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Sustainable packaging solutions require a sustainable packaging strategy.

ROVEMA is looking towards the future. It might be easy for somepackaging machine buildersto cheer from the sidelines and leave all of the work to the film suppliers and packaged good producers.

But we believe it's never been more important to do our part in helping our markets pursue sustainability in packaging. With our solutions, a sustainable packaging strategy is possible for our customers through the use of our innovative technologies that allow them to reduce material usage, scrap rate, and overall input costs.

ROVEMA is intentional about building equipment with technologies that enable and empower packaged good producers to userenewable packaging materials, reduce energy consumption and optimize package volumes. Your packaging machinery has the potential to have rippling positive effects throughout your supply chain to help you excel in sustainability scorecard assessments and satisfy your customers.

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Supply Chain Ripple Effect Of The Right Solution

Your packaging should be attractive and compelling at the point of sale, with a package quality that satisfies your customers and keeps them coming back for more. Not only doROVEMA vertical form fill and seal machineshelp you check this box, but they also have cascading effects on your supply chain efficiency. Our filling and sealing technologies allow customers to use up to 15% less packaging materials compared to bagging the same net weight of product on competitor machinery.

And by using less packaging and having less void space in each unit, that means up to 8 % smaller package and transport volumes as well, allowing many to fit more product on each freight load.

VFFS Machines Support Sustainable Packaging Films

There are a handful of tactics we take to ensure the success of a customers' sustainable packaging initiative. Ourpatented sealing technology Premium Seal®produces the strongest, safest package seals in the industry and the flexibility of the sealing parameters allows producers to confidently run:

  • Recyclable Films
  • Thinner Films
  • Biodegradable and compostable packaging materials
  • Paper as FSC certified packaging material
  • Biopolymers

This sealing technology also allows customers to use narrower vertical and horizontal seals and reduce the headspace in the package. The seal jaws on the BVC family ofVFFS machineshave a product stripping feature that helps to make the product more compact before sealing.

Safe Sustainable Packaging = Safe Food

At the end of the day,flexible package durability and safetyare our number one priority when evaluatingsustainable filmsand engineering our machines to run them. In our experience, sustainable packaging strategies fail when the packages can't offer the same seal integrity, barrier properties, and shelf life, resulting in more product loss through the supply chain. Product quality must be protected, especially for perishables.

Maintaining a product's freshness throughout its lifecycle after production, combined with modern and efficient packaging processes, drastically reduces product loss and saves on the packaging material resources. Plus, the addedreclosure features like zippers, aid to keep the product fresh once initially opened, helping consumers to prevent food waste.

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Designing Machines for Low Energy Consumption

We understand that at the end of the day, the largest contributors to your sustainable packaging efforts revolve around cutting material usage, reducing product loss, using sustainable materials, and increasing freighting efficiency. Your packaging machinery doesn't have the same impact on your utility bills as other factors like A/C and lighting but that doesn't mean that incremental packaging machinery utility savings aren't worth discussing as they add up to a large impact over the full life of your machinery.

ROVEMA equipment is built with green technologies such as:

  • Efficient drives and low-loss transmissions
  • Energy-optimized movements
  • Reduced mass
  • Energy recovery systems
  • Up to 35 % less air and power consumption
  • Sealing with up to 25 % less energy

Options To Help CPG Manufacturers Keep Up With Consumer Expectations

Paper Packaging Options for Food Products

For years we've helped companiesexperimentand innovatewithVFFS materials and package options. Lately, we've received more requests for packaging with paper.

Rovema Paper Packaging for VFFS

Manufacturers have to balance production realities against evolving consumer expectations, and paper packaging may help to achieve that.

This white paper covers common questions including:

  • Sustainable definitions including biodegradable and compostable
  • Paper packaging considerations
  • Retrofitting VFFS machines to run paper
  • Highlight shelf ready packaging success stories

Submit the form on the right to download a complimentary e-book.

Flexible Liquid Packaging Solutions and Overall Material Reduction

In the past,packaging capabilities for liquid products were limited to rigid materialslike glass, high-density polyethylene plastics, and metal. Only in recent years have flexible packaging technologies made it possible for producers in theliquid packagingspace to switch to liquid pouches reliably, and it's taking this industry by storm because of huge cost saving benefits like:

  • 75% packaging savings when switching from cans to flexible pouches
  • Drastically reduce production floor space needed when using VFFS machines instead of canning or jarring lines.
  • Drastically reduce freight costs both to the plant as empties and when shipping to retailers, often allowing you to get substantially more finished product on a freight load.

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