SÜDPACK is the recipient of two German Packaging Awards. The German Packaging Award’s jury honored the film manufacturer with a recyclable bag for cheese ripening in the “new material” category and a recyclable film concept for blister packaging for solid applications in the “sustainability/recyclability” category. Both solutions are based on recyclable mono-material with material efficiency and reduced carbon footprints. On September 13, the SÜDPACK and SÜDPACK Medica teams accepted the two awards during the traditional ceremony in Berlin. The polyethylene-based concept has been certified with a recyclability of 96% by the Institute cyclos-HTP.
Compared to conventional film structures, this packaging reduces resource consumption by 23% by using a thinner film measuring 30 µm in thickness while maintaining the same functionality. SÜDPACK has reduced the carbon footprint by -52 g. CO2/m², or 19%. “These results could indeed be of particular interest to milk processors who operate internationally and who are focusing more and more on sustainable packaging concepts,” says Haux.