The protection of customer health is the foremost responsibility of the food packaging supply chain. The new cartonboard grade FOODBOARD™ of Mayr-Melnhof Karton is a protected internal development representing a quantum leap in the protection of cartonboard packed foodstuff. The core component is an innovative, ecologically sensitive and consumer friendly barrier concept. Thereby packaged food is perfectly shielded against unintended substances from the packaging environment.
Over 5 years of research and development from 20 dedicated experts processing more than 14.000 individual migration analyses and the conversion of several million safe FOODBOARD™ boxes made this breakthrough technology ready for industrial production!
Comprehensive long-term series tests with leading multinational food producers prove the effectiveness of our migration barriers, highest converting standards and fastest packing line performance.
- FOODBOARD™ is a new, high quality coated recycling cartonboard with a unique functional barrier on the food contact side of the board.
- FOODBOARD™ is a pure cartonboard quality, not an extruded or laminated compound.
- FOODBOARD™ is fully recyclable, bio-degradable and will also be available FSC® & PEFC™ certified.
- FOODBOARD™ shields packed food against defined unintended substances such as mineral oils, Phtalates, DIPN and Bisphenol-A.
- FOODBOARD™ provides protection against “cross-contamination” from outer- & transportation packaging, printing inks and the environment.
This is achieved by a new board structure and the application of carefully selected migration barriers. FOODBOARD™ fulfills all European direct and indirect food contact regulations; the relevant certificates have been issued by independent European institutes.
FOODBOARD™ provides additional benefits such as an extended shelf-life for packed food, a barrier for greasy products and an outstanding organoleptic performance.
In Q1/2015, FOODBOARD™ will be supplied from the Austrian parent plant of MM Karton in Frohnleiten. A capital investment in a mid-double-digit million euro amount has been approved.
This important step will strengthen customer relations as well as the competitive technological position ofMM Karton.
Franz Rappold, Member of the MMK Management Board: ”FOODBOARD™ is a real breakthrough – an environmentally friendly cartonboard with completely new features which opens up packaging applications we could have never thought of before in the paper based packaging world.”
