Discover our Circular economy solutions: All-PE Pouch

Identifiable and Fully Recyclable All-PE Pouches A collaboration between Reifenhäuser and Comexi, leading provider of packaging machines, is conducting a pilot project for the high-quality recycling of flexible pouches. The collaboration intends to demonstrate that harnessing the R-Cycle concept can optimize the recycling process by storing recycling-relevant production data and affixing a clear ID mark on recycled packages. CROSS-INDUSTRY COOPERATION The project was started by selecting two different film recipes for two different pouch types, both based on PE raw materials only. This makes them much better to recycle than PE/PET laminates that are in common use today. The film was produced on a Reifenhäuser EVO Ultra Stretch blown-film line. Film conversion (printing and lamination) take place at Comexi, a provider of complete solutions for conversion into flexible packaging. This solution integrates the latest developments for sustainable Gelflex Inks from Wikoff and a highly energy-saving electron-beam dryer from ESI. The actual pouches are produced by Wolf Verpackungsmaschinen.