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DSM Animal Nutrition & Health offers packaging premix in LDPE bags

DSM Animal Nutrition & Health now offers the option of packaging premix in low-density linear polyethylene (LDPE) bags. The white-tinted bags are 100 percent recyclable and provide protection from air and sunlight that can be detrimental to vitamin potency in animal feed.

DSM Animal Nutrition & Health now offers the option of packaging premix in low-density linear polyethylene (LDPE) bags. The white-tinted bags are 100 percent recyclable and provide protection from air and sunlight that can be detrimental to vitamin potency in animal feed.   

The thickness of the polyethylene helps reduce bag damage during transport to and within customers’ warehouses and feed mills. Bag exteriors are textured to improve handling and ensure that bags on pallets hold together. Heat sealing is used to eliminate the risk of thread or tape contaminating micro-bins or finished feed. The bags also clean out easily for reduced product shrink. New bags meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for food packaging and comply with international shipping standards.

The effort to provide environmentally friendly packaging was a response to a customer’s request for premix packaging that could become part of their internal recycling initiative. Traditional multi-walled paper bags with a polyethylene liner require separation of the paper before either component can be recycled; however, these new bags don’t require this additional step.  

New, state-of-the-art packaging equipment in both the Pendergrass, Ga., and Ames, Iowa, premix plants allows DSM to offer the LDPE bag option to customers. Customers can choose the bag type they prefer when developing their premix specifications.  Similar upgrades to packaging equipment at DSM premix plants in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ayr, Ontario, are planned for the future. 

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