Ten Inno-Talks also in 2022
Together with the European flexible packaging industry association Flexible Packaging Europe, Innoform Coaching GbR will organise four English-language Inno-Talks in 2022. The Inno-Talk Europe will be held in English at www.Inno-Talk.eu. Free participant tickets can also be booked there. This innovative online event format, which was developed together with eveema GmbH & Co KG and brought to series maturity, is...
Circular economy becomes normality
Guido Aufdemkamp, Managing Director of Flexible Packaging Europe, the European association of the flexpack industry, speaks plainly with Karsten Schröder in an interview. In a few years, it will be normal to think and produce in cycles. But before that, brands, retailers, flexpackers and politicians will have to work hard. Guido Aufdemkamp emphasises that only a European approach can lead...
European Users of Stand-Up Pouches 2021
Total consumption of stand-up pouches in Europe with and without spout Source: SCHÖNWALD CONSULTING Consumption of stand-up pouches with spout will grow faster than the overall stand-up pouch market in Europe in the coming years. This is also a result of the new market study by SCHÖNWALD CONSULTING, which examines the consumption of stand-up pouches in Europe in 9 market...
Video courses with Jan Switten
The first four video courses, initially in English, are now available. We have developed this course to give a first, quick and compact insight into the complex world of packaging. We offer four courses in which the various elements of the packaging chain are explained step by step. In course four, we also focus on the world of biopolymers for...
Thesis of the week 4: Packagings emit microplastics
Microplastics is not only on everyone's lips, but also in every plastic packaging. This or similar is what many current headlines are about the littering of seas, forests and even food. In addition, various NGOs, environmental organisations, the media and politicians are making efforts to instrumentalise the topic of microplastics for the displacement of plastic from our lives as a...
Speaker’s interview with Julian Thielen about stand-up pouches as raw material
Julian Thielen, born in Düren, lives and works in Cologne. After his studies of Process Engineering Paper and Packaging (B Eng) in Munich and Packaging Engineering (M. Eng) at the Beuth University in Berlin, he has been working in the USA as Business Development Engineer and afterwards as Application Engineer at Bischof + Klein in Lengerich. At the beginning of 2018...
Speaker’s interview with Torsten Erwied: The advantages of ultrasonic top seams in stand-up pouches
Torsten Erwied studied dual Business Economics at BASF SE and at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen. After his studies he gained more than 20 years of experience in the packaging industry in different positions as Sales and Key Account Manager. He has been managing the Sales Department of the packaging division at Herrmann Ultraschall in Karlsbad since 2017. You...
Speaker’s interview with Marco Izzi about new PP materials for sterilisable stand-up pouches for food
Marco Izzi works as "Application Development and Technical Service Engineer” at LyondellBasell in Germany. His field of activities includes the development and market launch of new and improved polyolyfine types, in cooperation with R & D, marketing, sales and Asset Management. Furthermore, he is responsible for the support of polypropylene film manufacturers. In his professional career he worked as Quality...
Stand-up pouches as a new trend
Ecology and economy are the focus of the 6th European Stand-up Pouch Conference organised by Innoform Coaching GbR on 11/12 September, 2018 in Berlin at the Steigenberger Hotel am Kanzleramt in Berlin. More and more new markets and products open up to the stand-up pouches, and more and more brands decide upon them. Since its invention in the 1950s, it...
Interview with Jörg Schönwald – Figures, data, facts about the stand-up pouch in Europe
Jörg Schoenwald has studied law, economics, history and politics at the Erlangen-Nuremberg University. After his studies, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry and joined SCHÖNWALD CONSULTING in 1995. In 2006 he took over the manangement. As international business consultancy the firm’s European and worldwide fields of activity are packaging, plastics and environment. Foci of business are industrial market research, business...