Siegwerk Congratulates Thành Phú Packaging on ERA Gravure Award for Sustainability

Siegwerk congratulates Thành Phú Packaging Co., Ltd., one of its long-time customers, on winning the 2021 Gravure Award for Sustainable Packaging, recently awarded by the European Rotogravure Association (ERA).

The Vietnamese packaging printer received the award in the category “Printed Products” for an excellently printed, fully recyclable mono-material packaging solution.

“The switch from multi-material to mono-material packaging is one important lever towards achieving full packaging circularity,” said Ralf Hildenbrand, president Packaging Americas & global technology, PSR and sustainability at Siegwerk. “But as this switch comes with many technical hurdles and challenges, we are more than excited that a customer project for mono-material packaging was honored with ERA’s Gravure Award for Sustainable Packaging now.”

Thành Phú’s winning mono-material packaging is a reverse printed flat bottom pouch for dog food. It is a fully recyclable MDO-PE/PE structure that is suitable for large volumes up to 20kg. The pouch was printed with a haptic (sand touch) and a matte coating from Siegwerk in double-in-register. The sand touch effect was applied at the upper part of the pouch design to offer a better and safer grip to the bag.

“This perfectly reflects our philosophy at Siegwerk, that packaging circularity and performance need to work hand in hand for good market acceptance,” adds Casimir Rowan, Business Unit head Flexible Packaging SEA. “And functional coatings provide a great opportunity to successfully achieve this.”

“With our winner pouch we have now been able to show that full PE structures can also be excellently printed with rotogravure, which provides our customers with a wide range of special effect varnishes and inks, together with consistent quality,” said Alex Dam, EVP, Thành Phú. “We have created a premium look pouch with perfect double-in-register-printing results and good sealing capabilities with two coatings in different thickness.”

In June 2021, the same printed packaging received the “Made for Recycling” quality seal from Interseroh, one of the leading service providers for sustainability, underlining its good recyclability.

Thành Phú is a family-owned and operated flexible plastic packaging manufacturer in Vietnam and a Siegwerk customer since 2014.

“Independent from the printing process used, it is always about matching functionality and recyclability,” added Khanh Tran Thi Quoc, head of sales, flexible packaging BU, Vietnam “Here, the right adjusted ink systems and coatings play an essential role to meet both, technical requirements in terms of performance and recyclability as well as optical and haptic packaging requirements.”