REDUCEFOR A BETTER PLANET USEPROGRAM

REDUCEFOR A BETTERPLANET USE

INTRAMA is a Bulgarian-German company with over 25 years of experience in providing complete pack-aging solutions for the food industry. INTRAMA is member of the global UN initiative SAVE FOOD which have the intention to reduce the waste of food. Through its multi-layer barrier packaging solutions, INTRAMA is providing its contribution to reducing food waste globally. As the biggest producer of multi-layer barrier packing in Bulgaria and as a responsible company with an active position on environment protection, INTRAMA presents its sustainability program REDUCE FOR A BETTER PLANET USE. The program is a result of intensive research and anal-ysis of the market trends, customer needs and of the influence of political, economic, socio-cultural, tech-nological, legal and environmental factors.

The program long-term objectives are increasing the efficiency of the multi-layer barrier packaging by reducing the raw materials being used. This way, INTRAMA simultaneously reduces the volume of food waste and decreases the environmental impact of its flexible packaging.

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GOALS

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Eco-friendly

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Cost-effective

The final target set for REDUCE FOR A BETTER PLANET USE is to work on a continuous process to implement the program successively at all customers of INTRAMA. Moreover, latest innovations of production technology should continuously have influence on the program REDUCE FOR A BETTER PLANET USE.

The instrumentarium for achieving the goals of REDUCE FOR A BETTER PLANET USE program is a consequence of INTRAMA's long experience in providing complete packaging solutions for the food industry.

The process of engineering state of the art flexible packaging films for our program REDUCE FOR A BETTER PLANET USE has gone through a number of stages. The actual result is the thinnest 11-layer high-barrier film in the world for packaging with traysealers and flowpack machines.

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In the short term REDUCE FOR A BETTER PLANET USE supports our customers to build up a more

sustainable and competitive product portfolio in the context of the sustainability goals defined by

the EU for a circular economy and waste reduction.

The tinnesthigh-barrier film

in the worldfor traysealersand flowpack

machines

REDUCEFOR A BETTERPLANET USE

INTRAMA's ultra-thin 35 microns film is manufactured with a variety of functionalities and consistent prod-

uct quality. Depending on the requirements of prod-uct packed and the packaging technology, it can be

with anti-fog for excellent product presentation, with hot-tack for fast speed machines, with low or high friction coefficient for excellent packaging process.

Top In HB 35 is suitable for:

Products:

Applications:

Meat

Dairy

Fish

Bakery

Nuts

Coffee

Pasta

Spices

Non-food

Confectionary Cereals

Transport packagingVacuum packagingMAP packaging

When packaging with Thermoforming line, the developed film is based on hundreds of tests of films with thermo-forming machines from different manu-facturers in a real working environment.

The result is reducing the thickness of the top films for thermoform-ing with medium gas barrier to the necessary minimum of 60 microns in order to guarantee the barrier properties of the pack-aging and the safety of the product packed.

Due to the wide variety of the products and the strict individuality of the shape, type, size and requirements of the prod-uct packed, our bottom films for thermo-forming machines are tailor-made for

each project. However, we use only top-quality raw material, test our bottom films’s mechanical properties on a daily bases at our laboratory. Also for bottom films we have carried out hundreds of tests on thermoforming machines by different manufacturers in real working environment. This has allowed us to reduce the thick-ness of the currently used bottom film by 5.5% and guarantee the same shelf life and excellent quality of the package.

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Films for traysealers

Used package sizes for calculations: 227 mm / 178 mm

Film type Oxygenbarrier

OTR

Used rawmaterial for1 package

in grams

Top In L HB 60 < 10 2.46

42.6%

406

67.5%

100% 0%Top In L HB 45 < 10 1.86 24% 535 31.8% 100% 0%

Top In L HB 35 < 10 1.41 680 100% 0%Upon

customerrequest

Reductionof used raw

materialin %

Numberof packages

from1 kg rawmaterial

Increment in the

number of packages

in %

Recy-clability

Used recycled

raw material

in %

Possible date for replace-

ment

Films for thermoforming line

Top films for thermoforming line

Bottom films for thermoforming lineReduction in the thickness of the currently used bottom film by 5.5% and guarantee same shelf life and excellent quality of the package.

Used package sizes for calculations: 500 mm / 200 mm

Film type Oxygenbarrier

OTR

Used rawmaterial for1 package

in grams

Flow In HB HT 75 < 10 7.5

53.3%

132 100% 0%Flow In HB HT 45 < 10 4.6 38.7% 216

108%

63.6% 100% 0%

Flow In HB HT 35 < 10 3.5 274 100% 0%Upon

customerrequest

Reductionof used raw

materialin %

Numberof packages

from1 kg rawmaterial

Increment in the

number of packages

in %

Recy-clability

Used recycled

raw material

in %

Possible date for replace-

ment

Films for Flowpack Used package sizes for calculations: 110 mm / 110 mm

Film type Oxygenbarrier

OTR

Used rawmaterial for1 package

in grams

Top In MB 120 < 35 1.42 704 100% 0%Top In MB 90 < 35 1.06 939 100% 0%Top In L MB 75 W < 35 0.97

25.3%31.7%

50%

1028

100.1%

33.4%46% 100% 0%

Top In MB 60 < 35 0.71 1409 100% 0%Upon

customerrequest

Reductionof used raw

materialin %

Numberof packages

from1 kg rawmaterial

Increment in the

number of packages

in %

Recy-clability

Used recycled

raw material

in %

Possible date for replace-

ment

RESULTSThe successful implementation of REDUCE FOR A

BETTER PLANET USE has vast potential to reduce the ecological footprint of the barrier multilayer packaging in

both directions – production as well as consumption.

For packaging with traysealer

992 kg less raw material per 1 million packages when replacing 60 microns film with the ultra-thin Top In L HB 35

274 000 pcs. more packages out of 1000 kg raw material when replacing60 microns films with the ultra-thin Top In L HB 35

Same shelf life

Cost-effective packaging process with a smaller environmental footprint

kg

Safe

For packaging with thermoforming line (top film)

355 kg less raw material per 1 million packages when replacing 90 microns film with the specially designed 60 microns film Top In MB 60

470 000 pcs. more packages out of 1000 kg raw material when replacing90 microns film with the specially designed 60 microns film Top In MB 60

Same shelf life

Cost-effective packaging process with a smaller environmental footprint

kg

Safe

For packaging with flowpack

3926 kg less raw material per 1 million packages when replacing 75 micron film with the ultra-thin Flow In HB 35

142 000 pcs. more packages out of 1000 kg raw material when replacing75 microns film with the ultra-thin Flow In HB 35

Same shelf life

Cost-effective packaging process with a smaller environmental footprint

kg

Safe

REDUCEFOR A BETTERPLANET USE

For packaging with thermoforming line (bottom film)

Reduction in the thickness of the currently used bottom film by 5.5%

Same shelf life

Cost-effective packaging process with a smaller environmental footprint

Safe

Increasing the efficiency of the packaging process directly affects the environment.The state of the environment directly affects the quality of our life.

REDUCEFOR A BETTERPLANET USE

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