Magazine: A future wrapped in sustainability

The economic aftermath of the pandemic made packaging manufacturers face a 30 per cent drop in orders.

Izabella Bauer
commercial manager
BS Plastic

Buying a rollbag-making machine has been a major investment for us, by means of which we can also enlarge our product portfolio – Izabella Bauer, commercial manager of BS PlasticTM Magyarország told. The company leads in bio-based product development that has been rewarded with the Symbol of Sustainability 2020 and recycles 100 per cent of the waste produced while manufacturing.

Kálmán Magyar
managing director
AMCO

AMCO Kft. adjusted its offering to the pandemic and was focusing in the spring on products that provide sound product protection against the virus, Kálmán Magyar, managing director told. As regards environmental protection.

Levente Szabó
sales and marketing director
DS Smith

At DS Smith employee health and reliable business operation remain top priorities, in addition to sustainability issues, especially challenges that affect future generations, Levente Szabó, sales and marketing director told. In October, the company inaugurates an eco-classroom in the Dezső Paizs Elementary School. The company’s latest innovation is the ECO Bowl made from cardboard covered with a plastic film, in which fresh and frozen food can be packed.

Ferenc Rózsa
managing director
Poly-Pack Kiskunhalas

After an intensive upward trend, demand and supply balanced out at Poly-Pack Kiskunhalas Kft. by the end of Quarter 2. In an effort to ward off the virus, demand for contact-less shopping, i.e. packaged food and single-use foil gloves increased, Ferenc Rózsa managing director said. In response to the growing demand for environmental-friendly packaging, the company purchased supplementary equipment used for the production of PLA products.

Sixty per cent of STI Petőfi Nyomda Kft’s sales come from export and the company concentrates on the Western-European region, which is why it was not hit hard by the pandemic, but saw excess demand, instead. Since the company was enhancing its production capacity in the past few years, it could timely perform also in these turbulent times, as well as at seasonal peaks.

György Kolozsvári
sales director
STI Petőfi Nyomda

Endre Fábián
managing director
STI Petőfi Nyomda

István Szebellédi
environmental manager
STI Petőfi Nyomda

Zsolt Miklós
managing director
Rondo

Rondo Kft. did not perceive any major change in the ruling packaging trends, but a significant increase in the demand for packaging materials. Zsolt Miklós, managing director thinks that Covid-19 will further boost the online sales mainly of technical consumer products, whereby packaging design tends to get simplified and based on the use of brown materials. //

VPK Packaging: The overarching vision of the future for environmental responsibility

From October 2020 VPK’s corrugated packaging division will operate under a single brand name: VPK Packaging. CEO Pierre Macharis told: ‘Our aim is to take sustainable growth to the next level, both ecologically and economically.’ VPK Packaging Salonta offers a wide expertise in standard packaging, from American boxes to folder gluer boxes, jumbo boxes to shelf-ready packaging and other standard FEFCO references. //