Category: Film production / Converting
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PPWR and Flexible Packaging: Recyclability Targets by 2030
What requirements does the PPWR impose on flexible packaging? What measures do film manufacturers and converters need to initiate today in order to continue offering marketable packaging in 2030? These questions were addressed in the web seminar PPWR and Flexpack A: Recyclability by 2030 – What does this mean for film manufacturers and converters? presented…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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PPWR from August 2026: What Film Manufacturers, Paper Converters and Packaging Users Need to Know
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation will generally apply from 12 August 2026. Some of its most far-reaching requirements, including detailed recyclability criteria and minimum recycled-content targets, will only become effective at a later stage. Nevertheless, practical implementation needs to begin now. The European Commission’s updated PPWR FAQ from August 2026 addresses numerous questions concerning responsibilities…
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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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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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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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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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1st INNO-Fiber: Paper packaging: Innovation, Regulation and Competition
With “Inno-Fiber”, Innoform Coaching GmbH has launched a new event series. Under the guiding theme „Functional papers for packaging applications”, the event, held on April 15–16, 2026 in Osnabrück, showcased the opportunities and challenges of fibre-based packaging materials. The second day of the event took place in a practical setting at the Felix Schoeller paper…