Parnaplast and GDM Brasil, subsidiary companies of the Brazilian group FCO (which operates eleven plastic packaging conversion plants and one logistics unit) will be presenting their sustainable portfolios to the European market. The sustainability theme will be the company’s central focus for its products. Learn more about some of the lines that will be given priority on the continent:
Parnaplast
Glass TF Film, a nine-layer medium- or high-barrier co-extruded flexible plastic film, mainly used in the thermoforming process in food packaging manufactured using latest-generation water-cooled blown film technology. Because water is used instead of air as the cooling process, extrusion takes place on a top-to-bottom basis. The use of water allows for extremely rapid film cooling, a low degree of crystallization, and an extremely amorphous film structure. The result is a film with outstanding brightness, high transparency and excellent resistance to punctures and tears.
In-cycle, a ready-to-recycle high-barrier flexible film, using compatibilizing polymers to ensure its recyclability within the PE recycling chain. In-cycle film is a co-extruded multi-material structure in up to 9 layers, which offers excellent optical properties, such as gloss and transparency, especially for the vacuum filling process, as well as offering very good mechanical strength.
Re-balance, a ready-to-recycle, high-barrier flexible film designed to contain up to 5% EVOH, ensuring its recyclability within the PE recycling chain. The Re-balance film has a coextruded structure in up to 9 layers, offering excellent optical properties such as brightness and transparency for vacuum or modified atmosphere filling processes and is available in different formats such as films, bags, and pouches, among others.
GDM
Stretch PCR, a 7-layer coextruded film made from 30-50% post-consumer recycled resins, available in thicknesses up to 20 microns.
A pre-stretched film, produced with high-performance PE resins using advanced and exclusive co-extrusion and in-line pre-stretching technology. This process provides a significant reduction in thickness and, subsequently, a reduction of up to 40% in the cost of the film per pallet, in addition to offering better working conditions, as it requires less effort during application.
CPP films are co-extruded in five-layer CAST technology using high-performance polypropylene blends that guarantee excellent performance at low sealing temperatures, at around 80°C. These films offer excellent optical characteristics such as gloss and transparency, rigidity, and a consistent moisture barrier.
Among the diverse line of technical films, the following stand out: MOPE, a more efficient polyethylene film, produced from high-performance resins in a state-of-the-art technological process that consists of stretching the film up to ten times immediately after extrusion. The MOPE film offers a high moisture barrier and similar gloss and stiffness characteristics to BOPET and BOPP, allowing these films to be substituted for MOPE in many applications. FCO Group’s MOPE films are available in monostructures or laminated with PE film structures, thereby allowing for recyclable plastic packaging and reduced thickness. In addition to MOPE (Mono-Oriented Polyethylene Film), the FCO Group offers a solution in Mono-Oriented Polypropylene Film (MOPP) with improved properties in terms of brightness and rigidity, produced in both blown- and cast-coextrusion processes, suitable for applications in self-adhesive labels, press sensitive labels, and refrigerator labels.
