Holfeld Plastics has scooped a top sustainable packaging design award at the Repak 2013/14 Awards. This new category highlights companies that have been successful in introducing sustainable packaging designs to the Irish market.
The scope of the award is broad covering all aspects such as packaging integrity but also includes eco-friendly sourcing of packaging materials, increased usage of recyclates and changing to simple, more recyclable materials.
Part of Holfeld’s presentation to meet the award was based on their Diamat technology - the introduction of processes that ‘superclean’ recycled Polymer pellets. Holfeld design and produce meat trays and fresh produce punnets that are made from up to 90% of recycled material, are lighter than equivalent trays in the market and are designed in such a way as to minimise transport and handling requirements.
This technology is being applied across a range of materials and designs and Holfeld work with their customers so that they understand the environmental benefits as well as the technical benefits of their products.
Holfeld was established in 1978. The manufacturer serves the fresh produce, red meat, poultry and fish market segments with a broad and comprehensive packaging portfolio.
Holfeld demonstrates a company - wide environmental policy and responsibility demonstrated by all that it does in its business. This policy covers the manufacture of all packaging, its design, choice of materials and in the optimisation of deliveries to customers cutting harmful transport emissions.
The company has an exclusive ‘real time’ manufacturing carbon analysis on products so that customers can tell at a glance the carbon emissions associated in their production.
All Holfeld’s packaging is recyclable and made from up to 90% food grade post consumer waste.
The company is constant in its efforts to design packaging that avoids excessive food waste with an ever increasing shelf life – a pre-eminent objective in its vision for zero waste, zero virgin and the lowest carbon footprint products
