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Mondi, the global packaging and paper group, is investing in its Styria, Austria, plant to further boost its ability to offer safe, clean, environmentally friendly liners for Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers.
"Not only do Mondi's FIBC liners advance customers' processes and logistics," explains Stefan Pfundner, Business Solution Manager, Mondi Technical Films, "but their superior quality reduces the amount of raw materials used and offers an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional liners."
The Mondi Styria film extruding plant already is well known for its outstanding hygiene standards and innovative sustainable product development. The site has extensive experience in developing more environmentally friendly products, including thinner, downgauged films and ply constructions ready for recycling. Now, with its latest innovation, Styria is enabling the elimination of aluminium inner layers in FIBC liner films.
New equipment to make high-barrier, side-gusseted tubes for FIBCs
This latest equipment upgrade will make Mondi Styria the only plant of its kind able to produce these types of tubes in such food-clean conditions. That facility has earned three straight "AA" certifications per the British Retail Consortium (BRC) global standard for packaging and packaging materials. That certification gives qualifying brands an internationally recognised mark of quality, safety and responsibility.
The new side-gusseting device will enable Mondi to provide converters with tubes up 4,400 mm in total circumference. It will come equipped with a special HEPA air filter to clean the air within the blown-film bubble to remove bacteria and particulates, yielding nearly sterile conditions, Pfundner said.
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Making powder handling safer
Mondi makes the high-barrier tubes and supplies them to customers who then produce the actual FIBC bags. By adding permanent antistatic additives to both the inside and outside of the film, Mondi can greatly reduce the dust-explosion hazards in combination with a Typ B Big Bag associated with filling or discharging of bulk powders such as infants' powdered milk or foodstuffs such as sugar, flour or spices. FIBC bags also are widely used to bulk package such items as chemicals and minerals.
