50The current packagingOuter sidePlasticPlasticFood sideFood side15Comparison of the stabbing strength (N/15mm width)13N10The brand-new paperpackagingThe new packagingOuter sideFunctional plastic Food sideFood side9NThe conventional plasticpackagingPaperPlastic5NGeneral paperpackagingbags like “water may get in when we touch the paper bag with a wet hand”, “the content may absorb moisture and clump in”, etc. To tackle these problems, the cor-porate has carried out as many as 20 demonstration tests using 19 available options in total. They eventually came up with an idea of adding functional resin in the inner side of the paper as pinhole-resistance and vapor barrier layer so the content won’t absorb wa-ter or moisture. Regarding pinhole-re-sistance, the new material is 1.4 times more durable than the current plastic one and 2.6 times stronger than other general paper packaging. As a layer of functional resin is added on the current sealable film on the inner side, the pa-per package is as heat resistant as the portation process as the printing is merely done on the surface.“It’s a process of trials and errors,” commented Ms. Miho Higuchi from the Package Design Group of the Product Development Centre of the Food Re-search Institute, Food Business De-partment. “We understand that flexog-raphy printing works the best on paper while only a very, very small number of our partners possess such kind of printer to provide the technology. We hence opted for rotogravure this time. Thanks for the effort from our suppliers who tried their best to perfect the pa-per design, the printing was a miracle. As for the friction during transport, we looked into the reviews of different pa-per types and coating agents so as to make sure ink won’t scratch off under normal logistic,” she rejoiced.“It saves up a huge amount of ma-terial but it stands- so we know it’s the one, the paper package functions as excellent as the plastic package bag,” says Ms. Higuchi.Nonetheless, conventional filling packaging machines had never used paper and had many issues. “The tri-angular seals of the ‘penguin’ was es-Layer structure of the current packaging and the new paper packaging A comparison of the stabbing strength of the current and the new paper packaging17Source- Ajinomoto Co., Inc.about 1.4 timescurrent one. The layer structure is, thus, paper, functional resin, then sealable film with over 50% of paper in total.The adoption of the new package brings about 34% reduction of the cur-rent plastic usage (when compared with the current plastic package), so 12 tons of plastic wastes is saved in a year (when compared with 2020).Rotogravure on the paper surfacePackage printing affects how con-sumers perceive the product, which is the very concerns of every corpo-rate. Ajinomoto adopts rotogravure as general paper printing on package film might easily blur out. Ink may scratch off when the products come into con-tact with other materials in the trans-Source- Ajinomoto Co., Inc.about 2.6 timesUnique pouch with triangular “legs” to standThe same “wide top bag” design was successfully kept. The shape is like no other general standing pouches that at the lower external side of the pillow-shape package bag is folded as “legs” to stand alone. They named the package “penguin” for its lovely appearance. The packaging pouch, in fact, only consumes a small amount of material when compared with other standing pouches or cassette pouches come with a gusset- it saves our re-sources.Selecting the best packaging material from 19 options for quality preservation
元のページ ../index.html#19