Industry News CON-JUL21-EMERSON QUARTER:CON-JUL21-EMERSON QUARTER 18 Editor’s Note
Welcome to the September issue of Converter. The Converter team joins the nation in mourning following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and we offer our deepest sympathies to His Majesty The King and the whole Royal Family.
Seldom does one person have so much global impact and influence over such a long period of time and this time of change has no doubt affected us all in many ways and will continue to do so. One small but important change that may affect some of those businesses that the packaging industry services will be the matter of Royal Warrants. Upon the change of reigning Sovereign, the Royal Warrant document becomes void although companies usually have up to two years to phase it out. According the Royal Warrant Holders Association, the Royal Household will be also be reviewing Warrant grants.
In this issue we look at the ever-evolving areas of Film & Foil, Flexible Packaging, Machine Vision & Web Inspection and Slitting & Rewinding. I hope you find it informative and interesting.
Lynn Sencicle Editor
lsencicle@datateam.co.uk
EFSA approves Greiner Packaging’s Starlinger deCON technology as safe for food contact packaging
The European Food Safety Authority has approved the decontamination process used by Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland, at its factory in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials. “This is a significant and hugely important step in our journey to use increasing amounts of recycled material in our food-grade packaging,” says UK sales director Julie Eller. “The EFSA panel has concluded that the recycling process we use is safe for the manufacturing of food-grade packaging. “We have invested over £3,700,000 in our new PET decontamination and extrusion line to enable the use of more recycled materials in our market- leading packaging ranges. This is the latest step in our continued commitment to innovate, increase capacity and reduce our carbon footprint. “Since Greiner Packaging first introduced its K3 cardboard-plastic innovation in 2007, there has been continuous investment at our UK manufacturing facility. But, alongside investing to create new packaging solutions, there has been a constant focus on investing in improving our environmental sustainability performance and pursuing our goal to achieve a circular economy.”
Recycled plastic materials and articles can only be placed on the market if the recycled plastic is from an authorised recycling process, and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)’s opinion on its safety is required. The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP) assessed the safety of Greiner Packaging’s recycling process, using the Starlinger deCON technology, and concluded: “The recycled PET obtained from this process is not considered to be of safety concern, when used at up to 100% for the manufacture of materials and articles for contact with all types of foodstuffs for long-term storage at room temperature, with or without hotfill.”
Xwww.greiner-gpi.com/en
Continuous Coating
Coating, Drying and Laminating - the basic functions of the «KTF-S»
The system is available in a powder-coated steel or full stainless steel version depending on customer requirements
The use of a production machine is not financially viable for research and development purposes
The most economical solution is our continuous coating system of modular design for various materials such as paper, textile, copper, aluminum and plastic foils
www.convertermag.com
September 2022
5
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46
