Projectname:
Sealing behaviour of mechanically recyclable and recycled packaging materials
Workgroup: Packaging materials
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Financing: IVLV e. V.
Duration: 2021
The packaging law that came into effect in 2019 forces a step by step increase of material recycling of polymers. During the last 10-15 years, more and more multimaterial-multilayers were developed. However, the usage of monomaterial-multilayers is of advantage for recyclability. Such materials often contain a high content of polyolefins, which are also used as sealing layer. The sealing of packages is often done by heat contact or ultrasonic techniques. First evaluations of packaging films with recycled polymers show a disadvantageous change of mechanical performance, which lead to a hindered further processing. However, so far there is no information available concerning the effect of numerous recycling cycles on the sealability of materials with recycled content. Therefore, the effect of multiple recycling cycles on the processing properties of these packaging materials is evaluated. This information about the correlation of sealability and recycling cycles is of high interest for packaging material producers, sealing machine producers and fillers.