On paper, removing plastic from food packaging sounds like a great idea. In real life, however, it’s not that simple.
While plastic isn’t perfect, it has important strengths – like extending shelf life and ensuring products reach you safely. Flexible packaging plays a vital role in preserving food, and moving away from it was never an option for us. Instead, we focus on making it more sustainable – balancing excellent performance with circularity and a reduced environmental footprint.
Our green food films keep products safe, extend their shelf life and meet recyclability standards across Europe. Being lighter and more flexible than other materials like glass, they make it easier to optimize packaging size, reducing transport costs and carbon emissions.
On top of that, they simplify waste sorting, making sustainability easier for everyone.
Get maximum protection for your products with minimal environmental impact. Explore how our films and pouches, crafted from monomaterial polyethylene, set new standards in recyclability and sustainability.
Our Mono PE solutions offer added ecological value compared to non-recyclable options, but with the same price tag.
Integration with existing mechanical recycling streams is seamless, making your waste management processes much simpler
Our improved high-performance oxygen barrier ensures better packaging integrity, enhancing safety and quality and keeping your products fresh for longer.
By choosing mono PE, you’ll be actively contributing to cutting carbon emissions across the packaging life cycle.
It’s good to stay one step ahead, and what better way to do it than join forces with industry leaders? We have teamed up with Dow and Kuraray to develop advanced alternatives that meet the upcoming PPWR requirements. This way, you can be sure that your packaging stays compliant while also maintaining superior food protection and reducing its environmental impact.
Here comes the next generation of high barrier vacuum and pasteurizable pouches. With a high-performance formulation including 30% PA, our 11-layer coextruded films are ideal for processed meats, dried fruits, confectionery and powders, including coffee. No less important, they meet the criteria set forth by the new EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), putting you one step ahead of future sustainability and recyclability requirements.
Made entirely of plastic, they’re easier to handle in sorting and recycling processes
At only 95/115 µm thick, our films require less material and reduce total packaging volume across the supply chain
Benefit from lower material input and reduced environmental fees (e.g. CONAI in Italy).
Our films are ideal for vacuum packaging and pasteurization
Enjoy more peace of mind during transport and storage, with fewer vacuum leaks.
Explore our range of sustainable food packaging solutions, carefully engineered to protect your goods while respecting the planet.
What if you could get more, using less? With greengauging, you can.
This process is commonly known as “downgauging”, but we renamed it to reflect that it’s not simply about cutting down surplus. What we do is reduce the thickness of our packaging while maintaining strength and function.
Greengauging is not a one-size-fits-all solution: it’s a process carefully tailored to each specific product and involving multiple testing to guarantee top-notch performance. What you get as a result is a real edge in terms of resources saved and sustainability achieved.
Greengauging can help you reduce your material consumption by up to 20%, and the environmental taxes that come with it.
Our 11-layer coextruded film with PA/PE resins requires significantly less material while still ensuring consistent residual thickness in critical areas, such as corners. It also requires lower processing temperatures, therefore less energy.
By reducing material waste both during production and after use, and lowering carbon emissions in production and transportation, greengauging helps you align with global sustainability goals and comply with laws and regulations.
"We have been working with Niederwieser for years, and their expertise in downgauging has enhanced our approach to packaging. We achieved a 16% reduction in packaging costs through downgauging, leading to lighter packaging that improved logistics and reduced transportation costs. Our supply chain is now more efficient and agile. We appreciate their commitment to delivering ongoing improvements."
EcoChrome is a sustainable technology that gets you great printed packaging while producing significantly less waste than traditional printing. It runs on modern machines with maximum efficiency and minimum use of solvents and energy. Specifically optimized for recyclability, it supports mono-materials and other recyclable structures, reducing the overall footprint of the printing process.