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Innovation and sustainability

Film and paper packaging solutions for today and tomorrow

Creative, forward-looking thinking is characteristic of HUGO BECK. We have also been focusing for many years on environmental and resource efficiency, making packaging processes more efficient and reducing material use in suitable applications. From an early stage, we began to give greater consideration to environmental and resource-related aspects in development, production and consulting. Various measures contribute to making our production processes more efficient and more resource-conscious.

The discussion surrounding environmental impacts in connection with plastic packaging provides important impetus for new packaging concepts. Naturally, as a specialist in horizontal film and paper packaging machines, this topic is close to our hearts and will continue to accompany us in the future, with the aim of making a contribution to more material- and resource-efficient packaging processes.

We see ourselves as a partner to industry and retail, working together through innovation and developments in machine technology to realise packaging solutions that can reduce material use in suitable applications and process different packaging materials, particularly for primary and secondary packaging.

In doing so, we have been pursuing various approaches for many years and take into account that every company has its own requirements for packaging its goods. We therefore want to ensure that our customers are able to choose the best material according to the specific product application, technical requirements and their defined sustainability objectives.

Innovative machine technology must, on the one hand, enable packaging that is as resource-efficient as possible while, on the other hand, also offering future security for users who need to be equipped today for the market of tomorrow.

RESOURCE-SAVING MACHINE TECHNOLOGY MEANS

Materials for film packaging

Materials for paper packaging

Material savings of approx. 15%

Due to our extremely tight packaging with a highly precise fit of the film and hardly any film waste during production, Hugo Beck's continuous servo X Form Fill and Seal machines can provide users with film savings of approx. 15%. For example, there is no stop-and-go, and through highly precise sequencing and synchronisation of the transverse sealing unit with each product, gaps are minimised. This ensures high volume production outputs, as well as delivering an extremely close-fitting, precise and film-efficient packaging solution with an unrivalled and outstanding finish. In the case of shrink packaging, less film is then shrunk, which both improves the packaging result and also reduces energy consumption.

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Material savings of approx. 60 - 70%

The environmental profile of film packaging can also be optimised by making it as thin and light as possible. Packaging machines from Hugo Beck process extremely thin packaging and shrink films starting from only 7 µm. The use of such fine shrink film provides material savings of approx. 60 - 70 % in the film volume per package in comparison with film packaging customary in the industry. 

Hugo Beck's cutting-edge machine technology has been designed to deliver a consistently high, or even increased, output across these new film types and to deliver significant reductions in film use! This ensures that both material savings and efficiency increases can be achieved in the production of flowpacks, bags and shrink packs.

Film or Paper: It's your choice

Paper packaging machines and hybrid machines that pack products in both film and paper on the same machine complete our portfolio.

Our paper X series or also flowpack machines for example allow users to select whether a product is wrapped in film or paper. The machines can be easily adapted to new packaging materials with a simple changeover. Or you entirely opt for paper packaging in the future.
Find out more about the paper X series
Find out more about flowpack machines

Our paper e-com fit paper packaging machine produces shipping bags with two sewn sides and top overlap glued. This machine is particularly suitable for the e-commerce sector.
Find out more about paper e-com fit

What will the future bring?

Many new packaging materials are currently being developed and will soon be ready for the market which will mean there will be numerous new film types and new papers available to choose from. We are meeting this challenge with flexible machine concepts, to make a meaningful contribution to sustainable solutions for our environment. By observing packaging trends and testing the latest developments in packaging materials at an early stage, we can make them available for our customers.

Therefore, please contact us at any time with your ideas and requests if you don't see your required packaging type or, for example, if you require a specific sealing option, just let us know and we will see how we can help.

Discover our solutions!

Flowpack Machine for Paper Packaging

Flowpack Machine for Paper Packaging

Our box-motion flowpack X packaging machine is suitable for heat and cold-sealable cellulose-/paper-based packaging materials. Thanks to continuous transversal sealing, a long dwell time and high sealing pressure is achieved enabling optimum processing of the most diverse coated, recyclable papers, such as barrier paper, kraft/offset/parchment and other papers with PE, PLA or dispersion coatings. The flowpack X packs goods in paper or film, by a simple changeover.

Sustainable Paper Packaging for E-Commerce, mail order and logistics

Sustainable Paper Packaging for E-Commerce, mail order and logistics

The flexible paper e-com fit paper packaging machine automatically adapts the shipping bag size to varying product dimensions. Storing paper rolls of two different widths enables minimised paper consumption. The paper e-com fit machine version packs goods with two sewn sides plus a top overlap.

Sustainable Paper Packaging for E-Commerce, mail order and logistics

Sustainable Paper Packaging for E-Commerce, mail order and logistics

The flexible paper X e-com paper packaging machine enables the use of sustainable packaging materials by handling uncoated and coated paper for e-commerce packaging applications. It automatically adapts the shipping bag size to a varying product length to minimise material consumption.

Paper Packaging for Long Parts

Paper Packaging for Long Parts

The Hugo Beck paper X range offers multiple machine versions tailored per customer requirements. Providing versatile packaging for individual product requirements, the paper X series can process a wide range of packaging materials, including barrier paper, uncoated kraft paper, offset paper, parchment paper and other recyclable papers with PE, PLA or dispersion coatings, as well as working with all types of film such as PE, PO, PP, bioplastics and recycled content films.

Shrink wrapping of chocolate boxes

Shrink wrapping of chocolate boxes

Watch our video to see a Hugo Beck servo X shrink wrapping system in action for chocolate boxes with a perfect finish.

WILDPLASTIC® shipping film bags for E-Commerce

WILDPLASTIC® shipping film bags for E-Commerce

Our servo X e-com (fit) packaging machines can handle shipping bags made from WILDPLASTIC®. The term "wild plastic" describes all the plastic that currently exists outside the closed recycling loop – in streets, illegal and open dumps, and in nature. Such bags are already being used by OTTO in the mail order business. The bag size is automatically adapted to varying product sizes in length and width.

Hugo Beck flowpack X fully automated with SEW-EURODRIVE

Hugo Beck flowpack X fully automated with SEW-EURODRIVE

How it was possible to realize a compressed air-free and energy-efficient packaging machine with SEW-EURODRIVE you can see in this video.

Hugo Beck corporate video

Hugo Beck corporate video

Would you like to pack your products sustainably?

Together we will see how your products can be packed in either paper or film in a resource-saving way.

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