Thermoforming specialist Plastique is commencing the manufacture of custom designed moulded pulp packaging using ‘Cure-In-The-Mould’ technology, under the name Fibrepak, a sub-brand of Plastique.
To be manufactured at Plastique’s premises in Poznan, western Poland, the process used for Fibrepak – known as ‘thermoformed fibre’ or ‘pulp thermoforming’ – is said to produce the highest quality, most well defined, smooth surfaced thin walled pulp products available.
According to the UK-based company, Fibrepak clients are able to choose from a number of recyclable/compostable packaging material options, which can be coloured and blended using food safe pigment dyes to provide a variety of finishes.
These material options include a range of sustainable crop fibres and virgin pulp, all of which are well suited to the thermoforming process.
“Our pulp products, which are sturdy and strong, can be ovenable and freezer safe, dependent upon material choice,” the company says.
Plastique, well-known for its innovation in thermoformed rigid plastic products, has also added a new thermoformed paper-based packaging concept, PaperForm, to its repertoire.
Composed with FSC-certified sustainable paper (FibreForm from BillerudKorsnäs) and a thermoplastic such as rPET or PE or biodegradable option such as Bio=X, PaperForm can be formed to create soft, sculptural, shallow packs that bring a naturally tactile quality to products or brands.
“A PaperForm tray can be pre-printed, film lidded, heat sealed to itself as a clampack or to conventional rigid thermoplastic packaging; to create a limitless variety of unique packaging presentations at POS,” Plastique says.
PaperForm trays are suitable for packaging solutions in both the MAP barrier food and non-food sectors, and printable with full colour and text options (flexo, up to 10 colours, double sided).
PaperForm tray packaging solutions include: thermoformed shallow trays; vac formed blister packs; thermoformed clamshell hinged packs; formed window packs.
A leading European thermoformer, operating from bases in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and Nottingham in the UK, Plastique has 34 years’ experience in designing and manufacturing thermoformed packaging and components for many of the world’s leading brands and organisations.
