COEXPAN and EMSUR will present their latest developments in rigid and flexible packaging at Latinpack Chile


The first edition of Latinpack Chile tradeshow, a meeting point for key players in the packaging industry, will welcome Grupo Lantero’s two divisions specialized in rigid and flexible packaging for the food industry. This event that aims to be a benchmark in the Latin American packaging market will focus this year on issues such as sustainability, innovation and digitization in the industry.

COEXPAN, which has two plants in Chile, will be presenting at Latinpack its latest developments in rigid sheets and thermoformed products for fresh foods such as meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, and for ready meals and dairy products, among others. A wide-ranging portfolio of products that offers increasingly efficient and sustainable personalized packaging solutions with medium and high barrier structures that guarantee optimal preservation of foodstuffs for a longer time.

EMSUR, the flexible packaging division with four plants in America, will be represented at Latinpack by EMSUR Argentina, the country’s leading manufacturer of packaging for the dairy industry. Over the two-day event EMSUR will be presenting its flexible packaging solutions for dairy products, snacks and confectionary, personal care and hygiene. The company’s expertise lies in sleeves, multi-layer sheets with medium to high barrier protection, as well as a wide variety of finishes and the muchdemanded OPS wrap-around banderoles.

First printing machine with In Direct Flexo technology in South America, based on the principles of the Circular Economy.

Within the framework of Latinpack tradeshow, COEXPAN Chile announces that it would be incorporating a new printer into its range of machinery. The printer with In Direct Flexo technology is the first of its kind in the American sub-continent and combines the speed of offset printing and the quality of flexography, guaranteeing clear, precise photographic quality printing and generating high-quality, mono-material packaging solutions in line with the principles of the Circular Economy.

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Recycled post-consumer PET bottle decontamination systems.

Another of the projects that will be presented by COEXPAN Chile at the next Latinpack tradeshow is a system for decontaminating post-consumer PET obtained from recovered plastic bottles. Raw material cleaning and decontamination technology using EREMA and VACUREMA® machinery to produce clean, dry, dust-free PET flakes to make new rigid sheets and bottles apt for direct food contact, a technology that has been approved by the USA FDA and the European Union.

COEXPAN committed to sustainability

As Cristian Spoerer, General Manager of COEXPAN Chile explains: “Sustainability is the strategic pillar of our business”. At COEXPAN we have several innovation projects under way, both at local and international level, our aim being to drive forward new applications for recycled plastics and develop new sustainable packaging solutions using mono-materials and foamed materials, among others”.

COEXPAN also participatesas strategic partner in the LIFE EPS-SURE Project, based on Circular Economy principles anddestined to the design of a new collection, pre-treatment and recycling system of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) wastes to produce new high added value Polystyrene (PS) products suitable for food contact. More information http://coexpan.e-strategia.net/en/news/coexpan-takes-part-in-the-eps-sure-project

COEXPAN and EMSUR will be at Latinpack Chile, Stand C1.

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