Company insight Paper-based sustainability
In family hands since 1807, Koehler Group has over 200 years of continuous innovation experience and excellence. Alexander Rauer, product manager flexible packaging paper, and Jens Kriete, sustainability manager, discuss the latest launches that will pave the way for the next generation of flexible paper packaging.
oehler Group is in the process of launching its next product, the Koehler NexPlus Seal. It is a sustainable heat-sealable paper and an excellent example of what good packaging is all about: protecting the content, excellent processing and, as it is paper, a good surface to print on, integrating cerebrally designed brand and product information. The NexPlus Seal is suitable for direct food contact and has excellent sealing properties and a mineral oil barrier, as well as being recyclable in an existing paper waste stream. Compared with flexible plastic film, this is one of its key advantages. For companies with a view to having 100%-recyclable packaging by 2025, this development is a highly effective solution to help achieve that. It is secondary packaging for food and consumer goods as well as primary packaging where no special barrier is required. It creates pouches, bags, flow packs and other formats.
K Koehler’s paper packaging products can be used for a wide variety of perishable and non-perishable goods.
It provides barriers for aroma, oxygen, water vapour and MOSH/MOAH, offers heat sealability, and is also prepared for the application of a cold seal layer.
size,” he says. “Large corporations have divisions of people who are working in this field. But for us, it is me and it’s an exciting role.”
Environmentally friendly packaging This product is a member of the Koehler NexFlex product family. As Alexander Rauer, product manager flexible packaging paper, explains, the product is part of “a future of constant innovation, and the pursuit of research and development with the aim to provide more environmentally friendly packaging”.
The latest coated and uncoated paper for various packaging applications all retain a high quality, including natural whiteness, high volume and high dimensional stability. “We see the future belongs to flexible packaging paper, which is moving into functionalities that previously have been mainly covered by other materials,” Rauer continues. Within that NexFlex range, the Koehler NexPlus is the latest innovative product range for flexible packaging barrier paper.
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“We see the future belongs to barrier paper, which is moving into functionalities that previously have been mainly covered by other materials.”
Alexander Rauer
Beyond this, Koehler NexPlus paper can even be run down the same lines as alternative flexible packaging films or multilayer structures, which means customers can be more sustainable without having to invest dramatically in new capital equipment. Koehler is focusing on its drive to increase the sustainability and environmental friendliness of its merchandise, an aspect that is underlined by Jens Kriete’s presence in the company. He is Koehler’s sustainability manager. “I am responsible for sustainability at Koehler, [which is] not necessarily common yet for an organisation of our
Sustainability has always been a strong aspect of paper packaging. Indeed, it is an intrinsic part of the industry. A papermaker thinks in recycling loops; it is part of the trade. And now, in the third decade of this century, it is becoming ever-more front and centre, especially in the minds of consumers. “We, at Koehler, focus on those packaging applications where we can have the biggest impact,” Kriete explains. “That is how we explore the world of applications in which our flexible packaging paper increases the value or benefit of the packaging, and does so in a sustainable manner; this is where we put our main efforts.”
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