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Form-Fill-Seal technology…

GO GREEN!

The principal roles of food packaging are to protect food products from outside influences and damage,
to contain the food, and to provide consumers with ingredient and nutritional information. Traceability,
convenience, and tamper indication are secondary functions of increasing importance. The goal of food
packaging is to contain food in a cost-effective way that satisfies industry requirements and consumer desires,
maintains food safety, and minimizes environmental impact.

Food packaging is directly responsible for a broad range of before it reaches the consumer. For the most common alternatives
environmental issues, including overcrowded landfills, greenhouse to plastic such as paper, glass and metal can. But replacing all plastic
gas emissions, and litter-pollution (both on land and in the ocean). with these materials is not an ultimate solution. It would, in some
The ecological concerns surrounding food packaging and its impact respects, cause further negative effects on the environment. Each
on planetary health, is largely centered on the way it is disposed of. material has its own set of environmental consequences. Consider
The 23 million tons of plastic packaging produced annually in Europe, this, you are going to the supermarket to buy some chopped tomatoes.
forty percent of this (9 million tons) ends up in landfills, further Let’s rule out a paper bag as we already know that would be
compounding the existing space problems. Even worse is the fact very messy.
that a shocking thirty-two ends up polluting the land and the oceans.
It is also aggravating the environment problem worse. What is Form Fill Seal machine?
Even it said so but surprisingly, the most common waste product Form Fill Seal (FFS) machines are packaging machines that form, fill
in our nature was not plastic packaging. But irresponsibly disposed and seal a package on the same machine. The main types are vertical
of cigarette butts this might be the excuse of plastics packaging after form fill seal (VFFS) and horizontal form fill seal (HFFS) machines
sentences as an nature destroyer Moreover, plastic container also depends on what type of machines that fit with your production line.
has a positive role in reducing food waste by keeping food fresher for – a term often used to cover horizontal versions of flow-wrappers,
longer. A lack of adequate packaging leads to more food spoilage. In sachet machines, blister pack machines, four side seal machines and
developing countries reported 30-50% of perishable food decays thermoform fill and seal machines. In FFS machines, packaging

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