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Shorewood Packaging is committed to finding new alternative materials that gives our customers more choices for sustainable packaging solutions.
Our material goals:
- "Replace "less desirable" materials with innovative materials that enhance retail appeal, provide supply chain efficiencies and are recyclable and compost-able
- Replace petro-based resins with renewable resins for coatings, linings and packaging
REPAK®
REPAK® packaging joins Shorewood's line of "green" alternative packaging for optical disc products. It features a distinctive design for disc delivery with a recessed cavity that holds the disc securely in place without clunky plastic hubs or trays. The four-panel REPAK can be designed to accommodate the same number of trays as Shorewood's current Disc-Pack™.
- Tray options include plain white, flood-coated one color or custom printed, using either gravure or litho printing.
- Tray gluing is an automatic, one-step operation for disc insertion that saves energy.
- The CD-sized REPAK has passed loading and drop testing at several major replicators.
Flip-Pak
The Flip-Pak is an alternative package for optical disc products that is designed to be environmentally friendly. Its unique slide-out design for discs increases sustainability because it eliminates the plastic hub. Since the disc sits directly on the board it is protected from scratching.
- Suitable for music, home video, video games, and computer software releases
- Available in sizes for CDs and DVDs
PaperFoam®
PaperFoam® is a new packaging technology that is paper recyclable and biodegradable when composted. This environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic is manufactured in a patented, one-step injection molded process using a starch-based material. PaperFoam® is available in various colors and can be embossed and printed. It provides dust-free protection, scratch-proof product protection.
- Meets European compost-ability testing protocols from Organic Waste Systems (OWS)
- Comparable to ASTM's "Standard Specifications for Compost-able Plastics (D.6400-04)
- PaperFoam® CD trays and recycled board replace the standard jewel box made from crystal polystyrene (PS); The package is half the weight of a jewel box and the same quantity of product can significantly reduce transportation fuel costs and CO2 emissions
IP Everest® Safe-Pak
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The Safe-Pak is a tear-proof fold-over heat seal blister package that is a greener and safer alternative to plastic clamshells. It encapsulates a plastic blister between two layers of renewable, recyclable paperboard
- Eliminates the need for a paper insert - graphics can be printed directly on the board
- Adheres to itself when heated - no extra adhesives required
- Child-resistant, meeting F=1 protocols of the Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Equal Pilfer/tamper resistance compared to plastic clamshells, at a reduced cost
- Easier and safer for consumers to open, compared to all-plastic clamshells
- Strong seal to all common blister materials, including PET, RPET
- Lighter than a similar plastic clamshell and uses 76 percent fewer "less desirable" materials
- Packaging made with Everest Safe-Pak can be 35 percent cheaper to cost neutral when compared to typical plastic clamshells
Shorewood Packaging is on the forefront of new renewable, recyclable packaging technologies, and we will bring these environmentally-friendly products to market as concepts are proven viable.
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