IMA Dairy & Food has recently announced upgrades to its ZERO Technology cutting tools, letting brands utilise monomaterial cup packages. This enhanced cutting tool aims to bring down production downtime, minimise spare part costs and raises overall efficiency. The extractable central cutting unit design, best for IMA’s Erca, Hassia and Intecma form-fill-seal (FFS) machines, allows the cutting and pre-cutting of PET, PP and PLA materials. Monomaterial cup multipacks can then be broken down … [Read more...] about IMA Dairy & Food enhances cutting tools line
Packaging
Coveris releases stretch film with recycled content
To reduce reliance on virgin plastic, packaging company Coveris has launched a new generation of lightweight stretch films that contain 30% recycled content. These low-gauge, yet high-performing films are made with recycled polythene, recovered from post-consumer waste streams and Coveris’ own circular manufacturing process. The product comes in hand and pre-stretched variants and is the thinnest recycled stretch films available in the market today. Besides being fully recyclable, they … [Read more...] about Coveris releases stretch film with recycled content
Natureworks and IMA collaboration on compostable coffee pods yield promising results
NatureWorks and IMA Coffee Lab have passed the first significant trial phase in their strategic partnership. Results were positive in compatibility testing on the K-Cup compatible compostable coffee pods. This particular stage involved identifying and achieving optimum material sealing parameters and limits on the capsules, filters and top lid films. Microleakage detection testing and figuring out how to set it up to be used by IMA packaging machineries were also done at IMA’s R&D … [Read more...] about Natureworks and IMA collaboration on compostable coffee pods yield promising results
