Packaging

Packaging Trends Across Industry (Fall 2010) Ben Miyares, Packaging Management Institute At $4.5 trillion, packaging is the world’s largest unidentified economy. The core mission of packaging is to contain, identify, protect, dispense and market products. In carrying out its mission, packaging relies on a variety of adhesives to hold its elements together, prevent tampering and combine disparate materials as fresh challenges to be green, economical, safe and simple. This presentation will explore some of packaging’s new directions.

Coca-Cola Agenda on Environmental Sustainability (Spring 2011) Maury Zimring, Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Coca-Cola Enterprises Coca-Cola has been a leader in the environmental sustainability space, focusing on carbon reductions, water stewardship and sustainable packaging. The program reviews the environmental sustainability agenda Coca-Cola has been pursuing in North America. It highlights the work to-date, case studies of new technologies and processes and plans for the future.

Bio Based Hot Melt Adhesives (Fall 2011) Blake Lindsey, Danimer Scientific Introduction of the world’s first “bio based” renewable hot melt adhesive including an overview of DaniMer Scientific and its innovation strategy in the area of bio based materials. DaniMer describes these new materials capabilities and shares their market focus and value driven problem solving approach to product development.

Navigating Hot Melt Shortages (Fall 2011) Gary Selph, Nordson Corporation Have shortages of hot melt adhesive base materials caused you to put end users on supply allocations?

Are you concerned that they may look elsewhere to meet their current demands and future growth projections? This presentation will cover available technologies in specific market segments to help end users control their adhesive use to match allocated supply levels.

Realities of the Bioplastics Markets Food and Beverage Packaging (Fall 2011) Jeff Timm, Jeff Timm Consulting Bioplastics are an integral part of many programs that transform a product or corporate move towards a more sustainable offering. Simply meeting performance property and cost requirements during the conversion from petro-based plastics to bio-based plastics is not enough. There is much that impacts this transformation that must be taken into consideration as initiation or conversion occurs through the cradle-to-cradle analysis. The impact on recycle streams, “truth in advertising” claims, matching the application to the method of the bioplastic’s degradation process and much more are critical components to a successful market offering. This presentation will address the various bioplastic materials used in packaging applications and the impact these new offerings will have on the role of packaging adhesives.

New Polyolefin Technologies: Continued Evolution for Hygiene Adhesives (Spring 2012) Benjamin Funk, Chemist, Bostik, Inc. Christophe Morel-Fourrier, Global Technical Marketing Manager, Hygiene Adhesives, Bostik SA In the recent past, increasing use and availability of new catalyst technologies have resulted in a healthy new development pipeline and a wide variety of olefin polymer grades. Successful formulation of these newer materials allows a breadth and robustness in adhesive applications that had previously been unavailable with polyolefin technology. While representing a change in technology compared to widely used styrenic block copolymer based adhesives, converting to the new polyolefin based adhesives can be straightforward when leveraging the experience of an applications expert with a robust understanding of the unique properties of the new formulations.

Fibrous Pressure Sensitive Adhesives (Spring 2012) Dr. Eugene Joseph, Research Professor, Virginia Tech Melt blowing is a melt extrusion process that allows us to start with a material in resin form and obtain a final web product in one step. When pressure sensitive adhesives (PSA’s) are used in the melt blowing process they create PSA’s that are porous. Work has also been done on melt blowing pressure sensitive adhesives in multi-layer forms (i.e. multiple layers within each microfiber). The combination of melt blowing and pressure sensitive adhesives can to lead to novel materials and will be discussed. Recent work on electrospinning acrylic block copolymers into nanofibers and studies on the kinetics of phase separation in tackified styrene-isoprene block copolymers will also be presented.

Less is More for Nonwovens Hygiene Customers (Spring 2012) Alan Ramspeck, Global Nonwovens Marketing Manager, Nordson Corporation The trend in disposable absorbent hygiene products, such as diapers, is toward thinner, more feature rich products produced at ever increasing speeds. Identification and reduction of variation in the manufacturing process are critical to achieving a balance of managed costs required to remain competitive and profitable with the demands of consumers for high performance products. Effective management of variation in adhesive dispensing applications can deliver lower cost, lower weight, and more environmentally conscious finished disposable hygiene products while maximizing production efficiency. A methodology for identification and measurement of variation in addition to a portfolio of equipment solutions to control and minimize variation will be presented.

The Future of Global Packaging (Fall 2012) Sarah Eckersley, Global Research & Development Director, Dow Chemical Company Evolutions in technology mirror the evolution of markets. We will show how the market trends of consumerism, convenience and sustainability have evolved over time and how they are translated to the world of packaging applications. We will further relate those packaging application trends to advances in the materials used in the design and fabrication of packaging.

Optimizing Packaging Solutions for Today’s War Fighter (Spring 2013) Kevin Smith, HQMC, Installations & Logistics, (LPS) This presentation will highlight tips for improving packaging protection, reducing materials used, and optimizing packaging design to save cost throughout the logistics chain from acquisition to disposal for the war fighters’ success.

Flexible Packaging Solutions for Chemical Manufacturers (Spring 2013) Iris Thomas, Cheertainer Bag-In-Box Product Manager, CDF Corporation This presentation is an overview of flexible packaging solutions used in the chemical industry. Learn about the different types of in-process manufacturing packaging and why to choose one product over another. Preview the latest packaging innovations.

Game-changing Trends in the Packaging Market (Spring 2013) Jeffrey Timm, Managing Principal, Timm Consulting With renewed global attention of sustainability and environmental issues, the packaging market is embracing the dynamic change needed to meet these future challenges. Packaging is the connection between consumers and brands so the burden to deliver is much more than simply protecting the contents. Game-changing disruptive trends will be explored