Green rigid packaging
Sacmi, Hall 4 Booth F06
New tethered standards, lightweighting and recycling will be Sacmi’s focal points at Interpack with one goal: to provide customers with immediate, tangible benefits by seizing green transition opportunities.
Sacmi provide solutions for every stage of rigid packaging production, from cap to preform, from stretch-blow moulding to complete bottling lines.
On the cap manufacturing front, Sacmi implemented the EU Directive that requires adoption of the new tethered standard from 2024 onwards. With a complete range of caps and profitable methods – such as post-process slitting and integrated quality control – Sacmi is ready to respond to market requirements and guide the transition.
New ultra-light standards
In recent years, few industries have focused as sharply on sustainability as packaging has. As the data clearly shows, container and cap weights have fallen by 50% or more since 2010. The latest developments in this area include the 26/22 mm (with the 25/22 variant) and the new lightened 29/25 mm necks, a set of standards on which the Sacmi Laboratory has developed ready-to-market solutions that can cut neck+cap plastic consumption by 30% or more. There are, of course, challenges, such as successfully making this switch while continuing to ensure an optimal consumer experience. For examples: The new ‘tethered-friendly’ caps for GME 30.40 necks and the 26/22 caps for water which combine increased height with considerable raw material savings.
The circularity challenge
From a 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) perspective, the PET supply chain is the one best suited to a circular economy approach, from resin recycling to finished containers for food use. That’s why Sacmi ensured its preform injection presses are able to process up to 50% PET in recycled flake form, a figure that can rise to 75% with the latest developments being introduced.
Customer service
Europe may lead the global packaging industry’s drive towards sustainability, yet producers are nevertheless forced to operate in a ‘VUCA’ (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment that places them between strict regulatory frameworks and the need to remain, in any case, competitive on global markets.
The Sacmi response is about effective customer assistance and support: from the product ‘idea’ to the technologies needed to make it, from the revamping/efficiency enhancement of existing solutions to the implementation of new production standards, processes and raw materials. The company said that they deliver complete solutions so producers tackle the transition with the right tools, such as next-gen vision systems where AI unlocks enormous plant control potential while enhancing user-friendliness.
Packaging & Chocolate
Solutions exhibited at the fair will also include the Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate range of machines and plants for processing and packaging chocolate and other food/non-food products. At the Sacmi Packaging & Chocolate stand, visitors to Interpack can look forward to ‘experiential tours’ that focus on specific aspects of the industry: chocolate processing and moulding, chocolate packaging, packaging for other industries.
