Syntegon wins German Packaging Award 2020

The Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Insti­tute (“dvi – Deutsches Ver­pack­ungsin­sti­tut e.V.”) has hon­ored Syn­te­gon Tech­nol­o­gy, for­mer­ly Bosch Pack­ag­ing Tech­nol­o­gy, with the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Award in the cat­e­go­ry “Pack­ag­ing Machines”: the com­pact TPU1000 form, fill and seal sys­tem con­vinced the jury with its wide range of pos­si­bil­i­ties for inno­v­a­tive, sus­tain­able por­tion packs made of fiber-based mate­r­i­al. The Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Award 2020 under­lines Syn­te­gon’s focus on sus­tain­able and intel­li­gent technologies.

Every year, the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Insti­tute dvi hon­ors ground­break­ing pack­ag­ing ideas and machines in a con­test that encom­pass­es all indus­tries and pack­ag­ing mate­ri­als. This year, one of the cov­et­ed prizes went to the TPU1000 paper form­ing machine from Syn­te­gon. Accord­ing to the jury, the form, fill and seal machine for paper-based pack­ag­ing mate­r­i­al paves the way for new, sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing solu­tions that meet the trends towards replac­ing petro­chem­i­cal plas­tics and indi­vid­u­al­iza­tion. “The TPU offers brand own­ers with high demands on sus­tain­abil­i­ty and aes­thet­ics com­plete­ly new pack­ag­ing options for food, cos­met­ics and non-food prod­ucts,” says Matthias Klauser, sus­tain­abil­i­ty expert at Syn­te­gon Tech­nol­o­gy. “We are there­fore all the more pleased that the dvi rec­og­nizes our inno­va­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts.”

The mod­ule-based TPU1000 forms envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly “Shaped Paper Pods” with a fill­ing vol­ume of ten to 100 mil­li­liters, which are suit­able for sin­gle-por­tion packs and small-for­mat prod­ucts that are nor­mal­ly pack­aged in blis­ters. The mate­r­i­al fed from the paper roll is formed into the desired shape at a speed of up to 15,000 pack­ages per hour. This enables high qual­i­ty pack­ag­ing designs and emboss­ing for a vari­ety of prod­ucts and fill­ing techniques.

“In com­bi­na­tion with Billerud­Ko­rsnäs’ 3D formable Fibre­Form® paper, the TPU1000 pro­duces unique pack­ag­ing with a spe­cial feel that meets both brand man­u­fac­tur­ers’ needs for an indi­vid­ual look and feel and their sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts,” says Klauser. Fibre­Form® allows for up to ten times deep­er emboss­ing than reg­u­lar paper. This results in unique 3D effects that dif­fer from exist­ing pack­ag­ing solu­tions on the mar­ket. Var­i­ous types of bar­ri­er lay­ers can be applied to ensure the nec­es­sary pro­tec­tion of the respec­tive prod­uct. The jury of the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Award praised the inno­v­a­tive mate­r­i­al: “This high­ly stretch­able paper allows wrin­kle-free pro­cess­ing from a roll and a detailed repro­duc­tion of small emboss­ing elements.”

Since 1963, the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Insti­tute dvi has pre­sent­ed the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Award in sev­er­al cat­e­gories. The inter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion takes place annu­al­ly under the patron­age of the Fed­er­al Min­is­ter of Eco­nom­ics and Ener­gy. 2020, entries from Aus­tria, Den­mark, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Switzer­land, Turkey and Den­mark were eval­u­at­ed in a total of ten cat­e­gories. The focus of this year’s com­pe­ti­tion was on the high­ly top­i­cal issues of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and digitalization.