en.Wedoany.com Reported - PureCycle Technologies has partnered with Innovia Films, a global manufacturer of packaging, graphic, and label films, to successfully produce and validate a white cavitated biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film containing over 40% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.
Produced using PureCycle's PureFive Choice resin, the film is expected to be marketed to brand owners seeking to incorporate recycled content into white cavitated BOPP structures without compromising performance.
White cavitated BOPP film is widely used in food contact applications, including candy wrappers, ice cream novelty packaging, snack packaging, and roll-fed labels. Its cellular structure provides high opacity, weight reduction, excellent printability, and a paper-like feel, while maintaining the mechanical strength and moisture barrier properties required for food packaging. The successful use of PCR-rich resin in this demanding film format expands the range of applications where recycled polypropylene can compete with virgin materials.
As one of the few sources of food contact-compliant recycled polypropylene on the market, PureCycle's PureFive resin is expected to help processors and brand owners increase the use of recycled content while navigating evolving sustainability and regulatory targets. Chris Freshwater, Marketing Manager at Innovia Films, stated that the film produced with PureFive resin represents a significant milestone and shift in the sustainability of flexible packaging. R&D experts have been seeking to enhance product sustainability, and PureCycle's dissolution recycling technology introduces post-consumer recycled content into the film while employing energy-efficient recycling processes.
Innovia conducted process evaluations throughout the trial, assessing the resin's performance across the entire cavitated BOPP production sequence. According to both companies, the processing performance of PureFive Choice resin is comparable to virgin polypropylene grades commonly used in commercial film production. Tests also showed that films made with varying levels of PureFive Choice resin exhibited mechanical, barrier, and sealing properties comparable to those made with virgin PP—key requirements for packaging line efficiency and product protection.
Pete Dias, Senior Director of Market, Product, and Application Development at PureCycle, stated that the successful production of white cavitated BOPP film is an important step for both PureCycle and the flexible packaging industry. Brand owners have been seeking ways to incorporate certified recycled content without compromising performance or appearance, and the collaboration with Innovia demonstrates that PureFive resin can meet these requirements while supporting the broader adoption of PCR in flexible packaging.
The resin grade used in the trial is a single-pellet formulation designed specifically for film applications. PureCycle's PureFive Choice product portfolio is designed to provide processors with the processing consistency and application performance typically associated with virgin resins, while incorporating post-consumer recycled content. All PureFive resins are produced using PureCycle's patented dissolution recycling process, which removes color, odor, and other contaminants from post-consumer polypropylene, resulting in a recycled resin suitable for a wide range of end-use applications.
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