Aluminium foil in the pharmaceutical industry

Reynolds Metals popularized aluminum foil in North America in 1947, and the material replaced tin foils as a kitchen wrap, as the latter often gave stored food an off taste. Contemporary Reynolds kitchen-use aluminum foil is resistant to moisture, odor and grease. The company merged with Hefty in 2010 to form Reynolds Consumer Products, which is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, as of 2015.

According to Martelli: “All Hapa machines, when installed on a production line, provide environmental benefits. The green side effect is always there, but it’s not measured and customers are often not aware that they exist.

“It is not possible to measure the overall CO2 saving, but companies can get a reasonable overview by looking at how many deliveries they have each year. Every time you have a delivery, there is a vehicle driving a large distance to deliver the products, so you can calculate how much CO2 the truck emits per km.

“When you are reducing your 100 or so deliveries a year to around five with in-house printing, you can measure just one of the ways you are making a significant CO2 saving by switching to Hapa.”