Schwertberg, Austria – May 2020
ENGEL is committed to greater sustainability of plastic packaging. In collabo-ration with six other companies
from the Austrian packaging industry, the in-jection moulding machine manufacturer founded the
“Verpackung mit Zukunft” (Packaging with a Future) platform.
The aim of the initiative is to improve pub-lic awareness of meaningful use of packaging.
The companies are taking an ac-tive role in the development of a global circular economy for plastic packaging.
Reduce, Replace, Reuse, Recycle – these are the tasks that must be fulfilled to ensure
that packaging has the least possible impact on the environment.
The seven companies which founded the platform –
Alpla, Greiner, Coca-Cola Österreich, Nestlé Österreich, Interseroh, Erema and ENGEL –
are already making important contributions towards achieving this with their technologies.
Now the companies, which together cover a large part of the value chain, are joining forces in a network.
“The circular economy is an interdisciplinary challenge”, as Dr. Stefan Engleder, CEO of the ENGEL
Group, makes clear. “Only together can we suc-cessfully master this challenge
and quickly take the first comprehensive steps.”
Plastics for a small CO2 footprint
The focus of the joint commitment is plastic packaging, which has a particular need to make up lost ground
when it comes to meaningful handling, disposal and recycling and is therefore losing consumer acceptance.
However, compared to packaging made of other materials, plastics often have a significantly better CO2 footprint.
“We will not be able to master many of the challenges of the future without plastics,” Engleder emphasises.
“It’s not the material that is the problem, but how it is handled.
This is why we are increasingly leveraging our know-how and experience to ensure
that plastic packaging can be produced, used, disposed of and recycled in a sustainable manner worldwide.”
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