Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a specialist in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, has revealed it is celebrating the second year of its kp Tray2Tray initiative, which works towards creating a closed loop for food packaging.
With several regions of the business now using kp Tray2Tray flake in trays and rigid films, the firm is calling on the industry to help drive the initiative further, creating separate recycling and sorting systems specifically for pots, tubs and trays to turn them back into more of the same.
kp has been manufacturing fresh food packaging made with post-consumer recycled PET (rPET) for almost two decades. The business is working to implement kp Tray2Tray in its operations at every site.
A pilot site in Pravia, Spain is already using up to 30% kp Tray2Tray flake in a range of its thermoformed products for protein – with qualified certification from RecyClass. Another five sites in the UK, Portugal, Spain and Germany are producing rigid films for form, fill and seal applications using kp Tray2Tray as part of their extrusion processes, with sister site INFIA also incorporating it into their processes and producing fruit punnets.
