Carton production
Elopak and our Joint Ventures produces more than 14 billion beverage cartons every year. We have 10 manufacturing units across the globe. Using paper board, the manufacturing plants prints, forms and distribute beverage cartons to our customer around the world. We use different printing methods and paperboard material to produce beverage cartons.
Elopak is recognized for the quality of its printing technology and expertise. You can always rely on our pre-press and printing specialists for getting the best brand images and ensuring that your designs stand out on shelf.
Prepress to optimize the creation stage
By involving our experts at the earliest possible stage in the creative process, you are sure to achieve the best print and design results. We can work directly with your graphic design team to optimize the creative process.
Elopak’s in-house reproduction and prepress departments have skilled and customer dedicated employees using state-of-art equipments for providing reproduction solutions and digital proofs for best printing results -them
In North America, Elopak works with two printing techniques
- Standard Flexo Printing
- EloChrome Printing
Standard Flexo Printing
Standard flexography is mostly used for designs containing large solid areas of pure colors, bold and sans-serif typefaces and motives where color-to-color register accuracy is not critical.
EloChrome Printing
This offset technique is particularly adapted for high print quality demands to enhance premium brands. It is suitable for photographic motives in 4-color process printing and designs requiring reproduction of details and gradations.
EloChrome color system, combining process colors CMYK and supporting colors Green, Orange, Violet, offers theorical unlimited number of colors per design and significantly wider color gamut compared to process color printing.
Paper board technology
Our beverage cartons are made from approx. 80-90% paperboard, inside barriers and are coated with PE for maximum protection. The paper board is coated at our own facilities to guarantee optimum quality. Our different board structures are designed to ensure the integrity of the product and are also protecting the product from the external environment.
Elopak’s wide portfolio of carton materials for different liquid food offers:
- Optimized barrier properties for light and oxygen protection
- Preservation of sensitive product ingredients such as vitamins
- Maximum shelf life, longer freshness and guaranteed quality
- Best seal quality for effective distribution
- Colour and design durability on shelf
- Odour and taste free packaging