RKW Group Launches Recyclable PE Plastic Films with EVOH Barrier for Sustainable Packaging

RKW Group Introduced Sustainable PE Plastic Films

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RKW Group has revealed its modern invention in sustainable packing solutions with the outline of new films with a united ethylene-vinyl alcohol (EVOH) barrier. The films, improved with the modern machine-direction orientation (MDO) expertise, provide sustainability and recyclability across numerous packaging arrangements and trades, setting new standards for flexible packaging. Customers’ rising demand and imminent worldwide guidelines are influencing the requirement for these advanced resolutions.

RKW Group’s prolonged MDO-polyethylene (PE) product line, comprising films with an EVOH fence, allegedly reports these necessities, providing a recyclable substitute to traditional packing resources. The RKW Horizon MDO-PE films, when united with RKW ProTec sticking films, result in a packing made completely from PE. This homogeneity makes them perfect for recycling, conflicting with predictable multi-resource packages that are more stimulating to procedure.

The RKW Horizon films allegedly fulfil severe necessities for aesthetics, flexibility, and durability in packaging. They are planned for better presentation on usual packaging equipment, contributing advantages such as superior printability, tear resistance, and high transparency. MDO-PE films supply an extensive range of packaging requirements, comprising lidding films, flow packs, stand-up pouches, side gusset bags, and sachets. Previously, RKW Group offered its film and net resolutions, as well as nonwovens for the complete supply chain, from plant agriculture to packing and transportation, at the Fruit Logistica event in Berlin, Germany.

Customers are progressively demanding sustainability in plastic packing for consumer goods. In conclusion, several countries are focusing on new packaging guidelines, such as the PPWR (Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation) in Europe. The films are also essential to be easy to progress through. RKW's broad creation of a portfolio of MDO-PE films, in partnership with RKW ProTec sealing packaging, fulfills all these necessities.

MDO-PE packaging is mono-oriented PE films that obtain special properties through extending and is promoted under the brand known as RKW Horizon®. The RKW Horizon® product portfolio of MDO films is exclusive globally and comprises extremely transparent MDO-PE films, printing alternatives, matt surface, white opaque variations, and, most recently, MDO-PE films with an EVOH oxygen fence.

RKW Group sales consumer packaging director, Luc Hermans, expressed: “As a manufacturer of high-quality plastic films, we are acutely aware of our responsibility. That’s why we continuously develop our product portfolio of sustainable mono-material solutions. We also offer low-SIT [seal-initiation temperature] sealing films with PCR (post-consumer recycled) content, which we can combine with MDO-PE films for various non-food applications.”