Five million bales wrapped with Trioworld’s bale wrap with post-consumer recycled content

Trioworld launched the first ever Post-Consumer Recyclates (PCR) based bale wrap in Agritechnica 2019, the world’s largest agricultural exhibition. With more than five million bales successfully wrapped in high-performance bale wrap made of recycled content since then, Trioworld now displays a full assortment of premium products for baled silage with recycled content at Agritechnica 2023.

Bale wrap of the future
“We believe that this is the bale wrap of the future”, says Anders Larsson, Product manager Agricultural stretch films at Trioworld. “The performance is just as we want it. Silage quality and wrapping performance have proven to be on equal level as with our premium products without PCR. The fact that five million bales have been successfully wrapped with our bale wrap containing recycled material is just additional proof that it really does work”, he continues.

What started with the 25 µm bale wrap film has in the last years grown to a full assortment of PCR based products. The Trioworld PCR bale wrap assortment is based on post-consumer recycled material and certified by RecyClass** and has been used and evaluated by farmers and contractors all around the world. Many years of research and development together with field tests have made it possible for Trioworld to be the first producer to offer options with recycled content for all their premium products for baled silage. What makes this so unique is, that this also includes the more efficient high-tech products with reduced thicknesses of 21 or 19 µm as well as net replacement films.

Closing the loop in bale wrap
What makes Trioworld’s recycled bale wrap extra exceptional is that it is produced from used bale wrap that is collected and recycled into new high-performance PCR film.

Trioworld operates three recycling plants in Europe and produces high-performance regranulates from the collected, used bale wrap in their own process, which ensures stable quality and performance. It is a rare and high-tech process to recycle used products into the same level of performance in new products.

This solution to recycle used bale wrap into new bale wrap does not only encourage the collection after use but also enables a true circularity which decreases the climate impact significantly. Depending on the product it is now possible to reduce the carbon footprint by up to 43%*** when switching to an alternative with less material usage and post-consumer recycled content.

“We are very happy that customers have understood the value of this new way of making silage more sustainable and are looking forward to achieving the goal of having 30% PCR in all our products by 2025”, states Anders Larsson.

For more information, please contact:
Anders Larsson, Product manager Agricultural Stretch films at Trioworld, +46-703 994650

*Post-Consumer Recyclates, i.e., plastic that has been used for its intended purpose
**RecyClass - Recycled plastics traceability certification (www.recyclass.eu)
***LCA modeled 2023 in SimaPro, using data from the ecoinvent inventory database. Reduction in climate impact when comparing 19μm Loop bale wrap to 25μm virgin bale wrap