Ton Knipscheer talked to Karsten Schröder about “Digital Heating”
A live interview recorded in Berlin in October 2022 It was a great pleasure to meet so many high-quality representatives of the international flexible packaging industry at the Inno-Meeting Europe 2022 in Berlin. Inspiring keynotes with challenging perspectives and a very nice social programme. I had the privilege to be there and to make many valuable contacts. Afterwards, I was...
The Inno-Meeting Europe – on the pulse of time
A short report by Karsten Schröder Moderated by Guido Aufdemkamp, the Inno-Meeting Europe was an entertaining, informative and collegial meeting of the on-site and livestream participants. Together with the top-class speakers, the atmosphere was extremely friendly and constructive. It started with facts, figures and data from Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE). Anja Holthoff-Schlegel, connected from quarantine, spoke about the expected growth...
Guido Aufdemkamp from Flexible Packaging Europe on the background to the Inno-Meeting Europe
An interview with Guido Aufdemkamp by Karsten Schröder … "the real goal is the fight against climate change"... Guido, we have been discussing for years why the Inno-Meeting in Osnabrück only exists in German. It has established itself in the German-speaking region as a real industry meeting. In the meantime, Innoform has even added some offshoots to the Inno-Meeting brand...
New stand-up pouch studie
From 1995 to 2021, stand-up pouch consumption in Europe increased from 2.5 billion units to nearly 55 billion. In its latest market study, SCHÖNWALD CONSULTING lists 1,373 users of stand-up pouches in Europe and North America, broken down by country, spouted and non-spouted market segments, brand owners, retailers and co-packers. European geographic regions include 11 countries/country groups; North America includes...
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...
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...