Sustainable Innovation

The following insights provide you with real actions that AMB are taking in our pledges to sustainability. Underpinned by innovation.

Discover how we are progressing on our sustainability journey

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Downgauging - less is more

  • Testing of the existing pack to establish areas of improvement.
  • Develop new pack geometry to enable a reduction in the film gauge.
  • Reduce the new plastic packaging tax burden.
  • Improve the appearance and pack performance.

Foam monoPET with density >1

PS and EPS are considered problematic categories of plastic packaging. AMB are:

  • PET white light barrier applications
  • Designed for recycling (density >1 g/cm3, mineral filler <4%)
  • Lighter than PET and comparable to PS
  • With R-PET recycled content
  • Cuts more easily than traditional PET sheet

Foam easy break monoPET

  • PET white light barrier applications (dairy)
  • Designed for recycling (density >1 g/cm3, mineral filler <4%)
  • Lighter than PET and comparable to PS
  • With R-PET recycled content
  • Excellent cutting for form, fill and seal applications
  • Multipack breakaway features are more consistently formed so packs stay together until the customer chooses to separate individual units
  • After thermoforming the material snaps

Clear monoAPET

  • Ready to Recycle
  • Same properties as multi-layer materials, but is a mono APET
  • Greater transparency
  • Facilitating recycling because of single material (no polyolefins)
  • Offers benefits as it can be easily sorted and recycled where the right infrastructure is in place

High barrier packaging DESIGNED for RECYCLING

  • Designed in compliance with the EU Recycling Guideline (PETCORE – CITEO – RECOUP – CEFLEX)
  • Ecodesign – monoPET on the bottom combined with a floatable lidding film or a monoPET on the top
  • Food shelf life is guaranteed
  • Packaging O2 residual stable near zero and OTR < 0,5 cc/pkg/day
  • Already tested for different foodstuffs applications such as fresh pasta, pizza, sliced ham and mortadella

r-PET

Reducing carbon footprint using 70.000 metric tons/year of PET recycled raw material in substitution of virgin resin, for saving of 98.917 metric tons of CO2 eq.

  • At least 70% of PCR recycled PET in the core layer – ABA structures
  • Up to 100% of PCR recycled PET food contact from super cleaning recycling processes EFSA approved

OCEANIC waste and bound PLASTIC packaging

We re-use plastic once extracted from the oceans and from nearby areas where plastic potentially floats into the oceans

  • The packaging is made from 80% recycled content and a minimum of 30% of the weight of the product is made up of ocean plastic.
  • We supply a document verifying the origins of the material: collected from oceans, beaches, rivers, lakes, and the immediate banks of those waterways
  • This material is also suitable for food grade applications .

Black monoAPET – NIR detectable

  • Facilitating recycling because no Carbon Black
  • new black dye detectable by NIR instrumentation making the black packaging recyclable
  • Offers benefits as it can be easily sorted and recycled where the right infrastructure is in place
  • No presence of Carbon Black
  • High efficiency in sorting
  • Enabling recycling

FLOWPACK mixPO recyclable packaging

  • Designing polyolefin-based flexible packaging
  • recyclability in compliance with CEFLEX Gudeline for flexible packaging

WATER BASE technology

  • Printing quality is as good as solvent base process
  • Inks adhesion on different substrates as good as solvent
  • Sandwich and outside printing is possible
  • Ink density superior to solvent base (up to 20%)
  • Different coatings are now available (matt, tactile..)
  • Higher eco-efficiency than solvent based inks and adhesives
  • Very high Green-Tack. 6 hrs from lamination to slitting
  • Transparency of the laminate as good or better than solventless
  • No risk of migration of unwanted substances in food staff.

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