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 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...