Easy slip plastic packaging

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An everyday phenomena met by consumers world wide is the fact that it is not possible to empty many containers without scraping or flushing to avoid loss of content. Typical examples can be drinking yoghurt, tomato ketchup or paint, where up to 10% loss can be observed. This represents significant value both for the consumer and producer. When waste handling or recycling is considered packaging products might end up as special category waste, or both consumer and waste handling companies perform washing with and extensive amount of water. Due to the environmental aspects and increasing customer focus on these challenges, this project target to find solutions to the problem. The overall idea of this project is to develop an environmentally friendly packag ing concept with inner plastic surfaces that due to very good slip properties (easy slip) would enable more or less no residues in the package when emptied. Extensive R&D is crucial in order to identify and develop concepts that are applicable for plast ic forming processes, consistent with food or paint applications and that have potentials in markets with low to moderate margins. The innovation will increase customer value of products, give access to new markets and give an important reduction i CO2 fo otprint. The project consortium developing this new technology has six partners: two R&D institutes (Norner and YKI), two packaging producers (Elopak and Promens Kambo) and two final product producers (Tine SA and Jotun). Elopak, which is one of the lead ing companies in non-carbonated food packaging, is the project owner. Norner AS, which is an independent, global polymer institute, is the project leader. The result of the project will be upscalable prototype packaging products with documented potential for significant reductions in waste residues. The demonstrators will be made by the participating packaging producers and evaluated by final product producers.