PFF Packaging of sustainable packaging , offering the food industry an environmentally friendly process from start to finish . Its services include extrusion and thermoforming , dry offset printing , and injection molding , but with the common factor of being formed from food-grade recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate ( rPET ). This contains up to 90 percent recycled material , over 50 percent of which is post-consumer waste . On average , it converts over 6000 tons of post-consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate ( PET ) bottles and trays back into rPET food packaging every year – this equates to around 600,000,000 , 500 milliliter bottles being repurposed !
Informing consumers
Aside from food packaging , PFF was selected by the UK Department for Health and Social Care to manufacture disposable aprons , supplying the UK ’ s National Health Service ( NHS ) with much-needed Personal Protective
Equipment ( PPE ) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic . Proud to support the NHS , the company invested in new machinery and dedicated an area of its site to the constant production of aprons . It also rebranded as PFF Group ( formerly PFF Packaging ) to reflect its work in both the food and health industries .
Returning to the food industry , Kenton explains : “ Consumers are smarter than ever with regards to sustainable packaging , and environmental considerations are becoming increasingly important in every aspect of our lives . However , some consumers are still manipulated into incorrectly thinking certain products are more sustainable than others . We must overcome this by eradicating greenwashing from the market , bringing an understanding of the total lifecycle and carbon footprint of a product to the forefront of the industry .”
Informing consumers of a product ’ s total lifecycle is exactly what PFF ’ s own innovation ,
▲ Kenton Robbins , Group Managing Director at PFF Group manufacturing-today . com 71