Recycling and design

To minimize resources and reduce carbon emissions, we continue to develop resins that include post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials. Under the brand name REVOLOOP™, we are launching technologies and developments that support high quality PCR integration from mechanical recycling into our everyday plastics packaging, such as in collation shrink films.

Successfully integrating recycled contents into flexible plastic packaging starts with design. We’ve demonstrated this through our unique cross-industry collaboration project. Together with HP, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking and Karlville we answer a key question: Can a pouch be a pouch again? In our recent webinar we’ve shed light on various issues to consider when mechanically recycling digitally printed colorful pouches into high-quality MDO-PE¹ pouches again.

Other success stories include the joint team work with industry players Syntegon, Comexi, Plastchim-T and Ticinoplast to design high-barrier food pouches for recyclability based on TF-BOPE² technology – making manufacturers and squirrels happy. Generation 2.0 of recyclable high barrier MDO-PE packaging are in the spotlight of Bobst collaboration with partners. They’ve achieved a key milestone in replacing non-recyclable high barrier multi-material structures with mono-material alternatives.

How can we work together to close the loop?

¹MDO-PE: machine-direction oriented polyethylene

²TF-BOPE: tenter-frame biaxially oriented polyethylene

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