Packing industry

Everthing is possible. Whether round, oval or angular, whether large, medium or small. The special is versatile. Packaging for a wide variety of foods must be user-friendly to handle, have an interesting feel or an unique surface. The design language in terms of look and feel often determines consumer acceptance in just a few secons. No matter whether the contents are pasta salad, ice cream, yoghurt or magarine.

The customer of KAESER Kompressoren is a manufacturer of plastic packaging for the food industry. Here, the complete range of the production chain is handled from a single source: from development and design to prototyping and toolmaking, right through to series production and logistics. In three state-of-the-art production plants, 120 automated injection moulding machines are used to produce state-of-the-art packaging systems for a wide range of applications using the IML (in-mould-labelling) process. This is an innovative labelling technique for plastic packaging. Pre-printed labels are inserted into the injection mould. This means that the labelling process takes place during the production of the packaging, not afterwards. This means there is no need for a seperate adhesive layer. This is because the labels bond directly with the molten plastic when the liquid plastic is injected. After cooling, the label is bonded to the packaging as an inseparable unit. This processing technology creates a 1-substance package that can be recycled.