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Organised by Aimplas and Ainia, Valencia received of the 17 to 19 April, the international appointment more important of the year in alimentary container

MeetingPack Presents the last world-wide tendencies in container barrier

Editorial Interempresas22/04/2013

The capital of Turia was the place chosen by Aimplas and Ainia, inside his strategic alliance to offer global solutions to industries of the plastic, packs and packaging, alimentary and affine, to celebrate MeetingPack, an appointment that gathered during three days to the most stood out international experts in matter of alimentary plastic container. Companies world-wide referents in the sector contributed his 'know how' and presented his novelties and lines of work centred in material barrier and systems of packaging.

Containers that trap the oxygen, with functional additives, flexible and more resistant

International experts indicated during MeetingPack that in some surroundings where the market and the consumer sue that the foods last more and in better conditions, the new typologies of this type of containers allow to improve of form very important the durability, quality and conservation of the products.

In this sense, for foods very sensitive to the deterioration by the performance of the oxygen, as it can be the beer, a plastic container barrier with absorbers of oxygen can prolong his useful life between 13 and 21 weeks more than some containers of plastic PET that do not contain this type of properties, in which his estimate is from among two and three weeks.

For foods very sensitive to the deterioration by the performance of the oxygen, a plastic container barrier with absorbers of oxygen can prolong his useful life between 13 and 21 weeks

During the seguda day, devoted specifically to this matter, several companies presented his last solutions in raw materials for the production of plastic containers; in containers obtained by technologies ISBM, EBM and injection; and novelties in films and plates multicapas and trays termoformadas.

The company UBE presented a new flexible container more resistant that, besides, contains properties barrier to gases like the oxygen. In concrete, the container is composed by plastic material more resistant, able to adapt perfectly to the products, preferably in those that contain surfaces punzantes as it can be bones, for example, the chicken or the costillar. It treats of foods, that can rasgar the container, losing like this his function, diminishing his useful life and affecting to his properties. The container, incorporates less quantity of material, has the capacity to pull with ease with a lower risk of break awarding, besides, a better appearance to the product.

The multinational Dow Chemical announced the development of a material that allows to improve the sealed of the container, even in adverse conditions that could produce . Of this way, guarantees his hermeticidad for the conservation of the product, avoiding escapes by the sides, the most sensitive zones of the containers.

The company APPE Iberia carried to MeetingPack a new system for containers of drunk type PET. It treats of a technology that incorporates in the bottle a cap that issues hydrogen and a catalyst. When the oxygen tries to penetrate through the walls of the container, the system reacts turning it into water in very little quantity, without altering the product.

The Japanese company Nippon Gohsei Europe showed in this day the new developments that has attained of the material EVOH for applications of sterilisation, that allow to improve the properties barrier to the gases for products of long useful life, especially the ready for childish foods, purees, etc. Besides, improve the transparency of the container, attaining a better presentation of the product. Under this innovation are attaining significant advances in the resistance of this type of material, by what estimates that they can approach to the characteristics of the containers of glass or metal for this type of product of long length.

By his part, the multinational Dupont presented a new material that improves even more the provision of another material barrier as they can be the EVOH or the polyamide. When incorporating it, attains an elder procesabilidad, transparency, barrier and resistance to the humidity.

Spain will explain in 2014 with his first plants authorised by the EU to produce material recycled allocated to alimentary container

Spain has done the duties in matter of recycled and like this put of self-evident in the first of the days of MeetingPack 2013. According to the data contributed by the representative of Ecoembes, Mercedes Gómez Paniagua, in 2012 reached a tax of recycled of 70%, with which surpass widely the aims demanded by the European Union of 55%. In the case of the plastic container, the figures are similar, since according to data of plastics Europe, Spain recycles 33% of these containers, a data very above the aim of 22,5%. However, there are other countries of the zone euro that have taken the forward in the valorisation of this waste and that already does years that are using them for the manufacture of alimentary containers.

With the valid rule to national level, in the actuality, the industry envasadora only can buy material recycled in Spain for the manufacture of containers of water and, in the short term, drunk carbonatadas, the rest of materials for other applications would have to buy in European countries authorised. Of this form, is losing an important opportunity of business for the Spanish companies.

In this sense, as it has advanced Luigi Rossi, consultor external of Keller and Heckman and one of the most notable figures to international level in the field of the relative legislation to the materials in contact with foods, this situation of disequilibrium will finish in 2014. That will be the year in which the European Union regulate the processes of decontamination that have to incorporate the plants recicladoras of any country of the EU to be able to produce apt recycled plastic for the manufacture of alimentary containers.

At present, they exist in Spain something more than a hundred of companies recicladoras of plastic, of which 25% find in the Valencian Community. As it explains Eva Verdejo, manager of the Department of Sustainability and Industrial Valorisation of Aimplas, “the new permissions will suppose an opportunity of business for these companies that would compensate the investments that would have to do in the adaptation of his machinery and processes for the production of the new material recycled”.

The plastic clears doubts on his hygiene for the alimentary use

In spite of being subjected to the controls and regulations more demanding in his utilisation in contact with foods, the plastic also is object of debate constantly in front of the public opinion. This is due to that the alimentary hygiene is one of the main worries of the consumers, like this indicate it the data of the Eurobarómetro presented in MeetingPack 2013 by the representative of the Centre of Technology of Products of Nestlé, Carlos de la Cruz García. According to these data, 60% of the European respondents is concerned by the substances contained in the materials in contact with the foods, and 20% of these consumers shows very concerned by the possible chemical pollution of these.

But the materials in contact with foods are not alone those that contain them, also those that employ during his processed and those that use for his consumption. And of all they the plastic is the one who is subjected to greater controls and legal regulations in the actuality, according to explicaó Luigi Rossi, that of this form wanted to clear any type of doubts on the subject.