Chemical Recycling helps to Reduce CO2 Footprint & Consumption of Fossil Feedstock for Cheese Packaging

Sustainability is key in all areas and in all aspects at SUDPACK and is also a permanent call to action. More than 50% of the company’s investments are dedicated to technologies that help to improve sustainability. 30 percent of its turnover is already generated by sustainable products.

ZERO WASTE is SUDPACK’s major goal. Thus, one goal is to support its customers in closing loops and reducing the consumption of fossil resources.

SUDPACK considers chemical recycling to be an important and indispensable part for a circular economy in the plastics industry. And it does so whenever mechanical recycling reaches its limits despite Design for Circularity”. Chemical recycling can be used to recycle multi-layered materials as well as contaminated and mixed plastics that are not recyclable with mechanical recycling processes. For food packaging, SUDPACK believes that the combination of mechanical and chemical recycling processes is an ecologically and economically reasonable alternative. In this way, easily separable plastic fractions can be sorted out on a sensor basis and recycled mechanically, whereas other material fractions can be processed into virgin material using chemical recycling.

For this reason, SUDPACK entered into a strategic cooperation with Carboliq two years ago. The primary goal was initially to use the pilot plant to recycle the company’s own materials generated during the production of packaging films. Now, first customer projects are becoming real.

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