"As packaging specialists, we stand for ensuring that all materials are processed using the latest technology in every stage of manufacture. This especially includes environmentally friendly processing in our factories."
Horst Soder, Technical Management,
Hambruecken Factory |
Proven Classics
Aluminium and plastic will continue as indispensable raw materials for packaging in the future, due to their well-known virtues: they both protect and conserve, preserve flavours, fragrances and active ingredients, and ensure proper dosage and hygienic use.
Modern Talents
But both materials also have talents to make them fit for the future: economical usage, as in extra-thin tube walls, conserves resources and ensures light weight and space-saving packaging to reduce environmental impact during transportation. In the past 25 years the amount of material used for aluminium tubes or containers has dropped by an average of one quarter.
The end of the life cycle is a new beginning for packaging. Aluminium can be recycled with hardly any loss and requires only 5% of the energy used to manufacture the original aluminium. This cycle starts during production at LINHARDT’s factories: aluminium dust and scraps, and plastic rubbish, are collected carefully and sent to be prepared for re-use.
Plastic also has a sophisticated image. It is manufactured from only 5% of annual crude oil production—80% of oil is just burned. But plastic manufacture is the only sustainable use for raw fossil material. Plastic’s greatest advantage is high energy efficiency in its manufacture—a study shows that a complete ban on the use of plastic in western Europe alone would increase energy use by 26%. Both aluminium and plastic are classic materials and just as relevant today as they ever were.
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