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.

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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.

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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.

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

25 September 2025

Circular economy instead of plastic bashing? On FACHPACK TV, PlasticsEurope CEO Dr Christine Bunte talks about the reputation of plastics, the reality of recycling and the future of the industry.

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PPWR: Test of recyclability - Maresa Zimmermann, Henkel

24 September 2025

Maresa Zimmermann from Henkel Adhesive Technologies talks to FACHPACK TV about the challenges of developing recyclable paper-based packaging, technical hurdles and the requirements of the EU packaging regulation PPWR.

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Wood packaging and the EU deforestation regulation

23 September 2025

t FACHPACK, HPE representative Markus Kirchner explains what new regulations such as the EUDR mean for the industry - and how the association is responding to them. A conversation about opportunities, challenges and the future of wooden packaging.

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

23 September 2025

What is Rossmann doing about packaging? Project manager Helena Bomholt explains to FACHPACK TV how the drugstore chain is making its own brands more sustainable - from recycling quotas and the use of recyclates to microplastic-free formulas.

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Why you should study packaging - Talk with students

27 September 2024

An inspiring exchange about the future of packaging and how young talents want to help shape the industry!

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

25 September 2024

At this year's FACHPACK, packaging consultant Till Isensee (TILISCO GmbH) spoke to packaging journal presenter Julia Paul about the challenges

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Women4Packaging - Women's power in the packaging industry!

24 September 2024

The Women4Packaging initiative, a strong network for women in the packaging industry, took place for the first time at FACHPACK 2024.

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