{"id":108750,"date":"2025-11-19T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=108750"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:34:07","slug":"women-in-packaging-marina-schedel-multivac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/women-in-packaging-marina-schedel-multivac\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Packaging: From commercial entry to packaging expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

From industrial clerk to project manager in the Innovation Centre - this path shows how diverse career opportunities are in the packaging industry. Marina Schedel started her apprenticeship at Multivac in 2009 and discovered her passion for packaging and material issues at the Innovation Centre. Today, she takes on a variety of tasks in the Innovation Centre.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the headquarters in Wolfertschwenden, Marina Schedel and a team of application engineers, food technologists and material specialists support customers in choosing the optimum packaging concept. Tailor-made solutions are created in the Innovation Centre<\/strong> - from feasibility studies and prototypes to packaging analyses and sustainability assessments.<\/p>\n

\u201eInitially, I was responsible for organisational and commercial tasks as an assistant,\u201c says Marina Schedel. \u201eBut there were always students of food and packaging technology in the company - and that fascinated me.\u201c Without further ado, she decided to do a Study programme with in-depth practical experience at Kempten University of Applied Sciences, specialising in food and packaging technology<\/strong>. Multivac supported her with a model that closely dovetailed her studies and practical work in the company. She ended up writing her bachelor's thesis in her department - with a clear focus on sustainability, a topic that still characterises her professional activities today.<\/p>

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A workplace full of ideas and experiments<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Innovation Centre in Wolfertschwenden is also a kind of future laboratory for the packaging world. Here packaging solutions are not only developed, but also tested, analysed and put to the test.<\/strong> All kinds of machines are available for sampling, mainly thermoforming machines, but also traysealers and flow-wrapping machines, combined with a large stock of films, papers and new materials.<\/p>\n

\u201eThe interaction between machine and material is crucial. Many customers think that if something doesn't work, it's down to the machine. But it's often the material. If the two don't harmonise, problems arise - and that's exactly what we want to avoid.\u201c<\/p>\n

Marina Schedel<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The team carries out around 300 tests a year at the Wolfertschwenden site alone, A new test runs almost every day<\/strong>. Customers are often present on site in Wolfertschwenden, sometimes virtually via cameras.<\/p>\n

The team is interdisciplinary: application engineers prepare the tests and carry them out together with the customers, food technologists assess shelf life and product safety, material specialists test plastic, paper or other materials. \u201eThis diversity is what makes the work so exciting. No two days are the same. We have Customers from all over the world<\/strong>, with different markets, trends and requirements.\u201c<\/p>\n

Sustainability as a compass<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One topic has been on Marina Schedel's mind since her studies: sustainability. \u201eThe hot topic is, of course, recyclable materials. But it's also about reducing materials, because the cost pressure in the industry is high and less material also means lower costs,\u201c says Marina Schedel. Many customers want to switch to more sustainable materials, but expect the packaging to look exactly the same as before. \u201eHowever, a change of material almost always means changes<\/strong>different transparency, different feel, different workability.\u201c This is exactly where advice is needed.<\/p>\n

In addition to the trend towards recyclability, she and her team are also concerned with the growing regulatory requirements. At European level, for example, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). \u201eThe regulations are becoming increasingly complex. Smaller companies in particular do not have the capacity<\/strong>, to deal with it intensively. They are therefore looking for our support - and that makes our role even more important.\u201c<\/p>\n

Innovation Centre globally positioned<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Multivac has the Innovation centre concept rolled out internationally long ago<\/strong> - to Canada, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, the UK, France, Romania, Poland, India, Malaysia, Japan, Australia and, in future, Denmark. Customers are advised everywhere and can check and optimise their packaging ideas. \u201eWe want to offer the same service worldwide - whether in Europe, Asia or South America,\u201c explains Schedel. \u201eIt's not just about technology, but also about cultural proximity. Our local colleagues speak the customers\u201c language - literally and figuratively.\"<\/p>\n

A look into the future<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What does the future hold for the packaging world? For Marina Schedel, there are three main topics: Sustainability, digitalisation and artificial intelligence<\/strong>. \u201eAlthough AI is not yet a hot topic for our customers, we are already working intensively on it internally - for example in packaging design or digital features on packaging.\u201c The direction is clear: in future, packaging should not only become more sustainable, but also more intelligent.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marina Schedel began her training at Multivac in 2009 and discovered her passion for packaging and material issues at the Innovation Centre.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":108751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Marina Schedel startete 2009 ihre Ausbildung bei Multivac und entdeckte im Innovation Center ihre Leidenschaft f\u00fcr Verpackungs- und Materialfragen.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"women in packaging","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,21],"tags":[61040,58373,31,70,39,60418],"class_list":{"0":"post-108750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-dem-magazin","8":"category-verpackungstechnik","9":"tag-magazin-05-2025","10":"tag-multivac","11":"tag-nachhaltigkeit-und-green-packaging","12":"tag-verpackungsmaschinen","13":"tag-verpackungstechnik","14":"tag-women-in-packaging","15":"cs-entry","16":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}