Sirane’s Earthpouch Duo

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The latest smart solution from Sirane is a pouch - with a window, that protects its contents just as compassionately as our Australian pouched-counterparts!! Sirane’s Earthpouch Duo is a unique, plastic-free pouch with a clear window, that is a stand -up, fully recyclable, pouch – a feature that more and more of Sirane’s customers have been asking for!

Peter Ralten, Sirane’s Chief Commercial Officer, told SPN: “The Earthpouch is a great packaging solution and a huge step forward when it comes to the sustainability and integrity of packaging pouches. It is paper-based, which means it can easily be recycled in the everyday paper-recycling stream.

In addition, some of our customers like to see their product clearly visible inside the pouch. Using paper, this proved to be quite a challenge, although since looking at all the options and following our rigorous programme of research and testing, we have now achieved this elusive goal! Our new ‘Earthpouch product is a paper-based pouch with an aqueous barrier coating, which allows the pouch to be heat-sealed. The Earthpouch Duo is the latest version of this pouch, which we have now made commercially available”.

SPN also learned that these latest Pouches from Sirane can be supplied either plain or custom printed. Accordingly, only water-based inks are used throughout the printing process with no solvents involved at any stage of production. Sirane also confirmed that windows can be specifically tailored to suit any shape or size and can be located both at the front and back of each pouch.

Sirane manufactures a range of bags & pouches, bio-degradable, bio-compostable, boards, and protective materials for a number of food, medical, industrial and horticultural applications. Sirane is based in the UK in Telford, Shropshire and recently opened an additional facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, offering pouch conversions.

For more informaton on Sirane visit: www.sirane.com/en/

Pouches – all sorted!

Recently, when tested, Mondi’s mono-material retort pouches evidence most effective when sorting during recycling. Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has carried out a series of stringent tests to prove its mono-material polypropylene (PP) pouches and rollstock material can be sorted more efficiently into their appropriate recycling streams.

Implemented in collaboration with the National Test Centre Circular Plastics (NTCP) in the Netherlands, these tests, simulating realistic packaging waste management conditions, were designed to determine the sortability of Mondi’s recyclable mono PP packaging.

Using state of the art technical set-ups, the tests were carried out on pre-made retort and standard pouches, spouted pouches, and top web and thermoformed semi-rigid tray material. These are made from mono PP-material and used for demanding applications that require a high barrier protection, such as wet pet food or processed meat

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