Sig wins Environmental Award Of The Year

Sig­na­ture Pack from SIG has won anoth­er impor­tant indus­try award: the Gul­food Man­u­fac­tur­ing Indus­try Excel­lence Awards which have now been announced at the Gul­food Man­u­fac­tur­ing in Dubai. Sig­na­ture Pack, the world’s first asep­tic car­ton pack with a clear link to 100% plant-based renew­able mate­ri­als, was hon­oured with the ‘Envi­ron­men­tal Award of the Year’. With this award the jury acknowl­edges the impor­tance this excep­tion­al pack­ag­ing pro­vides to the food and bev­er­age industry.
The Gul­food Man­u­fac­tur­ing Indus­try Excel­lence Awards rewards best prac­tices and inno­va­tions with­in the val­ue chain of the food man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try. The expert jury mem­bers are inter­na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the food pro­cess­ing and pack­ag­ing indus­tries, graph­ics experts, equip­ment sup­pli­ers, sci­en­tists, the trade press, the gov­ern­ment as well as envi­ron­men­tal and trade organizations.
The jury’s ver­dict states: “Sig­na­ture Pack is an excel­lent inno­va­tion in reduc­ing alu­minum and plas­tics use in pack­ag­ing – great for the environment!”

Value-added packaging solution

Sig­na­ture Pack is a val­ue-added solu­tion that meets the demands of the indus­try and today’s con­sumer expec­ta­tions for more envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble prod­ucts. It is one of the lat­est inno­va­tions from SIG as it strives to offer cus­tomers the most sus­tain­able food pack­ag­ing solu­tions as part of its mis­sion to go Way Beyond Good. The poly­mers used for lam­i­nat­ing the paper­board and mak­ing the clo­sure of the Sig­na­ture Pack are 100% linked to plant-based mate­r­i­al via a mass bal­ance sys­tem, where­by plant-based raw mate­ri­als are mixed in with con­ven­tion­al fos­sil raw mate­ri­als to pro­duce the poly­mers. This means that for the poly­mers used in the Sig­na­ture Pack, an equiv­a­lent amount of bio-based feed­stock went into the man­u­fac­tur­ing of the poly­mers. The amount of plant-based mate­r­i­al is cer­ti­fied by recog­nised and audit­ed cer­ti­fi­ca­tion schemes to ensure strict trace­abil­i­ty and accountability.
Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and respon­si­bil­i­ty are becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant in the MEA region. Sig­na­ture Pack pro­vides a con­sis­tent answer to reduc­ing the use of fos­sil raw mate­ri­als as well as reduc­ing the car­bon foot­print. While most com­pa­nies are still in the con­cept phase with their ideas, Sig­na­ture Pack is a solu­tion ready for the market.