ght these three companies together were as follow:FrieslandCampina wanted to replace the existing bottom sheet for its cheese packaging with material that is recyclable but also stronger than the laminated APET/PE structure previously in use.
Südpack was driven by production requirements for a material that met or exceeded the demanding specifications of its Form Fill Seal (FSS) technology – packaging systems that form, fill and seal a package on the same machine.
Octal provided the packaging material solution – Octal DPET (direct-to-sheet PET), which is 100% recyclable.
Octal claims its DPET is the first and only direct-to-sheet polyester sheet in the world.
The technology eliminates five energy intensive stages of the conventional sheet production process.
William J. Barenberg, Jr, chief operating officer at Octal, said direct-to-sheet technology establishes, for the food packaging market, a new standard for quality and sustainability.
“This translates into better processing performance for customers and a superior stream of PET flake for collection and reprocessing waste. Octal is proud to be a part of improving both the sustainability profile of PET sheet available to the market as well as the sheets or pellets reprocessed after collection and reprocessing.”
Barenberg said he expects more companies to convert to PET.
