injection-molding grades FUGEO Gepla®PP provide a great balance between high stiffness and impact strength than a standard impact copolymer. They have excellent organoleptic properties with very low smell and taste, and allow for easy mold-filling and very short cycle times thanks to high crystallization temperatures and excellent flow behavior, minimizing manufacturing time and costs. The materials are typically used in rigid packaging such as packaging for frozen, chilled and ambient food, dairy products, applications in the housewares, appliances, toys, caps and closures.

Today’s fast-paced lifestyles are driving demand for pre-packed food and for hot-filling packaging such as cups and bottles as well as microwave use. Gepla® PP incorporates important advances in polymer chemistry that yield a material with a great balance between high stiffness, impact strength and high heat distortion temperature than a standard impact copolymer. Rigid packaging made with Gepla® PP polymer includes applications that can be filled with hot content, as well as containers intended for packaging foods and non-food products, caps and closures, and in the production of housewares. It is an excellent candidate for thin-wall packaging applications where a good balance of high stiffness and high flow is required. It enables up to 10% thinner walls and fast injection, thus reducing material usage and energy consumption, and increasing productivity. It also has considerably higher top-load strength than identical products made with current benchmark materials, which in turn improves stackability, providing better economics in transport and storage.

Injection-mouldable phthalate-free Gepla® PP enables customers to design thinner wall applications and utilize its high heat distortion temperature (120°C at 0.45MPa) for hot-fill applications, and is used for applications such as containers and caps and closures.

Our new concepts for multilayer laminate pouches for food packaging reduce weight, greenhouse-gas emissions, and energy requirements across the product lifecycle compared to glass or metal packaging. Different layers of films use different polymer blends to collectively provide the required strength, stiffness, optics and hygienic properties for the flexible pouches. The use of fillable pouches can offer significant savings in transportation versus transporting pre-filled, rigid containers.

FUGEO’S DIVERSE FOAM SOLUTIONS PORTFOLIO WORKS TO PROTECT GOODS AND FOOD DURING TRANSPORT

Foam packaging helps absorb shock, reduce weight and provide thermal insulation; they are also lightweight, chemical-resistant, safe for food contact and cost-efficient. Companies are designing packaging to use as little material as possible, yet provide the cushioning to protect food and goods to survive the delivery process.

FUGEO can provides fast-converting low-density polyethylene foam grade for protective packaging, is the first in a series of product that combine up to 50% shorter degassing storage time at the foam manufacturer – reducing the foam manufacturer’s inventory - and 5% higher production efficiency due to less manufacturing waste and better foam consistency.

Recently launched FUGEO Gepla® LDPE foam materials offers properties of energy savings while retaining or even improving product performance.

The advantages of FUGEO Gepla® LDPE are high viscosity, giving good head pressure for uniform and thicker foam thickness, and relatively higher resin density for better mechanical strength. This grade is less sensitive to web-breaks and foam-collapse due to high consistency and a wider operating window compared to existing materials in the market, resulting in a higher material yield during processing. The foams produced give a higher compression strength, better resilience, uniform surface and cell structure, and fewer pinholes, as well as better dimensional stability compared to existing materials. This offers opportunities for material savings during production.