Packaging Backgrounds

Packaging with a future - How young talent is enriching the industry

26 September 2025

They are motivated, curious - and well networked: On Students Day at FACHPACK 2025, students meet companies from the world of packaging. We accompany Dr Natalie Brandenburg from the German Packaging Institute and talk to the young talents about their choice of course, motivation and career goals.

Plastic packaging under pressure - but with a future? Dr Isabell Schmidt (IK) talks about regulation, recycling and realistic

26 September 2025

What is the real state of plastic packaging in Germany and Europe? In our talk with Dr Isabell Schmidt, Managing Director of the IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen, we clarify where the industry stands today, what hurdles need to be overcome - and what urgently needs to change so that plastic can find its place in the circular economy.

How digitalisation can revolutionise the recycling cycle - Eleonore Eisath (MILK)

26 September 2025

How can we rethink the circular economy - with data instead of just tonnes? Eleonore Eisath from the Innovation Lab at design agency MILK not only has radical ideas, but also concrete visions of how digital tools can make the packaging world more sustainable.

Packaging Backgrounds

Packaging with a future - How young talent is enriching the industry

Plastic packaging under pressure - but with a future? Dr Isabell Schmidt (IK) talks about regulation, recycling and realistic

How digitalisation can revolutionise the recycling cycle - Eleonore Eisath (MILK)

Plastics in the circular economy - Dr Christine Bunte, PlasticsEurope Germany

PPWR: Test of recyclability - Maresa Zimmermann, Henkel

Wood packaging and the EU deforestation regulation

How Rossmann is making packaging more sustainable - Helena Bomholt, Dirk Rossmann GmbH

Why you should study packaging - Talk with students

Fibre-based composite packaging and the holistic closed-loop system

Women4Packaging - Women's power in the packaging industry!