Sustainability and new applied sciences headline this system for FlexPackCon 2023, a convention that investigates and addresses new developments in supplies, developments, challenges, and alternatives within the double-digit development market of versatile packaging.
Scheduled for October 10-12, 2023, at Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Lodge, in Montréal, Canada, FlexPackCon options audio system from main model proprietor corporations like PepsiCo and Mars, together with main producers like Dow and Nova Chemical substances, in addition to market consultants from organizations like Consortium for Waste Circularity and Polytechnique Montréal. Packaging Digest is a media accomplice for this occasion.
The convention is organized by the Versatile Packaging Division of SPE, the affiliation that unites plastics professionals worldwide. This community of plastics professionals spans all the provide chain, from supplies and gear suppliers to converters and model homeowners. This system for FlexPackCon is designed to enchantment to versatile packaging professionals in all these areas.
From a sustainability perspective, convention attendees will find out about new end-of-life choices, together with mechanical, superior, and nano recycling. Periods will deal with key points just like the mass-balance idea, life-cycle evaluation (LCA), and compostability. One in every of my favourite titles is the Thursday keynote: “In Single-Use Plastics, the Situation is Single-Use, Not Plastic.”
Amongst new applied sciences to be proven are cavitation (creating small voids in movie for sustainable functions), and nanofibers as a nucleating agent. And this session caught my eye due to its intelligent title: “Botox for Blown Movie Producers – Learn how to Get Rid of Wrinkles.”
Scan the agenda under to see all of the matters. All tutorials on Tuesday, October 10, are included with a convention registration.
Tracks embody:
• Barrier by way of Components and Coatings;
• Bio-based Plastics and Compostables;
• Extrusion and Processing Improvements;
• Movie Construction Design;
• PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances); and
• Recycling and Regulatory.
To study extra and to register, go to the FlexPackCon 2023 web site.
Tuesday, October 10
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.: ISO Requirements Overview and LCA Replace – Outlook for the SPE Versatile Packaging Division
This tutorial will tackle the basics of Life Cycle Evaluation (LCA), which has develop into a cornerstone of the trade for driving sustainability and design. The tutorial will tackle the basics of circularity and the round economic system exercise within the international enviornment, together with how LCA shall be used within the growth of the ISO round economic system requirements at the moment beneath growth.
Presenter: Mike Levy, First Setting
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: How Versatile Packaging shall be Affected by Present and Future Rules
The tutorial will cowl international developments on chemical restrictions (equivalent to PFAS), product bans, and prolonged producer duty (EPR) approaches within the European Union, the US, and different fashions.
Presenter: Nhat Nguyen, Chemical Watch by enhesa
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.: ISCC PLUS for the Round Financial system and Bioeconomy
This tutorial will clarify all the things it is advisable know to grasp ISCC Plus certification. The significance of a mass-balance idea within the ISCC system shall be mentioned, whereas offering direct purposes of the ISCC PLUS system to the plastics/packaging industries all through the presentation.
Presenter: Maxwell Pfotenhauer, SCS International Providers
4:30 – 5:00 p.m.: Sustainable Packaging and Learn how to Meet Your Targets
This tutorial will inform the viewers in regards to the present and future challenges in sustainable packaging that can assist you keep aggressive on this altering market. It should present a evaluate of the market developments (equivalent to shorter runs, a greater diversity of supplies, and the round economic system) and penalties for equipment wants (extra flexibility of runs utilizing a wider vary of supplies together with bio resins). Lastly, the tutorial will tackle the know-how getting used right now to orient movie for functions of sustainability, recyclability, value financial savings, and efficiency enhancements.
Presenter: Steve Despain, Reifenhauser Inc.
5:00 – 5:30 p.m.: Break
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.: Welcome Mixer / Pupil Posters / Reveals Open
Wednesday, October 11
8:00 – 8:10 a.m.: Welcome Remarks
8:10 – 8:50 a.m.: Keynote: Compostable Versatile Movie for Snack Meals – Growth and Commercialization
PepsiCo has launched a brand new Industrial Compostable Licensed compostable bundle for its snack merchandise portfolio within the US and another international locations. This presentation will share a number of the technical challenges and experiences throughout growth and commercialization, in addition to what the long run would appear to be.
Presenter: Pak Meng Cham, PepsiCo
8:50 – 9:30 a.m.: Keynote: Bioplastics from a US Coverage Perspective, and the Position of LCA In This Course of
This presentation will concentrate on key points relating to bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, life-cycle evaluation (LCA), and what the important thing coverage drivers are right now for plastics basically.
Presenter: Mike Levy, First Setting
9:30 – 9:35 a.m.: Break
9:35 – 10:00 a.m.: The Utilization and Practicalities of Twin Screw Extruders as A part of Movie Extrusion Programs
Study in regards to the utilization and practicalities of twin-screw extruders as a part of movie extrusion methods. Twin-screw extruders (TSEs) are used to combine polymers, components, fillers, and lively components to impart focused and distinctive properties into polymers for all sorts of movies. Advantages of twin-screw extruders for processing reclaim, bioplastics, and specialty and shear delicate formulations for mono and coextruded movies will defined.
Presenter: Steve Publish, Leistritz Extrusion
9:35 – 10:00 a.m.: How a Efficiency-Primarily based Pure Polymer is Remodeling Conventional Versatile Packaging Codecs
Primarily based on excessive amylose starch, Kuraray’s Plantic providing is a pure, plant-based polymer that gives gasoline barrier — a singular versatile packaging innovation. A best-in-class LCA shares diminished carbon emissions with a product that provides shelf-life extension and food-waste discount. With end-of-life eventualities of compostability and recyclability, Plantic providing will be reclaimed within the restoration of versatile and semi-rigid plastics, or repulped and recycled within the paper stream when used with paper.
