Grouped Beverage Packaging: Embracing the Shift to Eco-friendly Solutions

The beverage industry is witnessing a major shift in packaging practices, driven by environmental concerns, regulatory changes, and consumer demands. As the industry grapples with these changes, innovative packaging solutions are emerging, promising both sustainability and efficiency.

The global beverage industry is operating under increasing regulatory scrutiny. Governments across the world are introducing regulations aimed at curbing packaging waste and promoting environmental sustainability.

In Europe, for instance, the proposed "Packaging & Packaging Waste regulation" has brought forth a significant change. Article 22 of this proposal bans certain types of packaging formats, listed in Annex V, that are deemed unnecessary or avoidable.

The banned packaging formats primarily include plastic packaging used at the retail level to group goods sold in cans, tins, pots, tubs, and packets. However, this doesn't include grouped packaging required for facilitating handling in distribution.

Paper Packaging solutions

In the face of these changing regulations, alternative packaging solutions are gaining traction. Paper packaging, for instance, is proving to be a highly viable alternative to plastic packaging.

Paper-based packaging offers various advantages:

1. High recycling rates, superior to those of plastic packaging.
2. Versatility in design, ensuring consumer convenience.
3. Environmentally friendly, contributing to waste reduction.

Baumer hhs: Pioneering Change with Gluing and Monitoring Solutions

Baumer hhs hhs is a company leading the change in the packaging industry. It is the European market leader in automated gluing solutions and enjoys a strong presence in many countries in the Americas.

The company has recently revamped its solutions, particularly focusing on the monitoring of multiple adhesive tracks and folding control. These solutions enable cost-efficient production of complex folding cartons such as six packs and special designs, offering a more sustainable alternative to plastic packaging.

The Magic of Linear Lighting System

Baumer hhs has developed a new linear lighting system based on high-power LEDs that significantly enhances the efficiency of adhesive application monitoring. This system ensures uniform, bright lighting, enabling quality verification even at high machine speeds.

The new solution guarantees this level of lighting, even at distances of up to 250 mm. This means customers can install it above the belt guides in their folder-gluers. Moreover, our system doesn't need readjusting or reconfiguring during job changeovers, eliminating the setup time otherwise needed for this task.

Enhancing Occupational Safety and Efficiency

Not only does the new lighting system reduce setup times, but it also significantly enhances occupational safety for machine operators. The lighting module, housed in an aluminium casing equipped with heat sinks, provides optimum heat dissipation and allows safe installation in folder-gluers.

LEDs used in the system offer numerous benefits:

• They last three times longer than conventional mercury vapour lamps.
• They consume up to 85% less electrical power.
• They shut off automatically when production is down, extending their lifespan and preventing operators from being blinded during maintenance and repair tasks.

Supporting Fast Setup with Ease-of-operation

Baumer hhs has also focused on the ease-of-operation in its new solutions. Just one click on the magic wand button is all it takes for operators to enter glue patterns on the control panel of Baumer hhs gluing systems.

Ensuring Quality and Precision in Adhesive Application

Baumer hhs isn't just innovating in the field of adhesive application monitoring. The company is also setting new standards in adhesive application itself.

The new generation of PX1000 adhesive application valves by Baumer hhs ensures unprecedented quality and precision. This development is guided by the principle that producing quality is better than monitoring quality afterwards.

However, quality monitoring remains important. After all, a six-pack that falls apart, breaking the bottles, is a nightmare both from the customer's perspective and in terms of brand reputation. Baumer hhs's solutions reliably prevent such scenarios.

Securing Customer Trust

Baumer hhs's innovative solutions are gaining popularity in the beverage packaging industry. The trust of customers in Baumer hhs Beverage solutions is evident in current installations.

If you're looking to embrace the shift to eco-friendly packaging, Baumer hhs, as a specialist in the production, monitoring, and bonding of beverage packaging, can provide the guidance and solutions you need.

Thomas Walther

Baumer hhs GmbH