At packaging show FachPack 2018, Hans-Joachim Boekstegers, Director and CEO of packaging specialist Multivac, gave an overview of the current development of the business as well as the packaging trends and the company’s product highlights on the exhibition booth. He emphasized: “Contrary to the general market trend, our business continues to develop well. Our production capa-city is fully utilized and we are seeing a very positive development in all the company’s business units. Following 2017, in which our turnover reached virtually the one billion Euro mark, we are now expecting in the current business year an increase in turnover of up to ten percent”.

Thanks to Multivac’s existing packaging technology, it is already possible today to have packaging concepts which provide reduced consumption of resources as well as dramatically increased recyclability. “Our machines are designed in such a way, that they can run a wide range of packaging materials with ease,” said Hans-Joachim Boekstegers.

Multivac PaperBoard offers a wide range of solutions for producing packs based on paper fibre which can fully meet the requirements of recyclabil­ity. The thermoforming packaging machines and traysealers can be individually customized to the particular output requirements of customers. The carrier material can be run in the form of either rolls or pre-cuts, and pre-made trays can, of course, also be used. All the materials can be separated into their respective parts by the end user, and the paper carrier and plastic film can then be put separately for recycling. At FachPack, the company showed an R 105 MF thermoforming packaging machine and a T 800 traysealer which is integrated in a completely automated line, both of which are able to run recyclable materials based on paper fibre.