Coveris is launching a major investment program to modernize its site in Montfaucon, France. As a first step, a new, state-of-the-art extruder was recently purchased, allowing Coveris to modernize its plant and increase its capacity for the production of shrink and stretch hoods for industrial applications.
Coveris is one of the leading companies in the field of polyethylene extrusion. With these new investments, Coveris is expanding its range of products and providing the right answer to the growing market demand for recyclable and recycled flexible packaging materials.
Major structural changes have been made at the Montfaucon site in recent months to create the necessary space for the new machine. The modernization of the machine park represents a further step forward for Coveris, increasing productivity and capacity and reducing its own ecological footprint. Coveris is thus optimizing the range of products available to customers.
The new extruder with 5-layer co-extrusion technology now enables the production of shrink and stretch hoods made of polyethylene with the addition of recycled materials PCR (recycled post-consumer plastic) and/or PIR (recycled plastic from industrial production).
This technology allows Coveris to offer its customers standard or non-stick shrink hoods in lower thicknesses, which can also contain 50% or more recycled material.
In addition, this next generation extruder can also produce thinner stretch hoods containing up to 30% recycled material.
As our customers' communication needs continue to increase, this machine enables us to also offer inline printing, water-based ink, two-sided two-color printing and continuous or register printing.
This expanded range of recyclable and recycled shrink and stretch hoods from Coveris is in line with the company's "No Waste" sustainability vision. Coveris' sites in Winsford (UK) and Kufstein (Austria) are also able to produce films for stretch hoods with recycled content. This further underlines the group's innovative competence in developing industrial films for a more sustainable future across Europe.