Why is aluminium foil great for packaging?

Let’s look at it’s highly unique properties It provides absolute barrier

Essential Specifi c for retort pouch – Good mechanical allowing Prolongs It can easily be machinability properties e.g. sterilization shelf sorted and and advanced “push-through” life for a recycled aft er speeds for Acts as gatekeeper – variety of use sealing perishable keeps good things in goods and bad things out

It can easily be It is heat formed and stays resistant and Easy to print, Its deadfold strong conducts heat laminate, property coextrude, saves Preserves Eff ective lacquer adhesives nutritional protection value, at very low taste and thickness consistency All advantages of aluminium material – It provides operational at low thickness excellence during conversion and fi lling

Also, it helps to Even very low foil save resources thicknesses (0.006mm and less) allow full barrier 1/3 of food produced Foil packs help to Less material used and globally is never therefore less waste generated eaten – representing a prevent food waste Aluminium foil enables major wastage of lightweight Less energy used for resources and unnecessary transport – whether the greenhouse gas emissions high-barrier packs packaging is fi lled or empty

High barrier allows for long life conservation without refrigeration, thus saving energy Enables the amount of other Aluminium foil’s absolute barrier preserves associated materials in the valuable goods and prevents them from pack to be minimized. The being lost. It provides a packaging option same barrier functionality without Lightweight foil for extended shelf-life, customized aluminium foil would require packaging saves material portion packs, thus reducing risks signifi cantly more material of food waste at the retail and consumer and energy resources level

Only 1.5g of aluminium foil in an aseptic beverage carton Outstanding low packaging- enable the perfect preservation of Aluminium foil saves much more to-product ratio (5 to 10 times 1 litre of milk for months resources than it consumes lower than rigid alternatives)

And it is fi t for circular economy Many initiatives of the First, aluminium foil industry to improve packaging must be its recycling Packages with aluminium properly collected as major component can be easily recycled via the regular aluminium recycling stream No successful recycling without appropriate collection The aluminium industry established a European wide For laminates with aluminium When collected, foil packaging can easily network of national aluminium packaging foil, pyrolysis can be used to be separated in a sorting centre by recycling organisations to improve the recycling of recover the aluminium using eddy current separators and even aluminium packaging including aluminium foil more advanced technologies In waste to energy operations aluminium foil Key stakeholders of the entire fl exible packaging value can be partially recovered from the Proper collection also prevents packaging chain initiated the CEFLEX project to improve the end- bottom ashes and then recycled from leaking into the environment of-life-performance of all fl exible packaging incl. composite aluminium foil applications Aluminium as material can be recycled Continuous improvement without loss of quality and reused of collection, separation Technologies like delamination and chemical in new aluminium products. and recycling technologies recycling are under development helping to “separate” 75% of all aluminium ever will increase the recycling rates the aluminium foil from composite packaging for recycling produced is still in use of aluminium foil Aluminium packaging recycling rate in 60+ Europe exceeds already 60% Aluminium foil can be recycled And its overall resource eff iciency supports a circular economy beyond just recycling!