Winner of the Green Packaging Star Award

With a high­ly inno­v­a­tive pack­ag­ing con­cept, film man­u­fac­tur­er Süd­pack impressed the jury of the renowned Aus­tri­an indus­try Green Pack­ag­ing Star Award. The solu­tion is a per­fect sym­bio­sis of recy­cla­bil­i­ty and mate­r­i­al reduc­tion — and there­fore par­tic­u­lar­ly resource-friend­ly. Nev­er­the­less, it offers con­sis­tent­ly high per­for­mance with famil­iar func­tion­al­i­ties as well as an attrac­tive, prod­uct- and brand-appro­pri­ate design.

The list of awards the com­pa­ny is receiv­ing for its sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing con­cepts is get­ting longer and longer. As ear­ly as 2020, the Pure Line prod­uct fam­i­ly was award­ed the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Prize in the sus­tain­abil­i­ty cat­e­go­ry. In the same year, Süd­pack received the “Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Award” in the “Pre-Com­mer­cial­ized Inno­va­tion” cat­e­go­ry for a Zott moz­zarel­la pack­age that uses plas­tics from chem­i­cal recy­cling. This was fol­lowed in 2021 by the Ger­man Pack­ag­ing Award in the Eco­nom­ic Effi­cien­cy cat­e­go­ry and also the Gold Pack­ag­ing Award for the inno­v­a­tive SPQ print­ing tech­nol­o­gy, which con­tributes to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced ink and sol­vent con­sump­tion in pack­ag­ing printing.

The Green Pack­ag­ing Star Award has now been pre­sent­ed to a prod­uct that also helps to con­serve resources and thus meets the grow­ing demand for sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing con­cepts. The pack­ag­ing for Berg­er’s ham cold cuts, which are offered in eleven dif­fer­ent fla­vors, con­sists of a PP-based bot­tom film and a polypropy­lene-based top film. The recy­cla­bil­i­ty of the mate­ri­als has been rat­ed at least 95 per­cent by the inde­pen­dent Cyc­los Institute.

The ther­mo­formable Ecoterm bot­tom film is espe­cial­ly char­ac­ter­ized by its tem­per­a­ture resis­tance and is an ide­al choice in par­tic­u­lar for cooked ham that needs to be stored refrig­er­at­ed. In terms of seal­ing lay­ers and bar­ri­er func­tions, it has been opti­mal­ly designed to meet the require­ments at Berg­er.  As a fur­ther con­tri­bu­tion to greater sus­tain­abil­i­ty, Süd­pack achieves an extend­ed shelf life for the sen­si­tive prod­ucts with the inno­v­a­tive pack­ag­ing con­cept and thus also pre­vents food waste due to pre­ma­ture spoilage.

Last but not least, the new types of film are sig­nif­i­cant­ly lighter — while main­tain­ing opti­mum sta­bil­i­ty and per­for­mance as well as the usu­al high lev­el of con­ve­nience for the con­sumer. Over­all, the ham spe­cial­ist can save around 24 tons of plas­tic per year by switch­ing to the new pack­ag­ing con­cept. Anoth­er advan­tage is that the low weight has a pos­i­tive effect on the CO2 bal­ance along the entire logis­tics chain. And: the mate­ri­als can be processed on con­ven­tion­al pack­ag­ing lines with­out any problems.

“We are cur­rent­ly expe­ri­enc­ing very strong demand for our prod­ucts from our roadmap for sus­tain­able film solu­tions, which includes solu­tions in the area of resource con­ser­va­tion, recy­cling, and for clos­ing loops. So every new project we can suc­cess­ful­ly imple­ment for a cus­tomer helps to make the pack­ag­ing world more sustainable.”

- Vales­ka Haux, VP Strate­gic Marketing

The Green Pack­ag­ing Star Award was pre­sent­ed to rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the com­pa­ny and Berg­er Schinken at the “Aus­tri­an Pack­ag­ing Day 2021” at MAK, the Muse­um of Applied Arts in Vien­na, on Octo­ber 28.