MACHINERY | THERMOFORMING
“Because of rising energy costs, energy efficiency was also high on our list.” Pack Klaipėda originally focused on expanded PS containers for take-away food but decided to move into other food packaging – notably for meat and poultry – about three years ago. “This new line fits the trend to produce more with 100% PCR material such as bottle flakes, and works also with other thermoforming regrind,” said Roald de Bruijne, sales manager at Meaf. “However, the process needs to ensure that the cleaning and decontamination is properly done in order to adhere to the strict FDA/EFSA regulations.” Kreyenborg’s IR-Clean is designed for direct
Above: Meaf has installed an R-PET extrusion line for meat packaging at Pack Klaipėda of Lithuania
current market requirements from North and Central America,” said Erik Hemgesberg, VP for thermoforming and packaging systems. “For thermoforming companies with a stock of Sencorp tools, we offer a solution for utilising their tools in a cutting-edge thermoforming system.”
R-PET forming Pack Klaipėda, a Lithuanian packaging producer, has installed an R-PET line from Meaf Machines to make thermoformed meat trays. The line combines Meaf’s sheet extrusion lines
with Kreyenborg’s IR-Clean technology post-con- sumer recycled PET. The result is a method to produce FDA/EFSA approved single layer PET food grade sheet. The thermoforming line is also suited for the production of PP trays. “We found Meaf to have the same output at a
much smaller footprint than competitors’ offerings,” said Darius Kontrimas, CTO at Pack Klaipėda.
reprocessing of post-consumer PET flakes for food packaging, combining crystallisation and drying in a single process. It operates without vacuum technology and can be retrofitted to existing extrusion lines. “When it comes to using R-PET for packaging,
bottle-to-bottle is relatively easy as the mechanical properties of the regrind are pretty stable,” said de Bruijne. “Tray-to-tray recycling is harder, so we are developing a compact unit for IV level increase that can be fully integrated in new and existing extru- sion lines.”
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