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Polyfuze Fusion Labeling Technology provides the ultimate sustainable solution for labeling polyolefin providing environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health and environment over its whole life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials until the final recyclable disposal.
How To Become Sustainable!
By saving time, eliminating scrap, removing non-value add secondary
operations, and maximizing the efficiency of labor and materials throughout your labeling process.
Labels must be 100% recyclable too.
Drives Optimization
100% Recyclable at End of Life
Drives Optimization
How Polyfuze Affects Optimization
Production Optimization refers to the various activities a company uses for measuring, analyzing, modeling, prioritizing and implementing actions that enhance productivity.
Because products, parts, and components demand labeling as a step in production, it falls into this production optimization category. Unfortunately, many manufacturing companies fail to recognize the true costs associated with their labeling activities.
Labeling activities can be considered one part of the “Hidden Factory,” or parts of a manufacturing process that decrease the quality or efficiency of an operation while representing the untapped capacity of your manufacturing plant.
Because products, parts, and components demand labeling as a step in production, it falls into this production optimization category. Unfortunately, many manufacturing companies fail to recognize the true costs associated with their labeling activities.
Labeling activities can be considered one part of the “Hidden Factory,” or parts of a manufacturing process that decrease the quality or efficiency of an operation while representing the untapped capacity of your manufacturing plant.
Take for example, In Mold Labeling (IML). After significant capital equipment investments, manufacturers incorporate a process into their system that adds several seconds per cycle by placing IML’s into an injection mold. Those few seconds, while small, add up over the span of a year especially when companies run 24/7, 365. That extra time means additional labor. Add scrap to that ratio and the per part process costs (raw materials, labels, etc.) have just doubled.
Labeling polyolefin thermoplastics with traditional adhesive based methods typically adds secondary pre-treatment processes in order to create bonding sites for labeling to stick. As with any additional process, additional time and labor is necessary to production activities.
Efficiency is key to removing the labeling bottlenecks of the hidden factory.
Polymer Fusion Labeling Technology adds no additional process time, has a proven track record of low scrap, and helps manufacturing maintain a consistent output to drive optimization.
Labeling polyolefin thermoplastics with traditional adhesive based methods typically adds secondary pre-treatment processes in order to create bonding sites for labeling to stick. As with any additional process, additional time and labor is necessary to production activities.
Efficiency is key to removing the labeling bottlenecks of the hidden factory.
Polymer Fusion Labeling Technology adds no additional process time, has a proven track record of low scrap, and helps manufacturing maintain a consistent output to drive optimization.
100% Recyclable at End of Life
How Polyfuze Affects Recycling
“To be profitable, recycling processors must make a product that when sold creates profit that supports the rest of the manufacturing chain” says Dave Cornell, technical consultant to the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
Not only is high density polyethylene (HDPE) the most widely used plastic in the world today, it’s also one of the most environmentally sustainable & recycled plastics in the world along with other polyolefins within that thermoplastic family.
Recycling HDPE for secondary use into other products is a relatively simple and cost-effective process. Roughly 25-100% of HDPE has been recycled into products we use today.
Recyclers want to have clean recyclate. Grade A bales get the best price and are most sought after by buyers of recycleable HDPE especially if it will be used again in durable goods.
5% of Grade A bales are composed of incompatible labels such as hot stamp foils, screen printed inks, pressure sensitive adhesive labels, heat transfer labels and IML’s that cannot be recycled, a problem for the recycling industry! Those labels must either be physically removed, which is labor intensive, costly and time consuming or, they are left in the recyclate as contaminate. Labels that are removed become waste that must be managed and discarded into landfills.
Unlike incompatible labels, only Polymer Fusion Labeling from Polyfuze are 100% compatible, and 100% recyclable with all polyolefin thermoplastics. And because they are made from 100% compatible polyolefin, any polyolefin product that’s reached its end of life and is placed into the recycle system yields 100% clean recyclate! Nothing to remove, nothing to throw away in a landfill, zero waste.
Not only can Polyfuze help improve impact on the environment, it reduces the amount of unnecessary waste through the entire recycling and cost analysis stream.