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Nestlé invests in recyclable PP cup
Left: Two major lines have been installed at the Smithtown factory, a cup filling and flow wrapping line.
cup, which was a poly coated, multi-wall, paper cup that was then inserted with an injection moulded polyethylene tub to carry the powder, which together pre- vented recycling of the cup.
What Wellman Packaging has achieved is a mono-material PP solution, removing the recycling impediment. The moulds were designed and built in Australia by Wellman’s in-house design and engineering team. ■
NESTLÉ PROFESSIONAL’S multi-mil- lion dollar investment in its Smithtown, NSW factory will
bolster local manufacturing and support collaborative product developments – starting with a new recyclable cup for Hot Chockee, developed in partner- ship with Wellman Packaging and 7-Eleven.
The Smithtown facility, where popular products like Milo, Nesquik and Nestlé hot choco- late are also made and packaged, will now have capacity to produce 4.7 million cups of Hot Chockee over the next twelve months. Hot Chockee, a ready-to-go cup filled with hot chocolate powder, was previously imported from Europe, making the project a big win for
manufacturing in Australia and specifically for Smithtown in regional NSW.
The new polypropylene (PP) Hot Chockee cup, including the PP label and foil seal, is accepted through kerbside recycling.
PKN spoke to Stephanie Rajczyk, Nestlé Manufacturing Services manager, Product Technology and Development, about the technology installed to support the cup production.
Rajcyk said two major lines have been installed at the Smithtown factory. One is a cup filling line which fills each cup with the right amount of product, and then seals the foil to the ledge inside the cup. The other is a flow wrapping machine which collates
and wraps the cups into sleeves of eight, ready for packing into cases. “The project has been in the works for over three years, but the development was delivered in 18 months. We’ve worked in part- nership with Wellman Packaging to develop the cup right here in
Australia,” Rajcyk said.
CEO of Wellman Packaging,
Craig Wellman explained that the new cup represents a significant advancement over the previous
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