Mondi partners with Robopac to offer seamless and sustainable paper-wrapping solutions for pallet storage and transportation, replacing plastic solutions. Mondi’s Advantage StretchWrap is worked on Robopac’s semi and fully-automated machines to manufacture the solution.
Sep 12, 2023
Mondi has partnered with Robopac, a world-leading manufacturer of pallet-wrapping machinery, to offer a seamless and more sustainable paper-wrapping solution for pallet storage and transportation.
Robopac’s new paper wrapping machine uses Mondi’s Advantage StretchWrap which is 100 percent kraft paper to deliver excellent protection for palletized goods due to high strength, puncture resistance, and tension absorption. The paper is created with responsibly sourced, renewable materials, containing no plastic or coating making it fully recyclable in existing waste streams across Europe. Robopac’s semi-automated and fully automated machines can both take Mondi’s Advantage StretchWrap, allowing customers to replace unnecessary plastic, which is currently the industry standard for pallet wrapping. The semi-automatic machine is able to process a 25-kilogram reel of Advantage StretchWrap to secure up to 40 pallets with one reel, every hour. The fully automated wrapping machine, meanwhile, can wrap up to 750 pallets with one reel, which equates to up to 60 pallets per hour.
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This solution was introduced at the 2023 Interpack fair, where delegates could witness first-hand the genuine, successful trials of the prototype.
An independent life cycle assessment (LCA) demonstrated that Advantage StretchWrap performed better in several environmental impact categories, such as climate change. The LCA found that it has 62 percent lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when compared to virgin plastic stretch film, and 49 percent lower GHG emissions when compared to plastic stretch film made with 50 percent recycled content.
Mr. Bartosz Babicz, Product Manager StretchWrap, Flexible Packaging Mondi, said, “We highly value the collaboration on eye-level with Robopac including a great exchange of expert knowledge, having similar core values within our companies. Close collaboration with our partners is key to the transition to sustainable packaging solutions, therefore working with Robopac is truly driving our progress towards a circular economy and provides our customers a combination of state-of-the-art machinery with the best quality wrapping paper.”
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Mr. Filiberto Felici, Robopac Product Manager, added, “Our biggest challenge was to adapt the paper material to the packaging operations while ensuring maximum stabilization of the customer’s products during transportation with minimum use of resources. Using our own unique Cube Technology, we achieve maximum load stabilization and are very satisfied with the effectiveness of our machines’ performances in conjunction with Mondi’s Advantage StretchWrap.”
