Application Corner: MGX Green Bags
A lot of media attention has been given to sustainable practices, in our homes as well as in our businesses. We are all trying to bring green technology into our lives and into our industry. Polyethylene is a very common, diverse material for many packaging applications, and can be found in the form of bread bags, grocery bags, newspaper bags, direct mail and other retail packaging. However polyethylene is not an environmentally-friendly product, and takes over 600 years to break down in a landfill! So what if there was a plastic bag material that was durable, printable and also biodegradable? What if that product printed flawlessly on an Indigo press? And finally, what advantages would your business gain by adding polyethylene material to your Indigo-printed products?
Masterpiece Graphix now offers a revolutionary Green Bag material, an oxo-biodegradable polyethylene derived from natural gas feedstock. It is the first bag substrate ever offered by MGX. Our Green Bags contain a unique chemical catalyst that speeds up the degradation of the polyethylene to a few years instead of the 600 years of a typical polyethylene bag. The optical and physical properties of MGX Green Bags are virtually identical to typical polyethylene films, so they can be heat-sealed and printed on the same as any other polyethylene substrate.
Adding biodegradable polyethylene to your Indigo materials line-up is a financially-savvy choice as well as an eco-friendly one. Your customers are increasingly becoming more environmentally conscious—and their purchase decisions reflect this new trend. Offering a greener product than the competition is a strong selling point to the consumer. The applications for MGX Green Bags are wide-ranging—for example, you can offer custom grocery bags, welcome bags for conferences, newspaper bags, direct mail pouches, small merchandise bags, and store packaging to your press product offerings. You may also find other creative and innovative ways to utilize Green Bags in your business. And as with any MGX material, Green Bag polyethylene is guaranteed to print on any Indigo.
Are you interested in trialing this innovative substrate? MGX has sample rolls available. Contact us for more information on this groundbreaking product. We also have the capacity to coat regular polyethylene if your business requires it. And if you are interested in more polyethylene bag manufacturing information, check out www.baggingguys.com for a range of new and used equipment for bag making.
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