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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

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!

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

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