{"id":16393,"date":"2013-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130320-04n"},"modified":"2013-03-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:00:00","slug":"ampac-launches-bioflex-pack-for-dry-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ampac-launches-bioflex-pack-for-dry-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Ampac launches BioFlex Pack\u2122 for Dry Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ampac, the world\u2019s leader in creative packaging solutions, announces the launch of the BioFlex Pack<sup>TM<\/sup> by Ampac, an innovative biodegradable laminate for dry products.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20130320-04\/AMPAC1.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"AMPAC1.jpg\"\/>Packaging components for the BioFlex Pack are made from strictly biodegradable materials including the adhesive. Developed by Ampac\u2019s Kirchberg, Switzerland product development group to service the growing demand in European markets, this innovative material composition is fully biodegradable and compostable according to European regulation EN 13432 and U.S. ASTM D6400. Meeting industrial compostable standards, 90% of the material will be composted approximately 70 days after disposal.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20130320-04\/AMPAC2.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"AMPAC2.jpg\"\/>The BioFlex Pack laminate is unique in that both the adhesive and inks used in the material are biodegradable allowing customers to take full advantage of Ampac\u2019s 10 color flexographic capabilities for optimal shelf appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Other innovative advantages of the BioFlex Pack laminate material include little to no curing time, which provides an optimized supply chain time reduction of more than one week. BioFlex Pack is available as printed roll stock and as premade pouches. Suggested packaging applications include dry cereal or grains, tea and coffee products, powders or tablets, and wholesome or natural products.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hansruedi Haeberli, Managing Director of Ampac\u2019s Kirchberg facility, &#8220;Ampac is pleased to provide such a unique offering to our European customers, which includes a fully biodegradable and compostable component. It provides advantages to the consumer as well as to the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ampac, the world&rsquo;s leader in creative packaging solutions, announces the launch of the BioFlex Pack<sup>TM<\/sup> by Ampac, an innovative biodegradable laminate for dry products.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[5094],"class_list":["post-16393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ampac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16393"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}