POLIPAKS, A STAR IN THE FILM INDUSTRY

Monday, May 24, 2021 by Polipaks

Polipaks are a flexible packaging manufacturer that are known for both ready-made bags and pouches. However, printed film has also played a leading role in their offering for customers that form packaging on their own manufacturing line machines. Within this offer are various types of Laminated Films, High Barrier Films, Bag in box films, top and bottom films, as well as fully recyclable options. These options include Mono PE films, MDO films and PP films which are all used for designing sustainable packaging.

Being a responsible manufacturer of plastics Polipaks take the environment and sustainability issues very seriously. Polipaks uphold several policies and technological systems aimed at minimization of the ecological impact before, during and after the production process. As part of the sustainable film range, Polipaks can produce high barrier co-extruded films with up to 9-layers, designed in compliance with the standards for food industry with BRC certification at AA level.

Protect & Enhance Your Product

For flexible packaging that offers optimal shelf-life, look no further than Polipaks High Barrier Films. These films offer many advantages to the product inside the packaging and the overall brand impact.

Due to the advanced barrier properties that these films provide they are excellent at preserving and protecting perishable goods such as foods, petfood, beverages, and hygiene products. This results in prolonged shelf life, protecting packaging from fat from inside to external layers, preserves aromas and preserves product consistency. With high oxygen and moisture barrier properties some products odours can also be kept to a minimum which reduces unwanted smells from packing to the consumer’s home.

High Barrier Films hold the same benefits to ready-made bags. Firstly, film can be laminated together with various type of other film structures providing differing appearance depending on customer or product needs. High barrier films provide superior properties with the same tailor- made design options available as ready-made pouches. Polipaks advantage of High barrier films is the fact that all the manufacturing process occurs at the full cycle 35,000m2 production facility in Riga. This starts with granulation process to extrusion of films, printing, lamination, slitting and converting. There is an inhouse laboratory, quality assurance department, and a pre-press department where artwork development is conducted. High-quality printing plates are produced to provide superior artwork application to packaging during the FLEXO HD print process.

Sustainable Films in Demand

As a result of increasing desire to become more environmentally friendly, demand for mono structure plastics has been growing as this material structure can be recycled as part of the circular economy. This trend has been driven by consumers and retailers in markets across Europe with countries such as the UK being one of the most environmentally conscious. As well as this, High Barrier Films are becoming more popular due to an increasing desire to protect products inside packs more effectively providing reduction of food waste.

Polipaks are specialists in mono and multilayer extrusion with blown extrusion lines ranging from 1 to 9 layers, providing high barrier, seal, reclosable, peal, antifog, antistatic and other mechanical and chemical properties within their film range. Modern co-ex blown film extrusion lines with various options and over two decades of extrusion experience allows Polipaks to provide a wide database of in-house designed extrusion recipes. This results in a large variety of packaging products for food and non-food industries that can be utilised. Therefore, Polipaks have all the capabilities to meet many industry requirements whilst providing a recyclable packaging solution.

High Barrier Films, High Capacity

Due to the Polipaks state-of-the-art 35,000m2 production facility and the technology within, Polipaks have high production capacity for recyclable High Barrier Film products which are always tailored to customer’s needs.

If you are reviewing your packaging film requirements and you would like to consider Polipaks, please contact sales@polipaks.com for a free consultation and to get wheels in motion to secure your product space.

For more general information, please visit www.polipaks.com.


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