Treform has chosen to replace traditional plastic materials in its packaging and investing in materials with less impact on the earth’s resources. Although the plastic industry accounts for only a small part of the world’s crude oil consumption, it’s important that everyone takes their responsibility and do what goes on their home market.

SCANFILL – 43% less CO2 impact

SCANFILL consists of 48% polypropylene and 52% mineral, which gives it many beneficial properties. In addition to the superb environmental benefits, the mineral gives strength and stiffness, allowing production of thinner foil. The mineral also provides higher heat conductivity and better forming properties. SCANFILL offers many choices in regarding to color and appearance of matt and/or blank, and whether it should contain a barrier layer (EVOH).

SCANFILL BIO – 64% less CO2 impact

SCANFILL BIO consists of 48% non-oil-based PE (sugar cane PE) and 52% mineral, which gives it many beneficial properties. In addition to the superb environmental benefits, the mineral gives strength and stiffness, allowing production of thinner foil. The mineral also provides higher thermal conductivity and better forming properties. SCANFILL BIO offers many choices in regarding to color and appearance of matt and/or blank.

SCANFILL BIO’s superior environmental benefits are based on the fact that NO oil-based components are present in the materials. Half of the material is non-oil-based polymer and the other half is mineral with relatively non-existing environmental impact. The material is approved for food contact.

r-PET – 100% recycled material

r-PET plastic is produced from 100% recycled material that meets the requirements of EFSA. It’s produced mainly from PET beverage packaging collected and recycled from the market. r-PET is usually produced in transparent and black but is available in other colors.

Treform uses green electricity and biogas in our operation.

We only use Green electricity in our production. Green electricity is electricity produced from renewable energy sources, most of which are hydropower, wind power, and biofuels, all of which are solar energy.

As a source of heating, we use biogas. Biogas is a completely renewable and climate-neutral fuel. Thanks to the choice of 100% renewable energy in the form of biogas, Treform has reduced its operation’s carbon dioxide emissions by 33 tonnes of CO2.

Over the past ten years, the production and sales of food packaging has increased for each year within Treform Packaging. Treform is now focusing even more on developing and creating further growth in food packaging. Therefore, during July, Treform has sold the production of garden related products.

The buyers are three established and experienced growers: Mats Christensson, Mats Nilsson and Christer Bengtsson, who jointly formed Krukpartner AB. The sale included thermoforming machines with associated tools for pots. The idea is that the production of garden packaging solutions should continue as before in the new constellation and with continued sales in Scandinavia.

In order to enable this growth for food, Treform has invested in a new thermoforming machine.

Contact:

Treform Packaging AB
0735 305 899

Krukpartner AB
070-5935664 or 070-3405543

Treform invests in another machine! This time it’s a full-electric manufacturing machine that consumes 30 % less electricity than so-called hydraulic machines. The new machine is equipped to run Scanfill material and PP. A-PET and PS are other materials that work well in the new machine.

– The demand for our packaging has increased rapidly. The increase is mostly on packaging with the environmentally friendly Scanfill material, which has been crucial for our new investment. With the new machine, we increase our capacity by 50 percent, which means a turnover increase of around SEK 25 million, says CEO Thomas Olsson.

In order to cope with the increased order intake, Treform has recently invested in a new state of the art High-Speed Thermoforming machine. This increases the efficiency by about 30%. It is the benefits of shortened setup times and increased production speed that make this possible.

The machine makes Treform more flexible in its choice of materials to its customers, as it can produce with various types of materials such as Scanfill (50% mineral), PP (Polypropylene plastic), A-PET (Polyethylene terephthalan) and PS (Styrene plastic).

As one of the few companies in Scandinavia, Treform now offers thermoformed packaging with printed sleeves.

The printed sleeves are applied to the thermoformed package and can be delivered with up to 8-color printing.

– Applying printed sleeves on thermoformed packaging increases the value and uniqueness for brand owners.

The sleeved packaging is extremely competitive compared to injection molded packaging with IML.

Unique packaging can be prepared for salads, cookies, sauces, dairy products, etc., reveals CEO Thomas Olsson, on Treform.

The material in the thermoformed packages can be varied, A-PET, SCANFILL or PP.

The picture: An example of what Treform can offer when it comes to sleeved packaging.

SCANFILL is a unique material on the market. The reason is that it consists of more than 50 % of natural minerals.

In addition to the environmentally friendly profile, there are advantages for brand owners to distinguish themselves in the market with colored packaging in SCANFILL material.

The ability to produce different colored packages is almost infinite. It regards both whether you want single-colored or 2-color packages.

– We already ship a lot of packaging material from Scanfill. Our customers are very satisfied and we see a great potential for this environmentally friendly material. We also see great potential for further developing the range of SCANFILL materials, emphasizes CEO Thomas Olsson on Treform.

Picture: Colored packaging in SCANFILL material. The environmentally friendly packaging provides additional positive signals when it also gets in a variety of colors!

Through frozen portions of ecologically sustainable baby food and no additives, the ChildFoodFactory company in Östersund wants to challenge the big canned food companies. ChildFoodFactory now launches “My baby food”. Pleasingly, they chose the Scanfill material for the packaging.

– The production of the new innovative packaging solutions comes from Treform, says CEO Thomas Olsson.

The unique SCANFILL materials that consists of  50% infinite raw materials, such as chalk, are especially suitable for further processing in the traditional molding and thermoforming processes, but also for example injection molding.
We at Treform Packaging see this as the material of the future. Its unique features gives our customers and clients huge benefits in a competitive market.

Some advantages for the owner of the brand:

• Manage the high standards and is approved for food contact.
• Good environmental profile through a huge reduction of CO2 emissions.
• Cost-effective – Less price sensitive to increased raw material costs.
• Good barrier properties and low light emissivity can increase storage time.
• Good microwave oven characteristics.
• Provides no taste.
• Good resistance to moisture.
• Good printing properties.
• High heat stability.
• Paper-like and formable properties – “no memory”, does not crack.
• Fully recyclable.
• Completes the futures environmental requirements already.

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