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Flexpack News offers insights into the world of flexible packaging. Our articles cover everything from sustainable packaging solutions and innovative flexpack technologies to strategic challenges. The focus is on knowledge transfer. Expert interviews, market assessments, and news from the flexible packaging industry along the supply chain round out the offering and keep packaging professionals up to date. Discover how you can help shape the future of the packaging industry through continuous learning and exchange.And here you can go directly to our seminar offerings.
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Plastic Keeps Growing in Packaging – Which Materials Win, Which Lose?
A Surprising Finding from Brussels: Plastic Continues to Grow In July 2026, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission published a comprehensive analysis of packaging volumes across 19 EU member states. The result surprises many market observers: plastic is the only packaging material group showing a clear growth trend between 2011 and 2025.…
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Event Selection Helper: Find your training even faster and more precisely
Finding the right training can be time-consuming – especially in a dynamic and specialized industry like flexible packaging. To make finding events easier, we have integrated a new, AI-powered search tool on inno-talk.de: the Innoform Event Selection Helper. This allows you to find exactly the right training events to cover your current information needs. What…
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Paper-Based Flexible Barrier Packaging: Opportunities and Latest Developments
How can flexible packaging be designed more sustainably without sacrificing necessary barrier properties? This central question was the focus of our web seminar Flexpack made of Paper with Barrier – an Overview. Together with speaker Christian Lutze from KÄMMERER Spezialpapiere GmbH, it became clear: barrier papers are a dynamically growing field with great potential – and already today…
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Food Contact Law in Flexpack Practice Today
Food packaging today has to do more than just protect: it must be demonstrably safe, compliant and increasingly sustainable. In this Inno-Talk podcast episode, Heike Schwertke from Innoform Testservice discusses the key challenges in food contact law – from PFAS and bisphenol A to the declaration of conformity and NIAS. The article shows what companies…
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Innoform in Transition: Why Flexpack Knowledge Needs New Formats Today
Julian Thielen and Karsten Schröder in conversation: new Inno formats, digital technical communication, AI and the future of flexpack knowledge at Innoform.
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Flexible Food Packaging in Europe: Market Grows Despite Rising Demands
Flexible food packaging remains on a growth path. According to the latest study “Flexible Food Packaging in Europe” by SCHÖNWALD CONSULTING, consumption in 2025 was over 4.2 million tonnes. At the same time, the market, materials, and regulatory requirements are changing significantly. Key Takeaways Market Overview 2025: Growth and a Clear Structure Today, the market…
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Recycled content quotas are useless if the recyclers disappear – Interview with Anna Roeb, BVSE
Europe wants more recycling. The PPWR introduces mandatory recycled content quotas, Design for Recycling is becoming the standard, and hardly any sustainability strategy gets by without the circular economy anymore. So the mood in the recycling industry should actually be excellent. It is not. At the BVSE Altkunststofftag (plastics recycling congress) in Bad Neuenahr, one…
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Chemical Recycling: A Reality Check
What the 43rd Inno-Talk reveals about chemical recycling: capacities, pyrolysis, process losses, the PPWR recyclate gap and what it means for flexible packaging.
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Individual training in the flexpack industry – from web seminar to modular in-house training
How INNOin turns standardised Innoform Coaching web seminars into modular in-house training (Modules 1–5) along the flexible packaging value chain – online or on site.
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Between Trade Fair Review, Regulation and Raw Material Pressure
What Is Really Moving the Flexpack Industry Right Now For many in the packaging industry, early June is a moment to take stock: What remains of interpack 2026? Where do the PPWR and its national implementation stand? And what do examples like Calbee tell us about the vulnerability of global supply chains? In the latest…
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Webinar Recap: Safe and Compliant Use of Food Contact Adhesives
In the web seminar “Adhesives – Compliant Use in Food Packaging” with Andreas Grabitz from FCMExperts, current requirements, challenges, and practical issues surrounding the use of adhesives in food contact were discussed. Multi-faceted requirements for adhesives Adhesives are indispensable in modern food packaging – at the same time, they are among the most complex components…
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Mineral Oil in Packaging: Current Status of MOSH/MOAH – Insights from the Web Seminar
Mineral oil hydrocarbons in food remain a central topic for the packaging industry. In our web seminar Mineral Oil/MOSH/MOAH Migration – Current Status, presenter Heike Schwertke provided a comprehensive overview of sources, analytics, assessment, and current regulatory developments. This article summarizes the key insights for you in a compact form. What are MOSH, MOAH and…
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PFAS in Packaging: Regulation and Measurement Methods – What to Do Now
PFAS Regulation: Ambition Meets Reality From August 12, 2026, new limit values for PFAS in food packaging will apply: These requirements are ambitious – and pose practical challenges for many companies. Dr. Ernst Simon (Flexible Packaging Europe) assesses the situation in the InnoTalk as follows: “The PFAS regulation for food packaging in the PPWR is…
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Paper Wins – Driven by Regulation and Consumer Expectations
Matthias Giebel’s analyses show a demonstrable increase in paper packaging, with further growth potential through 2030. Alongside consumer preferences, regulatory developments, particularly the PPWR, play a central role. This creates additional incentives in favor of paper-based solutions when compared to plastics. At the same time, it became clear: paper is not a sure thing either.…
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Extrusion, orientation and recycled materials
Reinventing the flexpack industry A conversation with Heiko Schenk about technology, sustainability, and market shifts. Die flexible Verpackungsindustrie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen, volatile Rohstoffmärkte und enorme technologische Fortschritte verändern gleichermaßen Materialien, Prozesse und Machtverhältnisse entlang der Wertschöpfungskette. In a recent Innoform interview, Julian Thielen spoke with Heiko Schenk—polymer chemist, long-standing industry expert,…
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Between Consumer Expectations and Regulation: Packaging Design in a Conflict of Objectives
At INNO‑Fiber 2026 in Osnabrück, Eleonore Eisath (MILK.) spoke about a central tension in packaging development: the conflict of objectives between consumer expectations, brand logic, and regulatory-technical requirements. In her presentation, she demonstrated why supposedly simple solutions – such as a blanket switch to paper – do not do justice to the complexity of modern…
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Digital Product Passport & Compass
At the 23rd Inno-Meeting in Osnabrück, Albin Kälin presented a topic that will be of key importance to the entire industry in the coming years: the Digital Product Passport (DPP) – expanded to include a “Compass” that supports businesses and consumers in assessing sustainability, circularity and material health.In conversation with Karsten Schröder, Kälin explained why…
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EPR and recyclability assessment: Why is packaging design such an important cost factor nowadays?
A follow-up report on the webinar “EPR and recyclability assessment – proactive calculation rather than reactive testing” held on 9 April 2026 The requirements for packaging are changing rapidly. This became particularly clear in the Innoform webinar “EPR and Recyclability Assessment”, which examined in depth how recyclability and extended producer responsibility (EPR) are becoming increasingly…
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