Gurugram, India, July 27, 2020 - PackagingConnections has started with a series of webinars during July’2020. After successfully completing the first one on “Introduction to PackagingConnections”, the company is coming up with a new paid webinar on an important topic SUSTAINABILITY. The company has completed the initial research on Sustainability in Packaging and is ready to present its findings to the packaging community. The webinar will cover the current practices, challenges, and ways forward. This webinar would also take its audience through many examples that are already implemented.

CTI has invented a new suite of colour-change technologies using solvent inks, including thermochromic (temperature-activated), photochromic (sunlight-activated), glow-in-the-dark and reveal technology (which reveals a message after product consumption). Previously, solvent-ink printers were forced to use water-based inks that slowed down manufacturing operations. The new solvent-specialty inks eliminate the operational hurdles of water-based inks. The company’s consumer research has found that the colour-change technology is an effective tool for brands to drive content on their social media platforms. When brands do a great job of creating ‘wow’ experiences on their packaging, consumers turn and share that story with their friends on social media, it discovered, resulting in increased sales as friends try the new technology and share their own experiences. “Consumers have their phone in their right hand and a Starbucks, Coke or Coors Light in their left hand,” explained Patrick Edson, former vice-president of consumer insights for Coors Brewing Company and, since 2012, the chief marketing officer for CTI. “In brand mapping exercises, we call this challenge ‘getting the right hand to talk to the left hand.’ If you can create an experience or start a story with your product in the consumer’s left hand they, in turn, will share that experience on their phone in the right hand. “Brands realize that the colour-change technology is more than just creating an experience on a cup, it’s a new form of content for digital marketing,” Edson added. Lyle Small, founder of CTI, continued, “Colour-change technology is now affordable for cup printers and they offer a tremendous innovation tool for them to help drive new margins for their customers in quick-serve restaurants and convenience stores.” For over a decade, brands such as Coors Light have used thermochromic inks to turn their mountains blue to deliver on the promise of Rocky Mountain Cold Refreshment. Coca-Cola ensured a cold promise for 7-Eleven consumers with its “Ice Cube” 16-oz. can. Cheetos used photochromic technology in Mexico for their “Where’s Chester?” promotion on chip bags. Oreo supported the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with Glow-in-the-Dark packaging. CTI can now offer in-house design services to help cup printers and brand owners develop concepts that can be quickly tested with consumers.

As members of the packaging industry, the largest contributor of both plastic generation and plastic waste globally, we must constantly engage ourselves to find alternatives to this very gradual yet potent destruction of the environment.

With the growing demand for more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives to plastic in the packaging industry, many developments have been made in the field of bio-based materials in the recent past.

Following are a few innovations that demonstrate potential.

Sustainability In Packaging Asia is Going Virtual in 2020!

Since its launch in US in 2006, our sustainability in packaging conference has gone from strength to strength and has been successfully launched in Europe.

* As the packaging industry faces growing consumer and regulatory pressure to find sustainable packaging
options that ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’, companies across the value chain are looking to sustainability to differentiate from their competitors and win new business. Brands have ambitious sustainability goals to hit, converters want to champion the sustainable credentials for their materials and raw materials companies are innovating to solve performance and end of life issues.

* The challenge is that the things that make packaging (especially plastics packaging) effective at its job (its cheap and durable) also hinder its sustainability – it lasts a long time and is uneconomical to recycle

* Asia is becoming a key arena for sustainability discussions because the consumer base is growing quickly and with it demand for packaging but the recycling infrastructure and waste management is less developed. China’s recent‘National Sword’policy has curtailed European and US plastic waste going to China to be recycled and created heightened awareness of sustainability in both China and surrounding countries.

As global brands look to Asia to drive their growth, Asia provides many opportunities and challenges for creating a growing need for sustainable packaging solutions in the region and these will create the key themes for this new event.

