CEFLEX is a consortium of companies and associations representing the value chain of flexible packaging which aims to establish a collecting, sorting and reprocessing infrastructure throughout Europe by 2025.
It has developed dedicated ‘Designing for a Circular Economy Guidelines’ for flexible packaging.
“Sustainable packaging needs to be easily recyclable and processable at the same time,” said Matthias Klauser, project leader at Syntegon Technology. “With our long-standing expertise we can help to pave the way to a circular economy that leaves room for production efficiency.”
He added that the company wanted to support CEFLEX in reconciling sustainability and efficiency requirements, since not every sustainable packaging material is easy to process in an efficient manner.
“We see considerable potential for instance in mono-polyolefines and other monomaterials. At the same time, packaging and processing equipment providers will need to adapt their technologies to facilitate implementation of the guidelines. This includes making new materials processable on existing equipment, as well as developing new machine technologies that are suited for all kinds of materials and in the future.”