Pro Carton Fact File – Module 1 – Packaging and Society

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CHOOSE FOLDING CARTONS CARTON & BOARD MAKING WHAT IS THE “VALUE CHAIN”? The “value chain” describes all those stakeholders involved in making and using packaging. They are: raw material providers, such as cartonboard manufacturers; converters, who print cartonboard and make folding cartons; FMCG and pharma companies, such as the manufacturers of food and other products, who use packaging, including folding cartons; and retailers and other distributers who provide packaged products to consumers. Other stakeholders are recyclers who secure collection and sorting of valuable post-consumer carton products as well as political/consumer and environmental organisations and interest groups. Cartons follow a circular economy model. The mills receive the post consumer cardboard back from the recyclers to produce new packaging. PACKAGING AND SOCIETY WHAT IS MEANT BY THE “PACKAGING INDUSTRY”? The packaging industry includes the manufacturers of packaging materials and the converters who print and make packaging components. It also includes the suppliers to the industry, the ink and adhesive manufacturers and machinery suppliers. Packaging, in terms of its value is one of the most important and leading manufacturing industries, because packaging is used to deliver food and other products to markets, customers and consumers. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PACKAGING MATERIAL? The main packaging materials are paper and board, plastics, metals, glass and wood. Paper and board have key roles in the future of packaging. They accounted for 35.7% of the worlds packaging consumption in 2016 (Smithers study). Paper and board are the only materials based on a naturally renewable raw material. Driven by consumer's increasing concern on the environment in recent months/years you see many flexible plastic materials being replaced by renewable carton packages. CARTONBOARD LIFE CYCLE THE CARTON PACKAGING FACT FILE All contents copyright © BPIF 2017.
CHOOSE FOLDING CARTONS CARTON & BOARD MAKING WHAT IS THE MAIN ISSUE TO CONSIDER WHEN SPECIFYING PACKAGING? The main issue in specifying packaging - in other words, choosing the most appropriate packaging for a product - is to ensure that it is “fit for purpose”. The packaging must fulfil its functions of protecting the product throughout the life of the product, ensuring a streamlined packaging operation, being efficient in storage and distribution, in providing product information, displaying features at the point of sale or use, as well as ensuring product and consumer safety, consumer convenience etc., as is appropriate to the specific product and its market. The type of packaging therefore differs from product to product. Manufacturers need to prioritise the functions they need the packaging to achieve in order to choose the most appropriate type of packaging. Packaging in Europe has to comply with “The Essential Requirements of the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, 94/62/EC”. Guidance in achieving these requirements is provided by CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation, in EN 13427: 2004, “Packaging - Requirements for the use of European Standards in the field of packaging and packaging waste”. This is supported by 5 Standards that refer respectively to Source Reduction (minimisation), Reuse, Material Recycling, Energy Recovery and Composting & Biodegradation. ISO Standard 14021:1999 provides further guidance on environmental labels and declarations. Europen has issued “Essential Requirements for Packaging in Europe - A Practical Guide to Using the CEN Standards”. (http://www.europen.be) Specifiers of packaging are well aware that packaging must be functionally adequate in providing protection, identification etc., that it must be cost effective and that it should never be excessive or deceptive. Increasingly Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies use Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to calculate the environmental impact of packaging material. This is taken from the sourcing of raw materials all the way through to the recycling process. In most cases packaging material from renewable raw materials following the circular economy model have an advantage over products with a fossil based origin. PACKAGING AND SOCIETY THE CARTON PACKAGING FACT FILE All contents copyright © BPIF 2017.
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