Microline’s portfolio features solutions designed to offer both savings for customers and a lower carbon footprint for the environment. Models like the AL80, FlowWrap, FastWrap and EcoWrap are designed to eliminate excessive use of materials, while simultaneously ensuring high performance and environmental sustainability. The AL80, Microline’s best-selling model, perfectly embodies its commitment to sustainability and efficiency. Designed to meet high production performance demands, it significantly reduces energy consumption by affording continuous operating cycles and minimal use of wrapping film. This approach allows material savings of up to 30% compared to traditional machines, helping to reduce the overall environmental impact as a result. 

The FlowWrap and FastWrap machines have been designed to ensure flexibility, so as to adapt to different product formats and types without affecting efficiency. The versatility of these models once again translates into less wrapping material waste, as well as optimised format change times, thereby decreasing the environmental impact of the entire packaging process. EcoWrap 1050, on the other hand, stands out for its environmental approach. This model dedicated to the Tissue industry uses eco-compatible films and minimises the wastage of the material employed during the packaging process, while being extremely user-friendly and offering great operational efficiency. The machines mentioned above are an example of how Microline combines technological innovation and sustainability research to meet the demands of a market that increasingly focuses on eco-compatible solutions.

Research into materials: compatibility with different wrapping materials

Microline also dedicates considerable resources to research and development, working with a number of technological partners, including companies that design and manufacture environmentally-sustainable packaging films. The company therefore decided to run a series of tests on its machines aimed at verifying the handling and performance of environmentally-friendly packaging products.  These specific tests were carried out by analysing the packing and overpacking on different product ranges, including individual AFH-type rolls and bundled bags of coffee. The films were found to be perfectly compatible with Microline’s machinery range, with results on a par with the equivalent plastic products in terms of both mechanical strength and pack quality and performance. It was not necessary to make any hardware changes to the machines, which only require a simple change of parameter settings on the HMI panel to be able to use the compostable or eco-sustainable films. This paves the way for the massive use of this type of film in the consumer packaged goods sector, and that of Tissue products for consumer or industrial use, and many more besides. Increasingly deeper knowledge of materials and their behaviour enriches the company’s know-how and can be an important aspect to be shared with customers.

In short, Microline is committed to reducing its environmental footprint by implementing increasingly efficient energy solutions. The machines are conceived to minimise energy consumption and use high-quality parts that ensure long-term reliability, thereby reducing the need for maintenance and the overall environmental impact of packaging operations. The possibility of using sustainable and environmentally compatible packs on Microline machines further expands the company’s potential and propensity towards an increasingly human-friendly future.