The company responsible for providing paper and packaging products, WestRock, announced that they are expanding CanCollar X to offer a variety of multipack solutions.
This is a large-format fiber-based solution that aims to make canned beverage containers sustainable, enabling a material reduction of up to fifty percent compared to traditional fully closed containers.
“With CanCollar X we have the opportunity to significantly reduce materials compared to fully enclosed cartons and replace difficult-to-recycle plastic shrink wrap with recyclable fiber-based packaging, improving circularity on an impressive scale.”said Chris Davidson, WestRock’s vice president of sustainability.
As the latest addition to the family of solutions automated by the patented CanCollar Fortuna platform, CanCollar X uses a similar minimalist fiber-based, glue-free design preferred by consumers to maximize can visibility, is convenient for consumers to handle, and optimizes material usage to bundle multipacks for larger formats.
CanCollar X is automated by the CanCollar Fortuna platform, a newly patented beverage packaging machine that uses a series of star wheels and metering screws along with a highly innovative linear drive system to seamlessly move containers through a path of travel in the machine, resulting in unprecedented accuracy of can orientation at high speeds.
“Our strong intellectual property portfolio anchors our ability to nurture and grow successful relationships as we seek to improve our planet.” said John Perkins, vice president of Global Packaging Systems. “It is through our uniquely integrated position in the industry that we can innovate with an expert perspective on all aspects of the process, from fiber sourcing to recycling, to arrive at thoughtful product design, make positive contributions to the circular economy and deliver on WestRock’s promise of a more sustainable future.” concluded the executive.
