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MOSCOW (MRC) -- CCL Industries Inc.
today announced plans for a strategic new capacity investment at its Innovia
Films extrusion site in Plock, Poland. A new six-metre multi-layer co-extrusion
line will be installed to produce EcoFloat shrink sleeve material, said Packagingeurope.
This
hybrid polyolefin film facilitates easy separation of labels from PET bottles
and other types of plastic containers in the recycling process with the aim of
enabling bottle-to-bottle circularity, an important goal for global food and
beverage brand owners. The capacity will come online in early 2022 with most of
the capital deployed in 2021.
“CCL developed a floatable polyolefin
shrink film to meet the new market demands and to help brand owners reach their
sustainability and recycling targets set by the EU. We see this as the
sustainable decoration solution of the future – for a whole range of packaging
in the beverage, dairy, home care and other industries,” says Guenther Birkner,
president of Innovia and CCL’s food and beverage business.
“This is why
we have decided to invest in new capacities in Europe to be in an ideal position
to supply the growing demand we expect in the future." Alongside the investment
into extrusion, CCL has also secured a raw material supply agreement with its
partner Polyplastics, a global supplier of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) under
the TOPAS brand.
Birkner concludes: “Our investment is part of our
commitment to boost plastic recycling and take steps towards a circular economy
as stated when we signed the Global Commitment of the New Plastics Economy led
by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation earlier this year. In the future, the EU will
set a target for the recycling rate in municipal waste.
"Reaching these
will not be feasible without investing in new technologies for packaging
materials that support ‘Design for Recycling’. As a floatable, low-density
polyolefin film, EcoFloat fulfills the requirements for sleeves as defined in
packaging design guidelines."
As MRC informed earlier,
Innovia Films is launching the first of its new range of transparent high
barrier packaging films, Propafilm Strata SL.. The film has been designed
to be a standalone monofilmic solution, to be used in laminate constructions to
be recycle ready, or recyclable in countries which have the infrastructure to
recycle polypropylene films.
We remind, Innovia
Films (Innovia) recognises that today’s competitive market place demands
packaging films that perform on a variety of machines, at the highest possible
speeds. As overall production costs are scrutinized, achieving high efficiencies
is becoming increasingly vital. In response to these trends, Innovia is pleased
to introduce its latest high speed Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) film
- Propafilm REF.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,594,510 tonnes in the first nine
months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high denstiy polyethylene (HDPE)
shipments increased.
Innovia Films is a leading global manufacturer of
two 'families' of speciality products supplied into the packaging, labels,
tobacco overwrap and securities markets - Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene
(BOPP) and Cellulose based films. With a turnover in excess of EUR400m, its
total annual film production capacity currently stands at more than 120,000
tonnes. |
