Sustainability in the packaging world: "double circularity" adhesives based on bio-polymers

Ante litteram sustainability principles distinguish the activity of Menichetti, which has been producing organic glues for box making, paper converting and bookbinding since 1950: faithful to a tradition that comes from the past, it puts its experience at the service of today’s packaging industry.
It was the 1950s when Vincenzo Menichetti, founder of the family business now at its fourth generation, founded a small company in Fucecchio, in the province of Florence, that produced glues using tannery by-products. And thus, he gave birth, in a completely unconscious way, to what is today defined as a circular economy, characterized by the Anglo-Saxon “3 R’s”: reduce, reuse, recycle.
The example of circular bioeconomy is in the use of collagen extracted from skin, bones and connective tissues from tannery waste as a basic bio-polymer to produce glues. Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and, after appropriate processing, can be used as a “bio” adhesive.