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An increase in the production of coal in China and an energy intensive economic recovery is overshadowing gains made in renewable energy.

Recyclable, Deinkable Stand-Up Pouch Wins Gold in German Packaging Award Sustainability Category

In a unique value chain collaboration, Siegwerk, ExxonMobil, Henkel, Kraus Folie, and Windmöller & Hölscher created a recyclable stand up mono-material PE pouch. This innovation won the Gold award in the sustainability category of the German Packaging Awards on 13 September 2023. 


Siegwerk offers validated solutions for a safe and economic deinking of energy-cured ink systems that have been so far considered as non - deinkable. Its UV - and water-based deinking primers for labels and sleeves. These sets new norms to drive deinking as an industry standard and further improves recyclability & circularity of plastic packaging.

This development now allows an inline printing of deinkable materials in a 100 percent UV- flexo press setup. ‘Achieving this 100 percent packaging circularity requires a sufficient and consistent quality of recyclates,’ explained Ralf Leineweber, head of Global Technology Development at Siegwerk. According to Siegwerk, in mechanical recycling as today’s only established

Siegwerk’s Deinking Primer Technologies for Labels and Sleeves Improve Packaging Recyclability and Foster Circularity