Veriplast Solutions is delighted to congratulate its partner Unilever on the winning of a 2008 Deutscher Verpackungs Preis (German Packaging Award ) and a WorldStar Packaging Award: “We are particularly satisfied that one of our key customers has won such a prestigious award with one of our recently introduced innovation concept; that testifies to the development capacity of our Group”, declared Thierry Tomasov, Veriplast Solutions’ CEO.
The winning Unilever 500 g Rama margarine tub uses Veriplast’s super-light injection moulding technology (SLIM). The SLIM concept has been developed at Veriplast Solutions’ Ravensburg facility in Germany. It combines the unique Mucell ® simultaneous nitrogen and plastic injection technique, a Veriplast Solutions exclusive in Europe, and the Extra Slim Label, an innovative down-gauged in-mould label (IML). Extra Slim Label is produced at Veriplast Decorative Solutions in Angoulême, France.
On one hand, the SLIM ® technology involves pressurised gas expanding when the pressure is released during the injection moulding process. The gas replaces its equivalent volume of plastic, resulting in a reduction of up to 10% in packaging weight without any perceptible difference in the final tub quality.
On the other hand, the Extra Slim Label used in this tub is significantly thinner than the market standard and provides an additional environmental benefit by reducing the CO2 footprint by 30% compared to standard labels.
Those two exclusive Veriplast Solutions’ innovations combined in the unique SLIM concept provide outstanding benefits in terms of packaging weight reduction and carbon footprint optimisation.
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