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machinery system, and be confident they have the options needed as the market evolves.”

GPI is by no means the only company on the supply side of the packaging arena working diligently on paper-based substitutes for plastic ring carriers, and PACK EXPO International was a great place to catch up on at least three others:

• Krones o ers equipment for the standard LitePac Top, a flat piece of paperboard that holds cans together. But it also has equipment for LitePac Top Promo Skirt (6) should customers want more room for graphics and branding. Also part of the portfolio is equipment for LitePac Top for bottles where a paperboard strap or “banderole” provides additional holding properties ( 7 ). Krones in its approach to these novel packaging concepts stays focused on mechanical machine engineering and partners with a number of paperboard packaging material suppliers.

• KHS o ers a variety of paperboard can “toppers” that can be applied by its Innopack Kisters CNP (Carton Nature Packer) systems, including both a GreenClip option, which is a standard flat piece of paperboard that holds cans together, as well as the more premium-level TopClip (8) for more graphics and branding opportunities. Even more recently, KHS has introduced a paper wrapping concept that replaces plastic shrink film with paper (9). Like Krones, KHS focuses on the machinery side of the equation and partners with packaging machinery suppliers.

• Westrock ’s CanCollar family of sustainable beverage packaging solutions ( 10) comprises six options. Like GPI, Westrock takes the “razor and the razor blade” approach in going to market, as users of CanCollar technology purchase the paperboard from Westrock. In the center is CanCollar Classic. Left to right are CanCollar Shield, CanCollar Shield Plus, CanCollar EcoPlus, PremCollar, and CanCollar X. Most impressively, the CanCollar Fortuna machine featured at Westrock’s PACK EXPO booth is capable of producing five of the six members of the CanCollar family. This capability is due in large part to the machine’s use of the ACOPOStrak linear drive system from B&R a video of Westrock’s CanCollar Fortuna at pfwgo.to/7824 .