UFlex, Hoffer Plastics and Mespack launch 100% recyclable hot-fill pouches
UFlex, India’s largest multinational flexible packaging company and a global polymer sciences corporation, has partnered with Mespack, an international manufacturer of flexible packaging, end-of-line and soluble pods equipment for consumer-packaged goods companies serving the world’s leading brands and Hoffer Plastics, an industry leader and innovator in the custom injection molding industry, to develop a sustainable solution that will ease out the complexities of recycling attached with hot-fill pouches. To address the issue of full recyclability of pouches, the three titans have jointly developed a turnkey solution that not just enables 100% recyclability of hot-fill pouches with its new mono-polymer structure but also the spout caps thus bringing many ecologically responsible brands closer to reaching their sustainability goals.
Hot-fill pouches are used to pack ready-to-eat food segment allowing sterile packaging of a range of fresh, cooked or semi-cooked food, juices and drinks, and are used as an alternative to traditional industrial canning methods.