Hueck Folien Takes Major Strides Toward Eco-Neutral Production

Austrian-based film and foil specialist Hueck Folien is taking a number of steps to put its products at the forefront of sustainability and reach its goal of ecologically neutral production by 2035. This article describes two of those steps.

First is its high purity recycled aluminium, which is used to produce high-gloss metallised films for labels and which was first presented at Labelexpo 2023 in Brussels.

High-gloss metallisations require high-purity aluminium, and, previously, recycled aluminium with this purity standard was not available. Hence, Hueck Folien has set up a recycling circuit for industrial aluminium scrap – from collection to melting to wire drawing. It is the first company to have a supply chain for high quality recycled aluminium for vacuum evaporation onto films. The entire production at Hueck Folien has now been converted to high quality recycled aluminium, which is vacuum evaporated onto films.