GIRONA, Spain—Comexi, a specialist in solutions for the printing and converting industry of flexible packaging, has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability and the circular economy by joining Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX).
This initiative is a collaboration of more than 160 European companies, associations and organizations that represent the entire flexible packaging value chain. As an objective, the consortium will work toward ensuring that all flexible packaging in Europe is based on a circular economy before 2025. This is meant to improve, through innovative design solutions, benefits that are identified by the collaboration of participating companies.
The circular economy is based on the use of resources and the reduction of raw materials, the optimization of materials and waste, and the use extension of material life. This model is committed to an environmentally friendly system that is based on prevention, reuse, repair and recycling, and extending the useful life of products, thus giving them a second life. “We fully identify with the principles that CEFLEX defends,” said Diego Hervás, CEO of Comexi, who stresses that the company has unfailingly been committed to seeking solutions that respond to more sustainable solutions in the flexible packaging market.
Comexi is aware that sustainability and recycling are gaining more and more interest and becoming more influential. The objective of a circular economy is now a perfectly distinguishable reality. In reference to tendency, end users want environmentally friendly solutions that include easily disposable materials. In respect to this, Comexi is committed to sustainable printing with the use of curable and water-based inks, thus improving the recyclability of packaging.
Furthermore, Comexi has designed two new and specific technical lamination solutions that offer sustainable solutions without sacrificing any properties of existing materials and maintaining client demands. These solutions were created as a response to the two principal trends of sustainability: the use of mono-materials and the use of paper for low-barrier applications.
Regarding mono-materials, successful efforts have been made to improve state-of-the-art solvent-free adhesive applications and optimize stress management. In reference to paper, the application of barrier coatings has been one of the primary focuses through the gravure carriage with a pressurized feeding system, being that it is especially designed for this type of application.