Greener, safer packaging
September 1st 2007

Interactive Packaging Solutions says it is sensitive to the wider issues associated with packaging.

In addition to the immediate requirements of packaging, IPS is concerned with the strategic issues including logistics and the environment. An example of this consultancy in action is the heattreated plyboard clip cases, which were tailor made for a major UK manufacturer of medical and scientific instruments.

The steel clips can be unclipped to enable the entire case to be reused.

The cases use laminated panels, which are heat-treated to kill pests typically found in untreated raw-wood packaging. These pests – including the Asian long-horn beetle and Pine Wood Nematode – have spread across the world through wooden packaging materials, which has prompted many countries to introduce regulations to ban their use. IPS also recognises that the reuse and re-cycling of packaging materials is an important and irreversible tend.

"As well as the wide range of environmental measures we can help put in place, IPS is also a registered re-cycler of both proprietary and other company's packaging materials," says managing director Andrew Laundy.

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