Mars and Sabic introduce wet pet food packaging featuring chemically recycled plastic

SABIC, Mars Petcare and Huhtamaki have announced that their collaboration in pet food packaging using certified circular polypropylene (PP) from SABIC’s Trucircle portfolio has been expanded to the Sheba brand. Mars Petcare, part of Mars Inc., McClean, Virginia, has adopted a flexible film structure with SABIC PP BCT18F impact copolymer for retort pouches that are used to package Sheba wet food. The multilayer film is manufactured by Finnish company Huhtamaki,

“We are very pleased about the ongoing strategic efforts with Mars and Huhtamaki,” says Lada Kurelec, of SABIC. “The transformation of the industry towards a circular economy requires unprecedented innovation and intensive collaboration across the value chain. Together, we have set another milestone on this exciting journey.”