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Where is the packaging industry heading?

28. Oktober 2022 Fairs and exhibitions, From the magazine

Times are anything but rosy. War in Europe, exploding energy prices, shortage of raw materials and high inflation. Against this background, the packaging industry met at Fachpack in Nuremberg – and was surprisingly optimistic. At the end, six packaging experts shared their impressions of the trade fair and their personal assessments of where the packaging industry is heading in these times in our packaging journal Live Talk.

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That was Fachpack 2022

28. Oktober 2022 Fairs and exhibitions, From the magazine

More than 1,150 exhibitors, around 32,000 visitors, three days of packaging in the spotlight - that's a brief numerical summary of this year's Fachpack. But that would hardly do justice to the full scope and significance of the packaging trade fair. After all, at the end of September in Nuremberg, not only were hands shaken, business cards exchanged and kilometres made, but ideas were compared, innovations presented and business relationships initiated. And packaging journal was right in the middle of it all.
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Siemens Healthineers packs sustainably with R.WEISS

28. Oktober 2022 From the magazine, Packaging technology

A complex product range requires a complex packaging process? You might think so. But the automation of the packaging process of Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH shows: With a competent partner like R.WEISS Packaging GmbH & Co KG, flexible solutions based on modular design can be realised. This is also the case here, for which an intelligent UNIROB turnkey system for packaging diagnostic products was developed.
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A BIOPLASTIC FOR EVERY APPLICATION

27. Oktober 2022 Packaging materials

Companies worldwide are currently in the process of reducing their CO2 emissions and making production more eco-friendly – and the packaging industry is no exception. There are various ways to achieve this, from using reusable resources to saving material to novel, more eco-friendly packaging materials. FKuR, a German company based in Willich in the Lower Rhine region, specialises in the latter field.
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A CLOSURE FIGHTING FOOD WASTE

26. Oktober 2022 Packaging technology

It is always exciting to see how far some innovations have come. A current case: the London-based start-up Mimica. Its founder, Solveiga Pakštaitė, primarily wanted to develop a bottle cap that would give people with impaired vision information about the shelf life of the product. As a rule, such info is only printed on the packaging and thus cannot be recognised by visually impaired people.
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LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENTS – A USEFUL TOOL OR GREENWASHING?

10. Oktober 2022 Green Packaging (int)

Plastic or paper – which packaging performs better in a life cycle assessment? The answer appears to be simple. Plastic packaging produces mountains of rubbish and has fallen out of favour with consumers, whereas paper is perceived as very environmentally friendly. If you ask the life cycle auditors, there is no blanket answer, because to them both materials have benefits and drawbacks that need to be weighed up in each individual case. However, in the experience of environmental research and consulting company bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH, the results of life cycle assessments constantly lead to misconceptions. bifa has been working on this method for 25 years.
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RELIABLY DETERMINING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF PACKAGING MACHINES

6. Oktober 2022 Packaging technology

Sustainability is one of the great topics that companies have to think about Goals for sustainability need to be formulated, and there need to be new ways to make products and services more sustainable. For Syntegon, this is no different. The company has set itself the goal, among others, to reduce the consumption of its most energy-intensive systems by 25 percent until 2025. One important step in this direction is the TÜV-certified calculation of the carbon footprint of Syntegon systems, which the company can now offer.
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500 KEGS PER HOUR ON ONE CONVEYOR BELT

5. Oktober 2022 Packaging technology

The keg is to the gastronomic industry what the single bottle is to the consumer. These beverage recipients hold 30 to 50 litres and cannot be used without modern pump technology these days. When liquids need to be filled into different types of packaging, retooling time is often a difficult factor. This has a negative impact on the machines’ efficiency. When changing from one-way kegs to returnable kegs, washing adds an extra step to the process. To make washing and racking kegs with beer, wine or carbonated drinks more efficient, the Dortmund-based KHS Group has developed a system with one single main conveyor belt.
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