{"id":35783,"date":"2020-06-30T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=35783"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:26:05","slug":"wrap-cans-in-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/dosen-in-papier-einschlagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap cans in environmentally friendly paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The KHS Group has added another environmentally friendly solution to its portfolio. With its tried-and-tested Innopack Kisters tray packers, the systems supplier now also enables beverage and food cans to be wrapped in paper.<\/p>\n

The technology is a Alternative to shrink film<\/strong> or to the Wrap-around carton<\/strong>. It offers identical results in terms of stability and reduces costs compared to cardboard due to the lower material and energy consumption. Existing machines can also be converted with minor adjustments.<\/p>\n

The idea, Paper as secondary packaging<\/strong> is nothing new. KHS made its first attempts around 20 years ago. \u201eAt that time, however, the technology was not able to establish itself because the raw material paper was cost-intensive and wrapping with film delivered better results in terms of stability,\u201c explains KHS. Karl-Heinz Klumpe<\/strong>, Product Manager Packaging at KHS, explains. The beverage industry favours other solutions.<\/p>

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\u201eOur customers now want alternatives to conventional packaging solutions such as film. These should be as environmentally friendly as possible.\u201c Karl-Heinz Klumpe<\/strong>, KHS Product Manager Packaging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Together with an international beverage manufacturer the paper wrap<\/strong> developed. This form of pack can replace shrink film or wrap-around cartons as transport and sales packaging for 12 or 24-pack containers - in the high-performance sector, for example, with a Output of up to 90,000 cans per hour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Few process adjustments due to modular machine design<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To wrap packs in paper instead of film, only a few adjustments need to be made to the Innopack Kisters tray packers already established on the market. \u201eKHS is increasingly offering Modular solutions<\/strong> that enable and facilitate the corresponding conversions to the machines. In this case, we have only reworked the process module for folding and wrapping,\u201c explains Klumpe. \u201eThe standard components, such as separating trays from the magazine, gluing or can feeding, are identical to the hundreds of KHS machines that have already proven themselves on the market.\u201c<\/p>