PAC Machinery offers fiber-based product wrap system

PAC Machinery has designed new flow wrapping machinery to handle its recycled-content FiberFlex paper packaging material.

The Berea, Ohio-based company says it introduced FiberFlex, which can be made with wood chips or with 100 percent recovered paper, to provide flow wrapping device users and some PAC Machinery automatic bagging machines with “a high-performance, eco-friendly paper mailer made of recycled content that consumers can recycle curbside.”

Now, the PAC FW 650SI Flow Wrapper, which can accept FiberFlex, is a finalist in the MHI Innovation Awards competition in the inaugural “Best Innovation in Sustainability” category. Those awards are organized by North Carolina-based MHI, which initially was known as the Material Handling Institute.

According to PAC Machinery, MHI has received 192 submissions for this year’s awards. Three finalists have been chosen as the most innovative product in each category, with PAC Machinery making the cut in the sustainability category.

“PAC Machinery’s FW 650SI Flow Wrapper provides industries that need high speed flow wrapping with a complete plastic-free packaging system, including businesses in food, electronics, bakery, candy, manufactured parts, medical devices [and] others,” says the company, whose product line traditionally offer plastic wrapping and bagging systems.

The FW 650SI was introduced last October 2023, says PAC Machinery, as its first flow wrapper to package with both plastic films and Fiberflex.

“We are thrilled with the positive industry recognition that our new PAC FW 650SI Flow Wrapper has received, and to be a finalist in the new sustainable category really speaks volumes to our efforts in the past few years to really lead the way in providing more environmentally friendly packaging options as the market and customers require,” says Greg Berguig, vice president at PAC Machinery.

Winners of the MHI Innovation Awards will be announced at the upcoming MODEX Show on March 11-14 in Atlanta.