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STRENGTHEN THE PACKAGING

material is fed off a roll, shaped, and sealed. The bags/packs are then
filled, sealed, and separated. FFS machines employ a wide range of
material types. They are used across numerous markets including
food, drinks, chemical, medical and pharmaceuticals etc.

Eco-friendly technology for Form Fill Seal machine
• Normal FFS machine but with mono-material paper
Normally, Form-fill-seal machine uses a vary type of flexible film which
made from plastic. But this innovation specifically developed from the
existed form, fill and seal machine to produce paper bags out of 100%
recyclable and compostable paper mono material, may allow coating
with the sealing agent on a minimal surface area, preserving the
paper’s mono-material nature, can producing categories i.e., gable-
top, brick type, sachet etc. for all products. Recently, this idea is more
realistic due to eco-friendly packaging trends.
• Recycled Polystyrene for FFS Polystyrene plastic is made
from petrochemicals. Polystyrene is commonly used in food
packaging, where it comes in two forms, rigid and foam. From prior
research, styrene is too harmful for being a food packaging and The best solution for environment and sustainability problems of
environment, so they recommend other packaging instead. But packaging may not need to abolish or ban the usage, if we look through
nowadays technology leaps up, the styrene upgrade to be more the accusation, there are the advantages of food packaging to protect
sustainable. the development of a new grade of post-consumer and prevent damage from outside and slow down the spoilage of the
recycled polystyrene for form-fill-seal formulations. With this food it contains, because of food waste are also affecting directly to
technology will help the plastics industry conserve resources and environment issue. Therefore, the development of packaging technology
reduce oil consumption which can be used for food-packaging to be more environmentally friendly is the answer of the problem.
applications. Many industries involve this technology to their production
by change the material for forming packaging instead of the whole
machines.

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