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  • 1.  Sustainable Packaging ideas

    Posted 06-28-2023 12:36 PM

    I wanted to put out some feelers and see if there were any converters out there who had some sustainable packaging initiatives. I am currently at a company that makes disinfectants. Attached is mainly the packaging we use

    -labelled canisters filled with wipes

    -labelled 1L & 4 Gallon jugs

    -Tighthead containers

    -38mm closures with vented liners

    I am open to any and all possible sustainable initiatives (resin, design, reduced materials) so please feel free to share anything your company may have

    Thanks in advance

    Jason Berg



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    Jason Berg CPP
    Packaging Engineer
    Virox Technologies
    Oakville ON
    1 800-387-7578
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  • 2.  RE: Sustainable Packaging ideas

    Posted 06-29-2023 09:24 PM

    Morning Jason,

    We had a success story with GSK, now Haleon a few years ago based on improving the barrier properties of their Advil packaging. 

    "McDonald credits the success of the lightweighting program to GSK's collaboration/partnership with Dow and Milliken for the materials and Alltrista Plastics for the manufacturing."

    Advil Reducing Plastic in 80+ Million HDPE Bottles by 20% (plasticstoday.com)

    This was mainly through, improving the barrier characteristics of the HDPE using one of our additives. Think they manage to improve the barrier by something like 30%. With that they were able to reduce the thickness of the packaging. All while keeping it 100% recyclable.

    I am thinking this might be possible for Wipes as well, as I suppose WVTR might be quite an important property for your Wipe filled containers that I assume are made from HDPE. I'll be happy to connect you with my colleagues who look after your region, if you are keen to explore the opportunity together. 

    Thanks!



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    Darell Chung, CPP
    Sustainability Packaging Manager, South Asia
    Milliken Asia
    darell.chung@milliken.com
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  • 3.  RE: Sustainable Packaging ideas

    Posted 06-30-2023 07:29 PM
    Hi Darell,
    This is an interesting read , thanks for sharing.
    I didn't know about the McDonald's-GSK story.

    Bethel Ibemere CPP
    AutoZone 
    Packaging Engineer 



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  • 4.  RE: Sustainable Packaging ideas

    Posted 02-20-2024 05:58 PM

    Hi Jason,

    I am replying to your request for "any initiatives". Our initiatives are more on the packaging side. We've developed a sugarcane (bagasse) based board that is excellent for folding cartons and can be marketed as "Tree Free". It comes in both an uncoated and a coated version. We also have a sugarcane "Cut & Stack" label stock in development that we will be launching soon.

    Kindest regards,



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    John Kohnke
    Director, Business Development
    Belmont CA
    (650) 576-0328
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