Category: barrier films

  • Safe Packaging: The Interplay of Film, Machinery and Product

    Safe Packaging: The Interplay of Film, Machinery and Product

    When packing in flexible packaging, it is not the packaging machine alone that determines a stable process. At least as important are the film construction, its friction, surface, and sealing properties, as well as the respective product being filled. Karsten Schröder demonstrated how closely these factors are linked in the Innoform web seminar “Packaging in…

  • Mono-PP Retort Pouches: What Modern Recyclable Sterilisation Packaging Can Deliver

    Mono-PP Retort Pouches: What Modern Recyclable Sterilisation Packaging Can Deliver

    INNO-Talk ‘Retortable mono-material laminates – Barrier is key’ with KIN GmbH and Toppan Packaging Czech: How SiOx-coated BOPP replaces aluminium in retort pouches, which values matter after sterilisation, and what flexible packaging converters, fillers, and brand owners should do now.

  • PET Bottles vs. Stand-Up Pouches

    PET Bottles vs. Stand-Up Pouches

    The Duel of High-Performance Architectures Rigid bottle or flexible functional membrane? Based on the successful article series by Dr. Bernd Knierbein and our current, experimental podcast episode, we highlight a key dilemma in packaging technology: How do the two dominant concepts compare directly in terms of manufacturing, sterilization, logistics, and circular economy? In Europe alone,…

  • Paper-Based Flexible Barrier Packaging: Opportunities and Latest Developments

    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…

  • Individual training in the flexpack industry – from web seminar to modular in-house training

    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.

  • Extrusion, orientation and recycled materials

    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,…

  • POUCH vs. PET Bottle Part 5

    POUCH vs. PET Bottle Part 5

    PP stand-up pouches vs. PET bottles for high-quality and sensitive fillings – a report by Dr. Bernd Knierbein As by January 2026, part 5 from 5, part 4 here: 5. Applications, recycling aspects and conclusion 5.1. Use and application 5.1.1. Pouches As a form of flexible packaging, pouches offer further application options compared to semi-rigid…

  • The World of Polyethylenes: Which PE for Which Purpose?

    The World of Polyethylenes: Which PE for Which Purpose?

    Key insights from our expert web seminar with Dr. Heiko Schenck Polyethylene (PE) remains one of the most important materials in the packaging industry—yet its diversity has increased significantly over the past decades. In the web seminar “The World of Polyethylenes – Which PE for Which Purpose?”, participants gained a comprehensive and practice-oriented overview of…

  • POUCH vs PET BOTTLE Part 4

    POUCH vs PET BOTTLE Part 4

    PP stand-up pouches vs. PET bottles for high-quality and sensitive fillings – a report by Dr. Bernd Knierbein As by January 2026, part 4 from 5, part 3 here: 4. Processes after filling 4.1. Preservation 4.1.1. Sterilisation of the pouches The filled bags must be prepared as follows for sterilisation in a standard bench-top autoclave:…

  • Flexible packaging between PPWR and practice

    Flexible packaging between PPWR and practice

    How the flexpack industry meets regulatory requirements  Under the main theme “Flexpack 2030,” the 23rd Inno-Meeting on February 24 and 25, 2026 in Osnabrück provided strong impetus for the future of flexible packaging. In the midst of a profound transformation process in the industry, the industry meeting presented solutions and trendsetting innovations that will shape…