Karsten Schröder talks in Berlin to Dr. Daniele Borin, Product Manager for Flexibles at Taghleef, about PP-based film packaging solutions. Daniele unveiled how BOPP films can be used both as printing and barrier web. In fact EXTENDO® portfolio can meet the most demanding requirements in terms of water vapour, aroma, oxygen and mineral oil barrier. Discover why this approach with...
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...
Two new pages in two languages for more flexpack knowledge for decision-makers. The website www.Inno-Talk.eu has been online since the beginning of 2021. It is mainly used for the Inno-Talk events and is constantly being optimised. So far there have been over 7000 registrations for the Inno-Talk. German- and English-language talks alternate. Now there is also the website www.Inno-Meeting.eu available....
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...
Poorly made mono-material packaging does more harm than good. Plastic packaging is on its way to a circular economy - that is what you read and hear everywhere. But is that really the case? Documentaries like "The Recycling Lie" make you sit up and take notice, even if the comments from experts may sound scathing. Feel free to form your...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...