Industry project: recyclable food packaging films – Reflex

Plastic packaging in particular should be designed to be recyclable and sustainable. For many food products, there are still no packaging solutions on the market that adequately fulfil both requirements. There is a particular need for action in the area of flexible multilayer packaging: Here, several layers of material combined into films (mainly polymers, paper and aluminium) enable optimised product protection, but at the same time these combinations severely limit mechanical recyclability. In order to maintain the advantages of flexible multilayer packaging, such as optimised product protection and low packaging weight, while at the same time implementing mechanical recyclability, innovative coatings on mono-polyolefin films are being pursued as a solution.