Amcor The World's Largest Supplier of Flexible Packaging

Amcor is a global leader in delivering responsible packaging solutions and offers an extensive range of flexible packaging. Amcor delivers innovative, responsible and effective packaging solutions for food, beverage, home and personal care, pharmaceutical and medical products, and industrial products. The company employs more than 31,000 people worldwide, operating in over 40 countries and across more than 190 sites.

Flexible packaging for dry, fresh and prepared food

Amcor produces a wide range of flexible packaging for all major food segments, including fresh produce, dairy, meat, fish, poultry, snacks, confectionery, frozen foods, ready meals, and retort foods (human and pet food).

Packaging for coffee, tea and ready-to-drink beverages

Amcor offers multiple packaging solutions specifically designed for coffee, tea, and beverage powders. Our solutions can be tailored to whole bean, ground and instant coffee. We can also create drink pouches for water, juices and ready-to-drink beverages (non-alcoholic and alcoholic).

Flexible packaging for home and personal care products

We have product offerings for many segments of the home care market including laundry and cleaning products. For personal care products we offer pouches and sachets (primary packages, samplers, magazine inserts) for hair care and skin care including very aggressive and hard-to-hold products. We have experience in packaging solutions for wipes, dental whitening strips, contact lenses, bag-on-valve laminates, and more.

Flexible packaging for pharmaceuticals

We have product offerings in stick packs, sachets, and blister packaging for drugs (push-through foil and formed bottoms), inhalables, transdermal, wipes and other areas of pharmaceutical packaging.

Sterilisable medical device packaging

Amcor’s offering includes cost-effective medical packaging solutions to protect and maintain the sterility of medical devices for various requirements, including breathable pouches as well as packaging for bandages, syringes and needles, catheters and tubing, surgical packs, gloves, gowns and table drapes, etc.

Industrial product packaging

Amcor has flexible packaging for ink cartridges, pool chemicals, adhesives, automobile maintenance, agricultural products and many more areas of specialty industrial packaging.

Amcor’s unique packaging options

Contact us about Amcor’s many unique packaging offerings including:

• AmLite, AmLite Ultra and AmLite HeatFlex high barrier aluminium-free laminates
• CanSeal Pro direct seal aluminium membrane for can ends
• Cheese foil for processed cheeses
• Cheese wraps and flow packs tailored to meet the specific needs of hard and soft cheeses
• Dessiflex® blister packaging and sachets for pharmaceutical
• Formpack® and Formpack® Ultra blister packaging for pharmaceutical
• N-Gage lidding film for direct seal onto APET base trays for sliced meat, cheeses and other food
• Packpyrus paper-based dairy and meat packaging
• P-Plus® tailored permeability films for fresh produce bags and liners
• ProtectValve film with venting system for microwave cooking of fresh fruits and vegetables
• PushPop® unique, wide opening stand up pouch for easy snacking
• Vento® coffee packaging with integrated venting system
• ZipSpeed high-speed laminate for stand up pouches with zipper closures

Amcor’s environmental packaging initiatives

Amcor is committed to responsible packaging, ensuring that contents arrive at their destinations safety. Responsible packaging is also achieved through manufacturing using the correct amount of the best materials, using best practices, and minimising waste. Groups we partner with include:

• Carbon Disclosure Project
• Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastics Economy
• European Union Product Environmental Footprinting Project
• Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF)
• Ocean Conservancy Trash Free Seas Alliance
• Project REFLEX (Recycling of Flexible Packaging)
• The Recycling Partnership
• Responsible Aluminium Initiative
• SaveFood Initiative
• Sedex (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange)
• Sustainable Packaging Coalition
• World Food Programme

Amcor’s sustainable packaging experts consult with our customers on material selection, pack design, product protection and the lifecycle impacts of packaging options. ASSET is Amcor’s in-house lifecycle assessment tool. ASSET calculations are available for raw material supplies, conversion to final packaging, and end-of-life for post-consumer packaging waste. In addition, operations can be provided for distribution and filling.

ASSET has certification from the Carbon Trust, a well-respected organisation and leading carbon footprint auditing body. Using the ASSET tool, Amcor offers carbon footprint evaluations that meet key standards in this field (Greenhouse Gas Protocol Product Standard, PAS2050).

Award-winning flexible packaging

Amcor is the proud winner of many innovation and environmental awards, including:

• 2016 DuPont Award – Gold, Technological Advancement and Responsible Packaging: Formpack® Ultra
• 2016 DuPont Award – Diamond, Technological Advancement, Responsible Packaging, Enhanced User Experience: 100% Post-consumer recycled PET bottle for Method
• 2016 World Dairy Innovation Awards (WDIA) – Best Dairy Packaging Design: Kerry Foods Yollies
• 2016 WPO Worldstar Award – Dessiflex®
• 2016 WPO Worldstar Award – AirFluSal® Forspiro® inhaler with Formpack® for Sandoz International
• 2016 WPO Worldstar Award – STELVIN® Inside
• 2016 WPO Worldstar Award – Hot fill rigid plastics bottle for Lipton® Pandora
• 2015 UK Packaging Awards – Highly Commended, Best Packaging of a New Product: Kerry Foods Yollies
• 2015 UK Packaging Awards – Resource Efficient Pack of the Year: ColaLife FlexiPack
• 2015 FPA Award – Gold, Technical Innovation: Dessiflex®
• 2015 FPA Award – Silver, Annual Achievement Award