Sustainable packaging with expertise
Sustainable packaging is so much more than just a current trend. It is an economic factor that should not be underestimated in the future. With us, you have a partner at your side with comprehensive expertise and highly advanced technology. Our packaging machines excel with outstanding flexibility, durability and retrofitability. Our packaging developers and the Packaging Competence Center (PCC) also support you with expert in-depth knowledge to sustainably optimise your packaging and packaging processes in terms of materials, resources and future-proofing. Discover how sustainable packaging works with Schubert. Find out more under “Environmentally friendly machines and services” and “Sustainable packaging”.
Relentless when it comes to energy efficiency and recyclability
The more efficient packaging processes are, the more sustainable production and packaging can be. Our modular machine concept and the consistent use of robotics ensure an ideal foundation for this. Our modular system is so flexible that packaging machines can always be adapted to your specific requirements. “The machines can process conventional packaging materials, such as plastic trays or composite films, as well as sustainable packaging made of cardboard or recyclable flowpack films,” explains Jan Köhler, Head of Line Planning and Projects. Schubert works tirelessly to improve the energy efficiency and recyclability of its lines.
An important aspect of making machines more efficient and therefore more environmentally friendly is Schubert Service. Because we understand service not only in terms of machine technology, but as comprehensive support along all processes and over the machine’s entire lifecycle. With our CARE Digital Services, we analyse your line down to the last detail and increase efficiency and performance to the greatest extent possible. This is also what sustainable packaging is all about today.
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How Schubert packaging machines save energy
We are continuously working to further improve the energy efficiency of our machines. To achieve this, it is essential to know the power consumption of the various components such as robot drives, cooling, lighting and the like. This is why our experts analyse the machine data in detail in order to define the right levers for reducing consumption. For example, compressed air and drives are the biggest energy guzzlers in a packaging machine. With the information gained, our development team can implement new, more economical solutions. With the ECO dashboard, we also make some of the consumption data available in the customer portal.
Outstanding flexibility, retrofitability and proven durability are what make our packaging machines future-proof and sustainable for our customers.
Jan Köhler
Head of Line Planning and Projects
Flexible packaging with conventional and sustainable materials
The decision to package sustainably often means having to switch between conventional and more sustainable packaging materials over a longer timeframe. With Schubert’s modular machines, this is not a problem – even if new materials keep being added. Our highly flexible robot technology allows either plastic or cardboard to be processed in the packaging process without major adjustments. For example, as a plastic or cardboard tray, as a display box, a reusable box or as cardboard packaging without glue. We also have special sealing technologies that are so gentle that monofilms or paper-based flowpack films can also be used. And finally, we also design our systems and robot tools in such a way that a format change can be carried out in the shortest possible time. The machine can then immediately restart packing with impeccable quality without requiring any further start-up adjustments.
Our Flowpacker packs with all flowpack films, i.e. composite films, mono films and paper-based films.
Stefan Horvath
Process & machine engineering
Sustainable Packaging
Sustainable packaging thanks to material efficiency and waste avoidance
Packaging Competence Center
The customer is the one who makes the packaging decisions
At Schubert, it’s the customer who decides what type of packaging they would like to use for their products, not the packaging machine. And thanks to the expertise of the Packaging Competence Center, our customers find the best solution with us.
Because our machines can pack product into paper-based flowpacks and with composite films, into plastic and cardboard trays, into shipping cartons and reusable boxes or even into cartons without glue. How can we say this with one hundred percent certainty? “At our Schubert laboratory, we work with development partners to design sustainable packaging solutions for our customers and test them on our machines,” explains Michael Graf, Director Packaging Competence Center.
On request, we also work on our customers’ existing packaging and modify it, for example, in terms of volume and material consumption. If you want to optimise not only your packaging, but also your entire packaging process, the experts from Schubert-Consulting will support you as experienced consulting partners. Together with you, we will improve your packaging processes so that you benefit several times over. This extends to more sustainable logistics, for instance, when one more box then fits onto the pallet.
In every packaging and in every process, there is sustainable potential that we can tap into and leverage for our customers.
Michael Graf
Director Packaging Competence Center
Schubert Consulting
Schubert-Consulting: More sustainability throughout the entire process
Sustainable packaging means thinking about things differently – even beyond the issue of material. If only a few millimetres of cardboard can influence logistics, what are the effects at entirely different points along the supply chain? Schubert-Consulting helps you broaden your perspective. We bring everyone involved to the table at the beginning of a project: to find a joint solution that makes the actual packaging process as efficient as possible. Especially in packaging development, this collaboration is necessary, because packaging today has to fulfil many different requirements that go far beyond product protection and transport. This is how we can generate real business added value along the entire process chain – all the way to the consumer.
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