Top stand up pouch producer in 2022? Every shop has a different style but needs for coffee doesn’t change much. We have aluminum ply in the middle of our laminates to keep you coffee fresh for a long time. Outside we have brown, white kraft or transparent film (silver color). All our stand up pouches have zipper feature for closure. Plastic partially made of Sugar cane, No Aluminium used for barrier. Bio-based material at least 65% of total material. Less carbon foot print, less global warming. Read even more information at kraft aluminium stand up pouch. Made of Paper only: Paper has one of the easiest and well established recycling streams. End customers can safely throw it out to the paper once the pouch is totally used. We inform the customers so that they don’t need to wonder where to dump it to. Why Compost if you can Recycle? All kinds of paper will compost if left in nature or given enough time humidity and oxygen in composting factories. We always ask why compost if you can recycle? Paper can be used over and over again and have a high economical value. We believe in Circular Economy.
Currently recyclable materials cannot be used in all kinds of packaging machinery. We see that when it is currently very hard to use Recyclable materials, like flat bottom box pouches, we can use bio-based materials as an eco-friendly alternative. In our opinion compostable stand-up pouch is a very good idea but in reality it has a limited benefit for the nature. Compostable stand up pouches may be ideal where the waste collection cannot be effectively made like in camping areas or in less developed countries.
Many objective studies show in details why use of plastic is better. Plastic is valuable material. We should not give up on it after single use. The second life of the flexible pouch is not good for food contact but there are many other areas where flexible packaging is used in non-food applications. A problem we see with plastic packages are marine litter. First of all plastics is not the only polluter of the oceans. We see the plastics more because it floats whereas the other materials sink.
This is important because oil is a limited resource and we don’t want to finish it all and have none left for the future generations. This is what’s called sustainability. Another benefit of bio- based, sustainable stand up pouch is less of ecological area is used for oil wells. The starch for bio-based plastic is grown in controlled areas only. Bio-Based plastic stand-up pouches had properties very similar to regular plastic. It means that the possibility of replacing the fossil based stand up pouches is wider. Many thinks that bio-based are also bio degradable (compostable) or recyclable. Not really. Once the starch turns into plastic it acts no different than fossil based plastic. Read more details at stand up pouch manufacturer.