{"id":2071,"date":"2020-12-07T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:50:06","slug":"focus-on-the-bopp-thin-gauges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/news\/focus-on-the-bopp-thin-gauges\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the BOPP Thin Gauges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Highlight on Toray\u2019s solution for the BOPP Thin Gauges<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Innovation<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>sustainability<\/strong>\u00a0have always been part of our core values. Toray aspires to offer the\u00a0<strong>best quality<\/strong>\u00a0products to its customers and is regularly aiming to\u00a0<strong>reduce the environmental impact<\/strong>\u00a0of our films. Besides our expertise in thin gauge PET films*, Toray has started to enlarge its offer on thin gauge BOPP films. Toray fully understands that across the market our customers are spending a lot of time, energy and resources to re-assess current packaging structures with a view to offering new alternatives for recyclability, bio-sourcing and mono-materials to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, BOPP metalized films can be laminated to other BOPP films to ensure the design of mono-material solutions. Secondly, our focus is to help customers reduce their potential burden due to future plastic tax implications.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the role of Toray is to propose\u00a0<strong>solutions<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>reducing the plastic quantity<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>without compromising the performance\u00a0<\/strong>and functionality of the packaging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>I \u2013 Toray: Expert of thin gages BOPP<\/h2>\n<p>To minimize the impact of plastic, Toray Films Europe has worked on the\u00a0<strong>development of thin gauges<\/strong>. \u00a0We offer professional expertise on our products that can be as thin as\u00a0<strong>8\u00b5m<\/strong>, whilst at the same time maintaining ease of processing and technical performance.\u00a0 Having the capability of producing lower thicknesses, TFE is offering its customers films which are\u00a0<strong>consistent in quality<\/strong>\u00a0and without compromising performance.<\/p>\n<p>The thickness reduction of our BOPP films allows, in fact,\u00a0<strong>many advantages<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2050 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36-1024x576.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NL-36-1000x563.png 1000w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>II \u2013 Performance of Toray\u2019s thin gages<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Potential Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less plastic helps reduce plastic tax burden<\/li>\n<li>Fewer kilos of product are required to produce the same number of impressions\/units<\/li>\n<li>Option for longer reel lengths on customer rolls<\/li>\n<li>Can be used in laminates with paper giving a low %age plastic content in the finished structure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recycling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The high expertise of Toray Films Europe allows the BOPP film to be laminated to paper in a ratio that will guarantee the minimum threshold required for the highest standards in the paper waste stream without compromising the packaging performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>III \u2013 Our thin gauge range<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2057 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-1.png 504w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-1-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-1-500x130.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/contact-us\/\">If you need more information, please contact us<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlight on Toray\u2019s solution for the BOPP Thin Gauges Innovation\u00a0and\u00a0sustainability\u00a0have always been part of our core values. Toray aspires to offer the\u00a0best quality\u00a0products to its customers and is regularly aiming to\u00a0reduce the environmental impact\u00a0of our films. Besides our expertise in thin gauge PET films*, Toray has started to enlarge its offer on thin gauge BOPP films. Toray fully understands that across the market our customers are spending a lot of time, energy and resources to re-assess current packaging structures with a view to offering new alternatives for recyclability, bio-sourcing and mono-materials to name but a few. Currently, BOPP metalized films can be laminated to other BOPP films to ensure the design of mono-material solutions. Secondly, our focus is to help customers reduce their potential burden due to future plastic tax implications. Today, the role of Toray is to propose\u00a0solutions\u00a0by\u00a0reducing the plastic quantity\u00a0without compromising the performance\u00a0and functionality of the packaging. &nbsp; I \u2013 Toray: Expert of thin gages BOPP To minimize the impact of plastic, Toray Films Europe has worked on the\u00a0development of thin gauges. \u00a0We offer professional expertise on our products that can be as thin as\u00a08\u00b5m, whilst at the same time maintaining ease of processing and technical performance.\u00a0 Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torayfilms.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}