SENNING, a part of the German OPTIMA group, is a renowned supplier of wrapping machinery for napkins, hand towels, facials and handkerchiefs. “We are receiving more and more inquiries for paper wrapping solutions – says SENNING’s Senior Sales Manager Christoph Fahrenholz. This trend is nothing new. We have been encountering requests for wrapping in paper already decades ago. But the playground for technical solutions has increased. Today we have different machinery and materials solutions for wrapping in paper available. We can offer a stand-alone solution with a hot melt application system as one option. In this case, we have an upstream unit applying punctual hot melt points on a standard wrapping paper. The hot melt is warmed up in a metal container and then applied via spray nozzles onto defined points on the paper. The unit is high-performing with a tank with strong heating performance for a high-quality melt application. The hot melt system is connected to the wrapping machine and is managed through the wrapper’s control panel. The advantages of such a solution are the minimal consumption of gluing material, the utilization of standard paper and a very clear machine design with minimum complexity as the gluing solution is located outside the wrapping machine. These key success factors yield high production efficiency, reliability and uptime, high throughput and high packaging quality – factors that SENNING delivers in parallel. An additional advantage is high flexibility with short change-over times from paper to wrapping in foil”.
Environmentally friendly packaging requirements
With consumer demand for environmentally friendly packaging, implementation of the EU Green Deal and many new EU, USA and global environmental Regulations and Directives the global market economy landscape is changing. SENNING, together with Austrian based speciality paper manufacturers, delfort AG, are responding to this call in the market segment for wrapping packaging. delfort has developed a transparent light-weight heat sealable paper that allows for a seamless transition to a paper wrapping alternative solution usable on SENNING machines.
With today’s production requirements of excellent quality and high efficiency a solution would be to use a specialty grade of paper designed to support these requirements on current production assets. The delfort paper solution has a special heat-sealing layer on the paper surface which is activated under temperature and pressure. Further to this the paper design allows for excellent folding properties thus ensuring that products are well packaged and aesthetically of a high-quality standard. For efficiencies the high level of processability of delfort specialty paper is an important advantage including that of low reject rates.
For the operations manager and production team, the ease of use and wide application range due to flexible change between different wrapping materials is important. Supporting environmental sustainability delfort has developed both a transparent and white heat sealable paper solution in low basis weights. This paper solution is certified TÜV OK HOME Compostable and meets the newly introduced EU based CEPI recycling standards.
End wrapped products such as napkins, handkerchiefs and others are sometimes colourfully printed for different seasons, celebrations or with patterns. These attractive prints are easily recognizable when using delfort’s transparent heat sealable paper wrapping solutions thus attracting customer’s attention. Optimum product protection including tear resistance, robustness of the paper, and surface water-repellent effect are other important final product characteristics.
The client is fully flexible
All retailers and brands that partner up with them are frontrunners in this transformation from plastic to paper packaging. Retailers appreciate the excellent communication possibility on this premium appearing paper solution. Due to limited resources, speed is key and anybody could become a professional first mover in a positive communication to customers.
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