Engineering Eco-friendly Solutions

Through our engineering leadership, FP was the first company to phase out use of CFC’s in its polystyrene loosefill and polyethylene foam manufacturing processes. With dedicated research and development we decreased the amount of plastic resin used to make our loosefill by 57%, thereby reducing the use of resources and energy to manufacture our products. In addition, our engineering group, by working with new resin blends, has been able to down-gauge our film thickness resulting in stronger, thinner air cushions that provide a 40% increase in cubic feet yield per roll of film.

With the introduction of the CELL-O^® system, the first PMOS “packaging manufactured on site” product line, customers have the ability to make air cushions on site instead of shipping and storing bulky bundles of bubble wrapping material. This helped the environment by significantly reducing the number of road trips necessary to transport large bundles of bubble. One pallet of film is equivalent to a truckload of ½ inch bubble. The primary environmental benefit of air cushions is the ability to reduce the size of the used inflated packaging to a small fraction.  Each cushion is less than one percent plastic and the other 99% is air. If not reused, the cushion can be deflated and there is over 99% less volume for disposal, making air cushion packaging the ultimate low-waste/source-reduced product.