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 Dominik Haug
Dominik Haug studied business administration with focus on marketing, logistics and controlling. In addition, he completed an Executive Master of Business Administration at the Business School of RWTH Aachen. He worked in the retail trade at Lidl, in the food industry at Lactalis and Hochland as well as in the packaging industry at SIG Combibloc. As Product, Project und Brand...
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...
11th amendment of Regulation (EU) no. 10/2011 has been published
With the 11th amendment of Regulation (EU) no. 10/2011 two new substances have been added to the list of substances in annex I, and the specific migration limit for two listed substances (perchloric acid, salts (perchlorate) (FCM No 822) and phosphorous acid, mixed 2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylpropyl)phenyl and 4-(1,1-dimethylpropyl)phenyl triesters (FCM substance No 974 and CAS No 939402-02-5) have been amended. Plastic materials...