Basf and Fabbri Group develop certified compostable cling film for fresh-food packaging

Basf and Fabbri Group have developed a sustainable cling film for use in fresh-food packaging.

Based on Basf’s certified compostable ecovio, Fabbri Group produced the highly transparent stretch film Nature Fresh.

Meat, seafood as well as fruit and vegetables can be wrapped manually or with automatic packaging equipment. According to the businesses, it is the first certified compostable cling film that combines breathability for an extended shelf life of fresh food with high transparency and mechanical properties for automatic packaging.

Nature Fresh is food-contact approved according to US and European standards.

After usage Nature Fresh can be composted together with any food waste in home compost or industrial compost according to national legislation.

Carsten Sinkel from global business development biopolymers at Basf said: “Our certified compostable ecovio enables the production of a cling film that prolongs shelf life of fresh food and at the same time can be composted after use together with organic waste according to national legislation.”

In order to find the perfect match of a sustainable material with packaging properties and easy wrapping, Basf and Fabbri Group joined to develop a cling film which can also be efficiently used on stretch wrapping machines.

Stefano Mele, CEO at Fabbri Group: “The Fabbri new way to sustainability is combining our Nature Fresh solution with our new Automac NF wrappers so that the food packaging industry can benefit twice: from an innovative cling film and easy film processing. In this way our certified compostable cling film can be used together with trays and labels of the same kind in order to have a complete compostable packaging.”

Fabbri Group offers Nature Fresh in four different formats: as rolls for manual or automatic packaging machines in industrial food packaging, for cutter boxes in hotels, restaurants and catering services, as jumbo rolls for converters as well as rolls for end consumer hand-wrapping applications.