With its headquarters and production in Settimo Milanese (MI), Cartonspecialist Srl has made sustainability and innovation its growth drivers. For 15 years, this operator has produced and distributed BIOPAP® brand food containers, made from renewable raw materials and used successfully in a wide array of fields: mass catering (for facilitating hot, cold and frozen meals with cook&chill and cook&freeze), frozen ready meals, MAP fresh ready meals, fresh ready meals for fresh service counter at retailers and gastronomy.
«The main reason we are presenting at IPACK-MAT is to find new Italian and international customers» explains Filippo Rossi, the company’s Commercial Manager. «The nature of this fair, which emphasizes sustainability in food and non-food packaging, perfectly responds to our goals and expectations, which, we’re convinced, will not be disappointed. Moreover we will offer high tech, high performance packaging solutions featuring additional unique green features. These are winning elements in our target sectors, which is to say industrial food packaging, retail and mass catering».
Naturally high tech. Cartonspecialist will be exhibiting an innovative solution at the show in Milan, developed following intensive research work and substantial investments. BIOPAP® MAP is a biodegradable and compostable cellulose container that is ATM/ATP compatible «which – as ingegner Michelangelo Anderlini, inventor and technical head points out, «in addition to being a completely Made in Italy solution, represents an innovation to both material and process. Indeed, this is the world’s first cellulose food container that is resistant to very low as well as very high temperatures (from -40 °C to +175 °C, from the blast chiller directly to the oven or microwave, Editor’s note). However, this is not its only achievement: it is also the first heatsealable container that is compatible with ATM/ATP, with characteristics analogous to equivalent plastic containers». Cartonspecialist has imagined, developed and created something completely new and different that perfectly complies with existing industry standards.
«We wanted to offer a solution that caters to informed consumers, those more attentive to sustainability and who, when it comes to packaging, appreciate products that respect environment and are inspired by it. It’s no coincidence that BIOPAP® MAP is made from one of the first materials used by man, paper…».
