In July 2021, our Drulingen facility in Alsace gained a new machine for granulating post-consumer recycled plastic flakes. This capital investment further intensifies our involvement in the recycling and recovery value chain. It also responds directly to customer demand, because from 2025 onwards, our French customers will be legally required to ensure that their packaging products contain at least 25% […]
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Let’s review our innovation criteria in order to strengthen recycling channels
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When discussing the issues around environmental protection, recycling and the circular economy, innovation is often cited as the magic bullet. Innovations not subject to a detailed and thorough life cycle analysis may place an additional burden on the end-of-life recycling of plastic products and packaging. This article makes the case for reviewing our innovation criteria in order to strengthen recycling […]
Production of a wild boar baiting solution at Drulingen
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The Sotralentz Packaging teams responded quickly and successfully to the need of one of its customers to develop a 100% recyclable plastic container for the bait used to attract wild boar. High-speed bespoke development Lead time between initial contact and component delivery: just 4 months! Produced before the summer, the first components delivered complete customer satisfaction in terms of size, […]
Professional Gender Equality Index
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“Introduced by the Avenir Professionel (Future Career Choice) Act of 5 September 2018 and implemented by decree on 8 January 2019, the professional gender equality index is intended to help companies with 50 employees or more to make progress on the issues around gender equality. The legislation requires every qualifying company to publish their index, which is based on four […]
A successful start for PB 22 in Dinard!
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The new PB 22 extrusion blow moulding machine installed at Dinard in February is now fully operational. This all-electric machine has 4-cavity moulds and a fully automated robotic palletising system. To accelerate the development of a more circular economy for plastic packaging, this machine is equipped with a 3-layer extrusion head which enables RRM (recycled raw material) to be used […]
The 5L Style replaces the 5L AP3
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Developed as part of its ongoing product upgrading programme, Agriplas-Sotralentz Packaging presents the new 5L Style jerrycan. Why choose the 5L Style jerrycan? Developed by the company’s in-house design team, this new eco-designed version of the 5L jerrycan is 20g lighter than its predecessor 5L AP3 range, but is exactly the same size and capacity. Its superior mechanical performance makes […]
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