New cpp film supporting circular economy

Cov­eris, a Euro­pean man­u­fac­tur­er of flex­i­ble pack­ag­ing solu­tions, is launch­ing a new, sus­tain­able and high-per­for­mance ver­sion of its CPP film. The lat­est inven­tion is a cast polypropy­lene film (CPP), the Cov­eris Print Lay­er (PP CPL), designed for flex­i­ble pack­ag­ing of a wide range of food, pet food and non-food products.

With its improved struc­ture, it offers out­stand­ing stiff­ness that per­fect­ly pro­tects the prod­uct from exter­nal dam­age. The key fac­tor behind CPP’s excel­lent per­for­mance is the abil­i­ty to with­stand re-shrink­ing at high tem­per­a­tures (0% at 150°C). In addi­tion, the mono-mate­r­i­al is retortable and pro­vides strong heat-seal resis­tance up to 180°C.

Thanks to its 100% PP based struc­ture, it suc­cess­ful­ly min­imis­es mate­r­i­al waste and thus under­lines Cov­eris’ com­mit­ment to the cir­cu­lar econ­o­my. “In sum­ma­ry, our lat­est film solu­tion out­per­forms the stan­dard CPP film’s char­ac­ter­is­tics and com­pen­sates some of the dis­ad­van­tages the man­u­fac­tur­er expe­ri­enced in the past. By com­bin­ing the ben­e­fits of nor­mal CPP and BOPP film, it offers ide­al prop­er­ties for flex­i­ble pack­ag­ing of food, pet food and non-food prod­ucts on the mar­ket,” com­ments Jan-Torsten Vollmer, Head of R&D and Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment at Cov­eris Kufstein.

The new Cov­eris Print Lay­er is also per­fect for polypropy­lene lam­i­nates. It offers high trans­paren­cy and gloss, which help brands boost their pres­ence on the super­mar­ket shelves. The new CPP film is avail­able for both flexo and rotogravure print­ing, which ensures that the graph­ics catch the customer’s attention.