According to the current recycling standards, typical PET, aluminum, and PE composites are difficult or impossible to recycle.
The trend in Europe is towards OPP laminate as a better alternative for high-barrier composites. Gascogne's innovative triplex laminate solutions offer the thermal stability of PET film, the barrier of aluminum foil and the excellent sealing properties of a PE film. A “win-win-win solution”
Gascogne sales manager Holger Eschenburg puts it in a nutshell: "Together with our production and packaging development at Gascogne Flexible in Linnich, we have taken an important step towards high-barrier composite films. These new mono-OPP composites are ideal for our customers from the coffee, tea and snack industry who want or need to focus on sustainability in the future.
We achieve the following values of seal strength > 8 N/15 mm / water vapor density 38C90%F <0.5 and oxygen density 23C 85% <0.1.
In addition to the food industry, more and more companies in the pharmaceutical industry are striving for recyclable solutions in order to best meet current packaging regulations and future recycling regulations. We are happy to help interested companies with our know-how.