The film manufacturer has now once again voluntarily documented its progress in the areas of action of circular economy, climate protection and social responsibility in a current update. For the first time, the latest progress report includes all six SÜDPACK production loca-tions in Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA. For the first time, the latest progress report includes all six Südpack production locations in Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA.

The circular economy section of the progress report focuses on the latest generation of innovative material structures within the framework of Südpack’s Zero Waste initiative. These structures equally fulfill the future requirements of the PPWR regarding recyclability, material efficiency and recyclate use – and are perfectly designed in terms of barrier functions, machinability for a wide variety of industry applications and customer needs. The implementation of an LCA tool, which can be used to develop new Südpack products and for holistic life cycle assessments for customer-specific packaging concepts, is a major step in the right direction.

A further focus of action is chemical recycling, which Südpack views as a viable, complementary technology to mechanical recycling and has been promoting with extensive investments since 2021. The long-term strategy aims to further expand the available capacities and, in the interests of a necessary circular economy, make packaging materials that are not currently recyclable circular and therefore sustainable. And at the same time at the German sites, mechanical material management is being consistently optimized and regranulation and compounding further expanded. SÜDPACK is currently the only film manufacturer on the market that has access to both these recycling options.