UNIQ, AFCO Agricultural Quality Seal (Spanish Association of Packaging and Packaging Manufacturers of Corrugated cardboard), is born with the aim of ensuring that the packaging offers all guarantees to contain and transport fresh fruit and vegetable products.
The seal UNIQ brings together the best know-how in the corrugated cardboard industry and meets the latest requirements of the market: innovation, quality, resilience and protection. All products packaged in a box with the UNIQ seal offer differentiation and confidence.
Regulations and quality standards
https://issuu.com/grupouniq/docs/uniq_v3_publico_baja
The UNIQ Quality Manual: These are technical recommendations for the cardboard box manufacturer can design the packaging compliance with the performance required by the UNIQ Quality Regulation.
What is the best UNIQ quality seal?
We'll choose the UNIQ quality seal depending on the number of days in which our products will be packed between packaging and arrival at destination, we will choose:
- CLASS E
“Export”, for approximate times of up to 4 days from packaging until arrival at destination, excluding any shipping. - CLASS L
“Long distance”, for approximate times longer than 4 days and up to 8 days, from packaging to arrival at destination. - CLASS U
“Ultramar”, for approximate times longer than 8 days from packaging until arrival at destination.
Why the UNIQ quality seal?
HYGIENIC AND SAFE
Cardboard boxes are single-use and suitable for food contact. They protect products from damage, contact with waste and cross-contamination. They pose no risk to human health or to the organoleptic properties of products.
INFORMATION
It describes all the nutritional data and information set out in food safety and traceability regulations.
SUSTAINABLE
Ensures sustainable forest management. In Spain, the cultivation of wood for paper production has increased the forest area by 430,000 hectares. These growing trees absorb and store 7.5 million tons of CO2 per year.
STRONG, RESISTANT AND FUNCTIONAL
All cardboard boxes with UNIQ seal ensure flexibility, lightness, strength and versatility. Thermal and humidity insulation. Modularity and standardization.
ELECTOLOGICAL AND RESPONSIBLE
Made of natural, renewable and 100% recyclable and biodegradable products. The corrugated cardboard industry is a leader in recovery and recycling and waste reduction at source. The raw material comes from cultivated forests with sustainable forest management and forest certification.
ATTRACTIVE
Being printable, cardboard boxes become the best display of fresh productsand in magnificent communication and promotion tools, both brand and product.
What are the dimensions of boxes with the UNIQ seal?
How to obtain the UNIQ agricultural quality seal?
Through a UNIQ Group Technical Committee which monitors and keeps up to date the definition of tests and technical parameters required for UNIQ packaging.
AFCO, through external laboratories approved, carries out quality controls at all plants where UNIQ containers are manufactured It also has a procedure for the approval of laboratories interested in carrying out audits.
