In the European market, where Hot-melt coating on the glue space using the ZAP systemTatsuhiko Okamoto, general man-ager of the Food Business Department, commented, “Many global brand own-ers have set goals to achieve sustain-ability by 2025, but the current prog-ress rate is projected to be about 65%, which is a difficult situation to achieve. However, we expect to achieve our goal for packaging machines for the food industry.”To begin with, the term “sustain-able” has a different meaning between Japan and Europe. “In Japan, sustain-able means reducing plastic in many cases, but in Europe, it is just one word: recycling. In Japan, more and more products are being packaged in so-called “paper-plastic” packag-ing, in which paper accounts for more than 50% by weight. Some products that use biomass plastics have also appeared, but they are not used from the standpoint of recycling. In Europe, on the other hand, paper is considered recyclable. For example, Nestlé is pro-moting the use of recyclable paper for the wrapping paper of its “YES!” choc-olate bar, launched overseas in 2019, and its efforts to reduce plastic for the paper used in the outer bags of its “KitKat” chocolate bars sold in Japan,” said Mr. Okamoto.By the way, YES! is a product that is packaged with a modified Syntegon Technology horizontal pillow packag-ing machine, which uses recyclable barrier-coated paper as the primary packaging. “Smarties,” another Nestlé product, is also packaged with paper instead of film. The modification of the packaging machine is not extensive, and was achieved by simply installing the company’s “paper-ON-form” parts.Hot-melt packaging with almost 100% paper materialSeiichiro Takahashi, sales manager of the Food Business Department, ex-plains that the company’s packaging machines have their origins in paper packaging. “While Japanese pack-aging machines started with plastic film in the 1950s, we have a long his-SVE series vertical pillow packaging machine with ZAP module on top31the shift to sustainable pack-aging materials is accelerating, recyclable paper packaging is be-ginning to be used for food and other product packaging, and is increasingly seen in Japan as well. German packaging machine man-ufacturer Syntegon Technology’s vertical pillow packaging machine “SVE” series is capable of pro-cessing paper, which is attracting a lot of attention, as well as mono-plastic packaging made from a single resin. The company has in-stalled a demonstration machine at its Competence Center Japan and Vision Technology in Saitama Prefecture, and is holding an event to promote the machine to the Japanese market and to provide a venue for co-creation with food manufacturers, converters, brand owners, and other sectors in order to realize sustainable packaging.Packaging machinery for the food industry to enable the use of sustainable packaging materials by 2025Syntegon Technology has set a goal to enable the use of sustainable packag-ing materials such as paper and mono material plastic in all of the company’s packaging machinery for the food in-dustry, both new and existing ma-chines, by 2025.Syntegon TechnologyVertical Pillow Packaging Machine ‘SVE’ Series corresponds to paper /monoplastic packaging
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