The current trend in the packaging industry cannot be overlooked at Anuga FoodTec 2022: sustainable packaging. The food and beverage industry is increasingly focussing on renewable raw materials, recyclable materials and is increasingly switching from conventional packaging concepts to other concepts.
From 26 to 29 April 2022, visitors to the international supplier trade fair for the food and beverage industry in Cologne will find out how packaging manufacturers and packaging machine builders are shaping the transition to greater sustainability and what challenges need to be overcome. This important and forward-looking topic will also be expertly covered in the event and congress programme.
Looking ahead to the upcoming Anuga FoodTec, it is clear that there is no universal solution for the reduction and recyclability of packaging materials. However, wherever composite films or plastic trays can be dispensed with, they are being replaced by mono films or cardboard. The packaging machine specialists at the Cologne exhibition centre take the increased demands on sustainability very seriously and are responding with modular machine concepts that process both conventional and sustainable packaging materials thanks to intelligent robotics and automation.
Sören Storbeck, Global Product Account Manager Packaging at KHS in Dortmund, knows just how important this flexibility is for secondary packaging in particular: „In the market, we can see that packaging variants that represent an alternative to disposable plastic are becoming established, especially in the beer and carbonated soft drinks segments.“ With the Innopack Kisters CNP (Carton Nature Packer), KHS offers the beverage industry a corresponding solution. The system processes cardboard can tops with a capacity of up to 108,000 containers per hour. The alternative to plastic film or plastic rings offers pack size variants for four, six or eight cans.
