Cups for yoghurt, quark, fresh or cottage cheese are usually sealed with an aluminium lid. Walki, one of the world's leading manufacturers of packaging solutions based in Espoo, Finland, shows that there are sustainable alternatives. The company is one of the few suppliers of aluminium-free, flexible paper-based lid material, the Walki-Lid.
Paper base contributes to sustainability
The flexible, paper-based lid material has particular potential in terms of Environmental compatibility, because it enables the No need for aluminium, which is expensive to extract. Instead, paper is used as a renewable resource.
In addition, for the barrier against moisture and grease Renewable and recyclable materials which can be separated from the paper after use in the normal recycling process. Walki is positioning itself as an innovative pioneer here.
"The Walki-Lid is equipped with a efficient sealing layer which ensures that the packaging is undamaged and absolutely leak-proof from the bottling line via the chiller cabinet to the consumer.“
Heikki Lumme, Business Line Manager Flexible Packaging at Walki
This Reduces unnecessary waste, strengthens consumer confidence into the product and makes it more attractive for retailers. At the same time, the Walki-Lid is designed in such a way that it can be removed at the time of use. Open easily leaves.
The innovative lid material also impresses with its print surface, which precisely reproduces sophisticated images and lettering using today's printing processes, making the product stand out at the PoS.
From renewable raw materials to a closed material cycle
Not only for flexible lid materials Walki is a pioneer in sustainability.
„Our goal is to, by the year 2030 all our packaging qualities made exclusively from renewable or recycled raw materials to produce.“
Heikki Lumme, Business Line Manager Flexible Packaging at Walki
Today, the proportion in the Walki range is already 80 per cent, with Bio-based coatings such as the Walki-Wood range play an important role. Instead of petroleum-based polymers, these qualities use plant-based alternatives such as tall oil, which is a natural by-product of pulp production.
The company's long-term goal is to produce polymers from plant sources as well as Certified circular polymers in other words, those obtained by chemically recycling mixed plastic waste.
Heikki Lumme: „Our aim is to close the loop and help to ensure that Reuse used plastic sensibly instead of remaining as waste at the end of the value chain.“ The concept is currently close to market maturity and is expected to be Available in industrial style from 2020 be.
[infotext icon] The Walki Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of technical laminates and packaging solutions. Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, the company has production facilities in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK, Russia and China. Walki produces cardboard-based, multi-laminate barrier solutions for consumer packaging at its German site, among others. [/infotext]Walki at FachPack 2019: Hall 7A, Stand 436
