27 Jun 2022 --- Nextek’s pioneering Nextloopp recycling project has successfully undertaken the first full-scale packaging production trials using its PPristine food-grade resins. Nextloopp is a global multi-participant initiative aimed at closing the loop on food-grade PP. “While these in-depth trial findings show that the process of creating food-grade recycled PP (rPP) is highly feasible, they also highlight the fact that the recycling process is still more complex than it needs to be due to many current packaging design features,” Nextek’s founder Edward Kosior tells PackagingInsights.Mannok Pack, one of the UK and Ireland’s leading thermoformed food packaging manufacturers, ran the trials at its County Cavan facility, producing a range of different products from 500 g dairy spread tubs and lids through injection molding with an in-mold label to 500 g dairy spread tubs with lids through conventional sheet extrusion and thermoforming.
