From:Packaging News

UNI Packaging has worked with VF Verpackungen to launch the AMILEN 11-layer film range to the UK market.

The move sees UNI Packaging becoming the exclusive distributor of the German producer’s ground breaking cast co-extrusion technology for flexible thermoforming top-web and base-web films.

Offering up to 20% material thickness down gauging, the AMILEN 11-layer film range can provide a reduction in both costs and packaging waste when compared to standard 3, 5 or 7 layer films.

Available in thickness range of 50 – 350μm, combinations of PA, PP, PE and EVOH are used to produce films for standard thermoforming, vacuum or modified atmosphere packing. Options for extended shelf life, cooking, pasteurisation and sterilisation (including gamma irradiation) are available.

“We are very excited to be working with VF Verpackungen in promoting their 11 layer technology in the UK. Not only will the range provide flexible thermoformers with reduced packaging costs, they will also benefit from the superior quality of product that VF Verpackungen are renowned for,” said UNI Packaging’s Rod Entwistle.

UNI Packaging’s UK operation includes a well invested manufacturing facility in St Helens, Lancs, together with a sales office based in Edinburgh.