Representatives of the packaging industry are once again meeting in Dresden's Dreikönigskirche for the traditional end-of-year event. For the 34th time, the Dresden Packaging Conference will bring together players from industry, brands, trade, science and research on 5 and 6 November. packaging journal will be there.
The programme for the two-day event once again included hot topics. Right at the beginning, everything centred on the topic of reusable packaging. Laura Griestop from WWF Germany explained the role of reusable packaging. Reusable globally, in Europe and in Germany plays. Barbara Möbius, project manager at Tchibo, reported on the reusable projects in the company's online shop, which were realised last year without deposit collection. a response rate of 80 per cent achieved. The company intends to continue pursuing this approach.
Cartonplast is also focussing on reusable packaging. The company presented its Rental system with reusable plastic layer pads and pallets for the food and beverage industry. According to the pooling service provider, it moves more than 300 million reusable packaging solutions every year. The company pledges the replacement value of its intermediate pallet layers. It was emphasised that it is only possible to operate in an environmentally relevant and sensible way with reusable solutions if there is sufficient circulation.
Sykell, deposit pool operator for returnable containers, showed how Scaling reusable solutions while glass reusable supplier Dotch explained why not only beverages, but also, for example Edible oils in returnable glass bottles are in good hands.
After the welcoming address by Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer, the programme continued with another hot topic: how Sustainable circular economy driven by artificial intelligence This is what various Fraunhofer Institutes want to demonstrate with the AI application hub for plastic packaging. A total of nine research projects are currently working on solutions for reducing mountains of waste and recycling resources through the use of artificial intelligence.
This year, the network meeting was also preceded by a In-house exhibition from Watttron in neighbouring Freital. The young company presented its Innovative digital heating technology which offers the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries the opportunity to process mono-materials for packaging, among other things. The patented Watttron technology is based on individual heating pixels that enable precise control of the heating temperature. The result for packaging manufacturers is higher energy savings - up to 50 per cent - and compensation for productivity losses of around 30 per cent, as well as amortisation of the investment in six months. In their presentation at the Packaging Conference, Dr Thomas Görner and Marcus Stein from Watttron also explained how the objectives of the PPWR in the flexible packaging sector can be achieved with „digital heating“ technology.
