Hueck Folien Takes Major Strides Toward Eco-Neutral Production

Austrian-based film and foil specialist Hueck Folien, a leading supplier of security threads and foils for banknotes, is taking a number of steps to put its products at the forefront of sustainability and reach its goal of ecologically-neutral production by 2035.

One such step is its high purity recycled aluminium, which is used to produce high-gloss metallised films and was first presented at Labelexpo 2023 in Brussels.

High-gloss metallisation require shigh-purity aluminium and, previously, recycled aluminium with this purity standard was not available. Hence Hueck Folien has set up a recycling circuit for industrial aluminium scrap – from collection to melting to wire drawing. It is the first company to have a supply-chain for the high quality recycled aluminium for vacuum evaporation onto films.