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Transparent containers for the food and pharmaceutical industries: Jokey launches production of PET packaging using the ISBM process. The plastic is largely made from recycled material.
The North Rhine-Westphalia-based packaging manufacturer Jokey is expanding its product portfolio to include PET packaging produced using the Injection Stretch Blow Molding (ISBM) process, which consists of the highest possible proportion of recycled rPET plastic. The raw material for this comes from post-consumer waste collection. "The ISBM process and the use of rPET meet our requirements for efficiency and sustainability and are consistent with our goal of a circular economy for plastic packaging," says Mateusz Buliński, Business Development Manager at Jokey Poland. The new product line will be manufactured at the Kędzierzyn-Koźle site in Upper Silesia.
In spring 2021, the newly built Spanish plant Jokey Iberica went into operation, and now the new photovoltaic system has been completed. The state-of-the-art plant in Murcia, the capital of the eponymous region in southern Spain, uses the latest technical standards in terms of production facilities and building technology, making it significantly more efficient and energy efficient than the old, much smaller plant. The installed solar panels help to further reduce the CO2 footprint during production.
Use of solar power is part of Jokey’s sustainability strategy
Jokey, one of the leading manufacturers of plastic packaging, started its roadshow again this year, with its first customer visits in northern Germany.
After a two-year break due to corona, the “Jokey 2 you” roadshow is back live with customers for the first time. The unique concept provides a wide range of uses for the roadshow mobile as a showroom, trade fair booth, or mobile conference room. To kick things off again, the roadshow team toured northern Germany at the beginning of July to visit customers.
The Jokey Group, one of the leading manufacturers of plastic packaging, has developed a bucket with a sealing lid for filling dispersion paints together with its long-standing customer Meffert. The internationally active Meffert AG Farbwerke, headquartered in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, primarily produces paints and varnishes in addition to plasters and building protection products. The sealing technology ensures the quality characteristics of the product even more strongly than before and thus optimises the processing procedure.
In 2020, both companies started initial test series for the development of the sealing lids. For the buckets, Jokey relies on the oval JETO+, which has already proven itself millions of times over as packaging for paints, adhesives, and other building materials. The Jokey developers also drew on extensive experience: on the one hand, Jokey has decades of expertise in sealing food packaging; and on the other hand, the developers have also been experimenting for a long time with different approaches to sealing techniques in close cooperation with Jokey customers from the non-food sector. From the series of tests with Meffert, a sealing technology has now been developed for the first time for a customer from the paint industry: the SIFO technology. The acquisition of a high-performance, fully automatic filling line with bucket sealing enabled Meffert AG Farbwerke to start filling the first SIFO containers in December 2021. At the beginning of 2022, the 15-litre JETO+ 150 container with special sealing lid was successfully launched on the market. Other sizes are in the planning stage.
New Loop and Jokey set a full circular economy in motion: New Loop uses recyclable returnable packaging from Jokey to set up a digitalized deposit system in Scandinavia.
New Loop has an ambitious goal: to establish a unified, digital deposit system for takeaway and convenience packaging. The Jokey Group as a cooperation partner supplies insulating coffee cups, sushi trays and salad bowls for the reusable system. “The future-oriented cooperation with New Loop marks a milestone on the way to creating a closed-loop, resource-conserving circular economy and an increased awareness of the importance of reusable packaging,” underlines Jens Stadter, CEO Jokey Group.
The Jokey Group has launched a cooperation in Poland together with Henkel Adhesives Technologies and Akpol, a Polish specialist in plastics recycling.
The collaboration aims to advance the circular economy in both the plastics industry and the construction sector and further solidify sustainability along the entire value chain. The three companies have already been active in a pilot project with fully recyclable packaging since 2021. The project explores the possibilities of closed loops, where raw materials are kept in strictly closed cycles. To ensure this, Henkel as brandowner, Jokey as a specialist in sustainable packaging solutions and Akpol as an expert in plastics recycling work closely together: Henkel fills construction products for the Polish market in recyclate buckets from Jokey, to which Akpol supplies the raw materials recovered through recycling. These come from a customized collection system. In this process, used Jokey buckets are specifically collected from construction sites and delivered to Akpol for recycling. The company recovers high-quality post-consumer recyclate from it through mechanical recycling and supplies it back to Jokey for the production of new recyclate buckets. After the test phase, the project will be analyzed and expanded if the closed loop is successful.
The Jokey Group, one of the leading manufacturers of plastic packaging, has agreed on a cooperation with the Austrian plastics producer Borealis, in order to jointly accelerate action on circularity. Borealis is one of the world’s leading providers of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions and a European market leader in base chemicals and the mechanical recycling of plastics.
The objective of the intensified cooperation is to combine the innovative strengths of both companies over a period of at least two years while actively promoting the development and marketing of recyclable plastic packaging. The focus is set on the continuous improvement of new sustainable and resource-efficient solutions, which are suitable for the highest customer demands and reinforce the circular economy. Borealis’ and Jokey’s teams of experts are continuously exploring possible uses of renewable materials in order to evaluate their performance. In a previous project-related cooperation, Jokey already purchased more than 100 tonnes of Bornewables™ renewable polypropylene from Borealis. This year, 110 metric tonnes of high-quality post-consumer recyclate (PCR) will go into Jokey’s production, supplied to Jokey from the state-of-the-art plant for post-consumer plastic waste sorting and advanced mechanical recycling in Lahnstein, Germany, co-operated by Borealis. The plant, which opened in early 2021, is expected to supply 300 metric tonnes of high-quality PCR to Jokey in 2022 for further processing into advanced customer packaging solutions.
Reuse instead of waste, recycle instead of incinerate: in the future, the Jokey Group and WWF Germany would like to jointly promote a functioning circular economy for plastic packaging.
One goal of the collaboration is closed-loop plastic streams that enable reuse and produce high-quality recyclate. The Jokey Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers of plastic packaging. With WWF as a partner, the family-owned company will continue to minimize its environmental footprint, integrate sustainability into all areas of the business and develop effective approaches along the value chain.
End consumers increasingly demand environmentally friendly packaging. The on-going public debate about the use of plastic packaging has placed a greater responsibility on business to provide more sustainable packaging at the point of sale. Especially if they advertise the environmental friendliness of their products and follow a recognisable sustainability strategy.
Against this backdrop, we are seeing a number of our customers advance their solutions to the overuse of plastic packaging and seek out more sustainable alternatives. One such customer is Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable construction and building products business.
As part of her "Green Transformation Tour through NRW," the state chairwoman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Mona Neubaur, visited the Jokey site in Gummersbach on June 10. The politician was accompanied by Marc Zimmermann, spokesman for the Green Party's district association.
The Jokey management, represented by CEO Jens Stadter and CFO Peter Dörmbach, as well as other leading Jokey representatives such as shareholder Heike Schuy welcomed the guests and invited them to an open exchange of views followed by a tour of the plant and a talk with apprentices.