Highlight on Toray’s solution to reduce plastic quantity without compromising performances of packaging

Innovation and sustainability have always been Toray’s main focus. Toray aspires to offer the best quality to its customers and is regularly aiming to decrease the environmental impact of our films.

Indeed, Toray is aware of the impact of PET film and always try to find solutions to decrease it. In an other hand, PET film is a film that is difficult to replace. Indeed, in laminated packaging, PET film has many advantages:

• Thermal resistance
• Mechanical proprieties
• Perforation resistance
• Print quality

Today, the role of Toray is to propose to its customers solutions by reducing the plastic quantity but without compromising performances and proprieties of the packaging.

Toray Films Europe: Expert of thin gages

To minimize impact of PET film, Toray Films Europe has worked on the development of thin gages. We offer a strong and professional expertise concerning thin gages, up to 4µm, keeping technical performances and high level conversion. By being capable of producing lower thicknesses, TFE is offering to its customers films which are consistent in quality without compromising in performance.

The thickness reduction of our PET films allows, in fact, many advantages.

Performance of Toray’s thin gages

Waste reduction

With thinner thicknesses, less material is used during the manufacturing process, allowing, thus, a major waste reduction. The final product is, so, less expensive and more sustainable.

Recycling

The high expertise of Toray Films Europe allows the PET film to be thin enough that it reduces the impact during recycling.

Mosh Moah

Demand for recycled packaging is ever increasing. But after migration scandals revealing the presence of mineral oils in food (mutagenic & carcinogenic), the market requests a strong regulation concerning food safety with a strong engagement from all the actors to minimize actively the food contamination with MOSH and MOAH.

Our thin gages range

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