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Food

Sustainable packaging film for sleeving, stretching, shrinking and sealing

Plastic film is indispensable in the packaging sector. Used as sealing film, it can seal food trays, it can enclose beverage bottles in the form of sleeves and as stretch film, it lends stability to packaging during transport. Modern packaging films are sustainable, recyclable or are made from recycled materials. With a view to the European Packaging Directive, this is indeed a boon.

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Woodly – made of wood, looks like plastic

Why not make a replacement for plastic from the material you know best? In the case of Finnish start-up Woodly, that material was wood. The idea was to develop a raw material from wood cellulose that would be at least as environmentally friendly as paper while also being as transparent, flexible and efficient as conventional plastic.

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Food

AIMPLAS working to develop valuable packaging applications from fish-processing waste

Andrea Morandini in the lab for AIMPLAS’ Synthesis Group

AIMPLAS, a Valencia, Spain-based research and technology center, is participating in a European project designed to develop an eco-friendly barrier coating for food packaging from fish gelatin as well as cosmetics packaging from waste fishing nets.

From waste to product

Women in Packaging

Clarissa Odewald is leading thyssenkrupp Rasselstein through the change of brands in packaging steel

Clarissa Odewald is the Chief Sales Officer and Chairwoman of the Executive Board at thyssenkrupp Rasselstein

Tin-coated or specially chromium-plated blackplate is also known as tinplate and is used predominantly in the manufacture of packaging. In Andernach, the sole German manufacturer thyssenkrupp Rasselstein produces tinplate for approximately 400 customers in 80 countries. Clarissa Odewald has recently become the Chief Sales Officer and Chairwoman of the Executive Board.

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