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A foil for all seasons

In the Sweet Spot between Performance and Sustainability

November 18, 2020

A new look for Santa Claus this Christmas! Wrapped in an innovative holographic foil developed at Constantia Pirk, our new chocolate foil changes his style based on your viewing angle. Innovative features like this – combined with the superior barrier properties and pioneering sustainability of our packaging – have made Constantia Flexibles a leading provider of aluminum foil wrappers for seasonal confectionery and popular pralines.

The chocolate Santa is always a crowd pleaser at Christmas, just like other favorite seasonal chocolates: from gold-wrapped baubles for the holiday tree and colorful Easter bunnies to ghoulish Halloween treats, and red-wrapped Valentine hearts. Aluminum foil from Constantia Flexibles is the ideal wrapper for these uniquely-shaped specialty items as well as “everyday” pralines individually foil-wrapped to suit their shape.

The ability to wrap virtually any shape is one strategic benefit of aluminum foil, sustainability is another. In keeping with our pledge to make all of our packaging recyclable by 2025, Constantia Flexibles is committed to producing recycling-ready confectionery wrappers. Our aluminum foils can be easily separated in existing waste streams and recycled in a process that uses only 5% of the energy required in the primary production of aluminum. Moreover, it can even be recycled infinite times with zero loss of quality, as explained in the video below. More progress towards our goal of reducing our overall carbon footprint and actively contributing to the circular economy!

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Aluminum foil for the confectionery sector comes in two main forms. The first is a soft, malleable foil, made from alloys with high content of pure aluminum. It is ideal for holding a tight wrap around three-dimensional shapes like seasonal chocolates and pralines. The second is a thicker, stiffer foil made of an aluminum alloy that is more suited to deep-drawing production. It is engineered to maintain its integrity even when elongated or stretched and is used to produce wrappers for hollow chocolate figures, chocolate coins, and other formed chocolate products.

Chocolate is a highly aromatic, sensitive product that puts any packaging material to the test, and the aluminum foil solutions from Constantia Flexibles pass with flying colors. In addition to being recycling-ready, our foils offer optimum barrier properties that prevent contamination and maintain product quality – even at very thin gauges. Sustainability is a factor here as well: full barrier protection increases shelf life and thereby prevents food waste, while thin-gauge foils save valuable natural resources.

Two recent innovations have strengthened Constantia Flexibles’ position at the forefront of confectionery packaging. The first is an innovative wrapper for chocolate Easter bunnies. The previous soft foil wrappers required a heat seal lacquer applied across the entire foil. Our new innovative technique produces a more rigid wrapper in two halves with deep drawing technology. This means that the heat seal lacquer has to be applied at the rim of the two halves only, which requires less lacquer – and therefore fewer resources – and still fully complies with food safety regulations to prevent migration. The second is an innovative foil with soft-touch haptics developed for a confectionery project. The wrapper has a unique silky effect thanks to the specialty lacquers we used on our signature confectionery foil.

Constantia Flexibles is the right partner for confectionery companies that want to stand out from the competition with innovative features and that are eager to make their contribution to the circular economy with more eco-friendly packaging. If your company is looking for a confectionery foil that is in that “sweet spot” between performance and sustainability, visit our product page and click on the Get in Touch button to find out more.

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