According to Cure, its partial depolymerisation process allows the removal of many impurities and the conversion of food grade PET to high-quality rPET, that can be used again for food and drink packaging. Following its commercialisation, CCEP will receive the majority of the output from a Cure -licensed, new-build plant. It will reportedly enable one continuous process on the same site, which can be less energy intensive than full depolymerisation and offers lower associated C02 emissions. CCEP, in partnership with Coca Cola Western Europe, intends to eliminate virgin oil-based PET from its PET bottles, which will see the removal of over 200,000 tonnes of virgin oil-based PET from its packaging portfolio a year. Josse Kunst, chief commercial officer at Cure Technology, said: “Polyester is one of the world’s most reversible plastics and should not go to waste. In the pilot plant phase of the Cure process, we were supported with a subsidy from the European Union and the three northern provinces of the Netherlands. “Now our ambition to create an energy-efficient solution for product to product polyester transformation will be accelerated because of this funding. The support of CCEP Ventures will enable us to start with opaque and difficult to recycle food grade PET and take the first step towards our ultimate vision of recycling all polyester, again and again.” The investment marks a step by CCEP towards 100% recycled PET for its plastic bottles and supports the transition to a circular economy for PET packaging. Nick Brown, head of sustainability at CCEP Great Britain, said: “We know that we have a key role to play in supporting the on-going development of a successful and effective recycling industry. “That’s why we’ve invested in numerous recycling technologies and partnerships over the years, from when we first began using recycled PET in our bottles in the 1990’s, to our joint venture with Clean Tech UK in 2012, to more recently partnering with Loop Industries and Ioniqa to turn post-consumer PET into food-grade recycled PET. “From later this year all of our bottles will contain 50% rPET, and this partnership with Cure marks another significant milestone in our ambition to achieve a world without waste.”

While repair work in inaccessible sewers is carried out by remote-controlled robot systems, the repairs in accessible sewers are usually carried out manually inside the sewer. Workers have to painstakingly coat fibreglass mats with reaction resin inside the sewer and to manually build it up layer by layer in the inlet of the pipes that need to be repaired – not really the nicest workplace as the odour of the sewer and the reaction resin make it a difficult task. In order to shorten the time spent in the sewer, an engineering firm has developed a new type of pressing device using Trovidur®. It makes it possible to have much of the work take place outside the sewer system. Trovidur® supports the pressing device The workers fit the pressing device with the fibreglass mats and the reaction resin already inside the service vehicle. Inside the sewer, they simply place the device at the respective inlet and, by applying pressure, press the fibreglass mat to the area that needs to be repaired. Trovidur® facilitates this pressing process at several points. A base ring with a thickness of 8 mm distributes the contact pressure very effectively during the pressing. Another 3 mm thick ring on the fitting adapts perfectly to the shape of the inlet, compensates for any unevenness and at the same time is stiff enough to hold the fibreglass mats impregnated with the reaction resin in position until they harden.

