The BEUMER stretch hood from the BEUMER Group, with headquarters in Beckum, Germany, provides a solution to this problem. This high-performance packaging machine does not use separate plastic bags to produce inliners. The plastic film for the inliners comes from a roll instead. The BEUMER stretch hood cuts and seals the film. This allows the length to be adjusted freely, depending on the setting of the machine. The packaging machine then crumples up the inliner slightly in order to guide it over the edge of the octatainer. The inliner falls into the center of the container by its own weight and fits perfectly against the side wall during filling. The inliner is then sealed and the lid is put on the container. After this, the octatainer can be transported back to the BEUMER stretch hood so that the product can be secured. A film stretch hood is applied at this point. One single BEUMER stretch hood is enough for both processes – creating/inserting the inliner and securing the product. No other components are required. This system was developed at the Düsseldorf and Germersheim sites in collaboration with Smurfit Kappa.