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Berry Global Group, Inc. and VOID Technologies announce their successful collaboration to commercialize a new high-performance polyethylene (PE) film designed for pet food packaging. This innovative film delivers superior strength, toughness, and puncture resistance, enabling an all-PE solution suitable for store drop-off recycling while helping eliminate problematic non-recyclable materials.
The collaboration leverages VOID’s patented VO+™ technology, utilizing its 1300 Series PE Voiding Agents and Berry Global’s proprietary film formulation and MDO process knowledge. This unique combination creates cavitated micro-scale air pockets in the film, reducing plastic density and boosting opacity. This technology allows manufacturers to produce high-performance films with less plastic, helping reduce CO2 emissions and waste while maintaining compliance with direct food contact standards in North America and Europe.
The VO+ cavitated film structure significantly improves toughness for high-abuse, demanding applications in flexible packaging. VO+ also enables plastic reduction, density reduction, and high opacity without pigments, creating higher-yield PE-based films that provide more sustainable technical solutions for mono-material recycle-ready packaging.