Table of Contents Series Page Preface Part I. Why Multilayer Films? 1. Introduction 1.1. History of Packaging 1.2. Benefits of Packaging 1.3. Consumption Patterns 1.4. Packaging Value Chain 1.5. Needs Along the Value Chain 1.6. Assembling a Package: Benefits of Multiple Layers 1.7. Packaging Trends in the Context of the Value Chain Part II. Basic Processes 2. Converting Processes 2.1. Extrusion 2.2. Film Converting 2.3. Coating and Lamination 2.4. Orientation 2.5. Printing 3. Packaging Equipment 3.1. Brief Description of Packaging Equipment 3.2. Unit Operations Part III. Material Basics 4. Commonly Used Resins and Substrates in Flexible Packaging 4.1. Resin and Substrate Function 4.2. Commonly Used Resins in Flexible Packaging 4.3. Commonly Used Substrates in Flexible Packaging 4.4. Material Specifications 4.5. Regulatory Considerations 5. Rheology of Polymer Melts 5.1. Basic Terms 5.2. Importance of Rheology in Flexible Packaging 5.3. Rheological Measurements 5.4. Factors Influencing Polymer Rheology 5.5. Relaxation, Creep, and Constitutive Equations 6. Polymer Blending for Packaging Applications 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Why Blend? 6.3. Blending Processes 6.4. Physics of Blending 6.5. Morphology Development in Blown Film 6.6. Dispersion of Rigid Particles and Nanocomposites 6.7. Rheology of Polymer Blends 6.8. Conclusion Part IV. Film Properties Introduction 7. Heat Seal 7.1. Why It Is Important 7.2. How to Measure 7.3. Typical Values 7.4. Factors That Influence Heat Seal Performance 7.5. Science of Heat Sealing 7.6. Modeling Heat Seal and Hot Tack 7.7. Easy-Open Seal Technology 7.8. Reclosable Seal Technologies 7.9. Ultrasonic Sealing 7.10. Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting 7.11. Selecting Sealant Resins 8. Barrier 8.1. Why It Is Important 8.2. How to Measure 8.3. Typical Permeation Values 8.4. Science of Permeation 8.5. Emerging Technologies 9. Strength, Stiffness, and Abuse Resistance 9.1. Why It is Important 9.2. How to Measure 9.3. Typical Values 9.4. Engineering Principles for Multilayer Films 10. Adhesion 10.1. Why Adhesion is Important 10.2. How to Measure Adhesion 10.3. Fundamentals 10.4. Tie Resin Technology 11. Thermoforming, Orientation, and Shrink 11.1. Thermoforming 11.2. Orientation and Shrink 12. Frictional and Optical Properties 12.1. Frictional Properties 12.2. Optical Properties Part V. Effect of the Converting Process on Properties Introduction 13. Effect of Processing on Quality 13.1. Thermal Stability 13.2. Die Drool 13.3. Moisture-Related Issues 13.4. Flow Maldistribution and Instability Issues 13.5. Curl 14. Effect of Process on Properties 14.1. Stress–Strain History in Blown Film 14.2. Air- Versus Water-Quench Blown Film 14.3. Development of Blend Morphology in Blown Film 15. Effect of Processing on Interlayer Adhesion 15.1. Adhesion to Substrates in Extrusion Coating 15.2. Interlayer Adhesion in Coextrusion Part VI. End Use Considerations 16. End-Use Factors Influencing the Design of Flexible Packaging 16.1. Environmental Effects on Package Performance 16.2. Packaging–Product Interactions 16.3. Aging 16.4. General Considerations 16.5. Cost Part VII. Structure Design and Modeling 17. Analytical and Modeling Tools for Structure Design and Process Optimization 17.1. Identification of Packaging Structures 17.2. Modeling Appendix A. Writing Guide for Packaging Films and Other Multilayer Structures Appendix B. Examples of Flexible Packaging Film Structures Index Description The Science and Technology of Flexible Packaging: Multilayer Films from Resin and Process to End Use provides a comprehensive guide to the use of plastic films in flexible packaging, covering scientific principles, properties, processes, and end use considerations. The book brings the science of multilayer films to the practitioner in a concise and impactful way, presenting the fundamental understanding required to improve product design, material selection, and processes, and includes information on why one material is favored over another for a particular application, or how the film or coating affects material properties. Detailed descriptions and analysis of the key properties of packaging films are provided from both an engineering and scientific perspective. End-use effects are also covered in detail, providing key insights into the way the products being packaged influence film properties and design. View more > Key Features Provides essential information on all aspects of multilayer films in flexible packaging Aids in material selection and processing, shortening development times and delivering stronger products Bridges the gap between scientific principles and key challenges in the packaging industry, with practical explanations to assist practitioners in overcoming those challenges Readership Engineers and Scientists responsible for designing polymers, making film, specifying packaging, running or operating film lines and packing lines, industrial designers, and consultants. Industry Sector – Packaging, especially flexible packaging, including food and non-food packaging (e.g., medical) Details No. of pages: 744 Language: English Copyright: © William Andrew 2017 Published: 15th September 2016 Imprint: William Andrew Hardcover ISBN: 9780323242738 eBook ISBN: 9780323243254 About the Author Barry Morris Barry A. Morris is a technical fellow at DuPont with over 30 years of experience in packaging innovation and technology. He has had a variety of roles supporting DuPont’s ethylene copolymer business, including technical service, application development and R&D. He holds ten U.S. patents and has written for over 100 publications. He is a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, a long time board member and past chair of the SPE Extrusion Division, and a founding member and current chair of the SPE Flexible Packaging Division. A longtime member of TAPPI, he won the PLACE Division’s technology award in 2005 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of flexible packaging technology. Affiliations and Expertise Technical fellow, DuPont

Developed through work which has combined various Novamont production technologies, in comparison with previous versions, the new grade offers an appreciable improvement in process stability, coating thicknesses and processing speed comparable with LDPE, and excellent adhesion to different substrates (paper, board, plastic films). From the point of view of environmental performance, objects manufactured using the new grade – cups, dishes for catering, thin board for food use – are GMO-free, biodegradable, can be composted in accordance with standard UNI EN 13432 and can be recycled along with waste paper. With excellent toughness and resistance to perforation, such objects are also suitable for contact with food and microwave use and offer excellent resistance to oils and fats. With this new grade MATER-BI for extrusion coating, Novamont is in a position to satisfy the rise in demand for disposable products that can be composted together with paper and board, thus solving the problems associated with the limited availability of some raw materials.

MULTIVAC is a winner of the Axia Best Managed Companies Award 2020, a seal of approval that is awarded by Deloitte, WirtschaftsWoche, Credit Suisse and BDI to companies, which are judged to be outstandingly well managed. Christian Traumann, Group President of MULTIVAC, accepted the award yesterday in Munich.