FP International - Sustainable Packaging Loosefill and Inflatable Air Cushions Meets EN 13427 Standard for Compliance

USA, December 1, 2009 – FP International is admiring to advertise that their Biodegradable SUPER 8® loosefill and Biodegradable CELL-O® inflatable air cushions are adjustable with EN 13427 accepted of the European Packaging Directive, as certified by PIRA International, a arch absolute laboratory. EN 13427 is a European accepted for acceptable articles beneath the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and the Essential Requirements Regulation.

“Besides accepting adjustable with the acrimonious EN 13427 standard, the acceptance addendum that our SUPER 8 loosefill is fabricated of 100% recycled polystyrene which is a admired artefact affection because it agency a hardly recycled decay artefact is absent from landfill,” says Michael Kaminski, FP International Senior Vice President, Worldwide Engineering and R&D. “This avalanche in band with our Sustainable Packaging initiatives and helps abate the accountability on our environment,” adds Kaminski.

Part of the cradle-to-cradle access for acceptable articles includes how articles will be acclimated afterwards they accept accomplished their primary purpose. A acceptable artefact adjustable with EN 13427 standards have to be either recyclable, reusable, incinerated with a low calorific output, or biodegradable. Both the CELL-O inflatable air cushions and SUPER 8 loosefill can be reused and recycled. “Although these two articles do not biodegrade aural the abbreviate aeon appointed in the analogue of bartering compostable, they will biodegrade aural 9 to 60 months in the attendance of microorganisms,” says Kaminski. He goes on to say that, “our antecedent tests accept apparent our loosefill to absolutely biodegrade in admixture in as little time as nine months.”

The EN 13427 accepted aswell requires that adjustable articles do not accord off any abundant metal residues or accommodate any adverse or alarming substances.

About FP International:
Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., USA, FP International is a abreast captivated aggregation with over 500 advisers common and sales able-bodied in balance of $100 actor (U.S.) dollars in 2008.

FP International has U.S. accomplishment accessories in California, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky and Massachusetts. The aggregation has wholly endemic subsidiaries in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and a sales operation in Australia.

FP International is an ISO 9001, award-winning architect of innovative, careful packaging articles and packaging systems. The company’s articles cover packaging-made-on-site (PMOS), air cushions, Kraft cardboard cushioning and ready-to-use products: polyethylene foam, packing atom (loosefill) fabricated of 100 percent recycled polystyrene, bubble, and Kraft/bubble mailers. The aggregation has a band of environmentally affable packaging including Biodegradable articles that biodegrade in 9 to 60 months in the attendance of microorganisms. The aggregation aswell designs and installs custom dispensing/storage systems for air cushions and loosefill.

Today, with over 60 percent of absolute sales acquired from articles alien in the accomplished seven years, FP International is advised a arch innovator of both packaging articles and equipment.

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Press Contact:
Randy Green
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Redwood City, CA 94063 USA
Phone: 1-650-261-5300
Randy.green@fpintl.com