With decades of experience in both R&D and Manufacturing, we’ve come to be the experts in developing innovative mono-material PE and manufacturing MDO PE films at scale for better and recyclable flexible packaging.
Today, consumers, brands, and retailers expect packaging that are both sustainable and can preserve products. To meet these seemingly conflicting requirements, converters are therefore forced to use laminates made from various polymer types. The heterogeneous composition of these packages, however, makes them unrecyclable.
The use of the Machine Direction Orientation (MDO) technique with our innovative mono-oriented PE (MOPE) improves key properties of the laminate film including better stiffness, higher durability, excellent barrier for moisture and aroma, optical clarity, lighter packaging, and a reduction in the structure gauge.
PET films are optimal for flexible packaging applications and have existed for decades. Polysack’s Pack 'N' Cycle films are the alternative solution to traditional PET print films. Once laminated to PE sealant webs, they create a true mono-material PE structures that can be recycled. Shifting to a recyclable substitute is challenging; therefore, in the last several years Polysack prioritized the development of best in class MOPE films to match PET properties.
All packaging players have put 2025 as the target year for shifting to sustainable packaging. Governments are finalizing regulations and plastic fees to incentivize investments in recycling capacity. Agile industry stakeholders are capturing the business opportunity to move to mono-material packaging and build their future growth.
“Today, consumers demand sustainable packaging. While the conservative flexible packaging industry is trying to figure out its way to comply with this market demand, our customers are already ahead of the market, utilizing our Pack 'N' Cycle films to shift existing soft packaging to recyclable. The converters adopting this change will attain more business opportunities and this will lead the shift in the industry."
