New 2016 Blog

An interesting article from Packaging News on the move away from industry-standard polythene, derived from finite fossil fuels, for ones made from a sugarcane biopolymer known as GreenPE. As well as being renewable, sugarcane captures and stores CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, making it carbon-negative.Avoiding the use of fossil fuel plastic material in favour of GreenPE…

Our latest commissioned LE360 has been designed and optimised for the bagging of a leafy salad product. Part of the customer’s specification required the protection against food-industry standard manual wash down processes. It has been built in Type 316 stainless steel for strength at elevated wash down temperatures and for better corrosion resistance, as it…