Presenter: David Chacon, Kuraray America
10:00 – 10:25 a.m.: Botox for Blown Movie Producers – Learn how to Get Rid of Wrinkles
Wrinkles are a symptom of extreme manufacturing issues with blown movie traces. This presentation describes a strategy to establish the basis causes of wrinkles and contains examples of methods to attenuate the affect of these causes.
Presenter: Paul Waller, Plastics Touchpoint Group Inc.
10:00 – 10:25 a.m.: Novel Compostable Plastic Movies for Meals and Healthcare Packaging Functions
Compostable versatile movies are an revolutionary method towards reservations about plastic packaging; they’ll break down naturally in the best setting. Compostable movies can be utilized in numerous purposes, equivalent to lamination sealant layer for multilayer movies for pouch/sachet packaging purposes for meals, pharma/nutraceutical, and medical packaging purposes or standalone movies for plastic baggage for meals, recent produce, and garment packaging. They may also be used as lidding movies for numerous cups, pods and containers for espresso, recent produce, or ready meals packaging.
On this work, numerous versatile packaging movies produced by way of blown movie extrusion traces have been studied to exhibit their efficiency for the above-mentioned purposes. The recommended compostable resolution has the identical efficiency options as typical versatile packaging supplies. It has nice optical and mechanical properties, will bond nicely to the print internet, and has glorious heat-seal properties. These supplies will be processed on customary pouch/sachet packaging machines or bag-making traces with excessive throughput.
Presenter: Mehdi Pakravan, Polykar Co.
10:25 – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 – 11:10 a.m.: Boosting Sustainability with Triple Bubble Expertise
Triple Bubble know-how helps advance sustainability efforts within the versatile packaging trade in two methods: (1) It helps recyclability by offering substitute choices of conventional multi-material movie buildings, that are pricey or not possible to recycle, with new mono-material ones which are simply recyclable. (2) It helps cut back EPR charges by offering the choices talked about within the level above and by providing important weight discount choices of these conventional multi-material movie buildings.
Presenter: Adolfo Edgar, KUHNE Anlagenbau GmbH
10:45 – 11:10 a.m.: A Compostable Risky Corrosion Inhibiting Packaging for Safety of Metals
Polyethylene baggage containing unstable corrosion inhibitors defend ferrous metallic elements throughout transit and storage. With rising urgency in lowering the quantity of polyolefin-based packaging materials that find yourself in landfills, there may be an curiosity in biodegradable/compostable packaging materials able to offering unstable corrosion inhibition (VCI) for short-term storage and transportation of ferrous metals. A brand new unstable corrosion inhibitor was developed that meets the Nationwide Affiliation of Corrosion Engineering customary, NACE TM0208, “Laboratory Take a look at to Consider the Vapor-Inhibiting Means of Risky Corrosion Inhibitor Supplies for Momentary Safety of Ferrous Steel Surfaces.” The chemical compounds used for this movie had been fastidiously chosen to not intrude with composability of the ultimate movie and is licensed 100% compostable by TUV Austria (OK Compost) for the EN 13432 customary.
Presenters: Mahin Shahlari and Mitchell Fillbach, NTIC
11:10 – 11:35 a.m.: Recyclable Mono Materials Packaging Choices with Electron Beam Expertise
Using electron beam know-how to crosslink polyethylene and different polymeric movies is just not new. Nonetheless, current curiosity in the usage of EB know-how to facilitate recylability for mono supplies is rising. This session particulars low-voltage EB know-how in versatile packaging purposes, particularly how EB crosslinking know-how helps the performance of mono supplies for downstream processing. The presentation will focus on how these mono materials crosslinked movies are recyclable.
Presenter: Im Rangwalla, Vitality Sciences Inc.
11:10 – 11:35 a.m.: Growth of Excessive Fuel Barrier Shrinkable Movie Utilizing Polyglycolic Acid (PGA) for Mono-material
Polyglycolic acid (PGA) is well-known as the only polyester and biodegradable polymer, and PGA exhibits superior gasoline barrier property by orienting the amorphous sheet. This session will present that PE/PVDC/PE shrinkable movie will be changed by PGA-ML, and PGA-ML will be handled as mono-material PE for the round economic system. Outcomes present that 1micron of PGA is sufficient for safeguarding meals packaging of recent pink meats, cheeses, and such. A mechanical recycling check for PGA-ML is now being executed in Germany.
Presenter: Ito Daisuke, Kureha Corp.
11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Cavitation as a Instrument for Sustainable Packaging Design
Cavitation includes the creation of small voids in a movie by incorporating incompatible particles adopted by orientation (sometimes machine route orientation or biaxial orientation). Voids diffract gentle, rising the opacity of the movie, which is essential for lowering ink utilization and offering a lightweight barrier. Cavitation additionally reduces movie density, rising movie yield, lowering materials consumption, and enabling floatability of conventionally dense polymers in recycle separation methods. Cavitation maintains improved mechanical properties of thinner gauge blown movies. This session will describe new polymeric cavitation agent (PCA) know-how that’s engineered to beat limitations of different strategies (chemical and bodily foaming) for producing voids.
Presenter: Ryan McEneany, VOID Applied sciences
11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Using Spray Dried Lignocellulosic Nanofibers as a Nucleating Agent in PLA to Improve Tensile and Barrier Efficiency of a Bio-Primarily based and Biodegradable Composite
Regardless of its guarantees as a bio-based and biodegradable various to conventional petroleum-based polymers, polylactic acid (PLA) suffers from being fairly brittle whereas additionally having worse barrier properties than non-degrading alternate options equivalent to polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene. On this session, we’ll present lignocellulosic nanofibers (LCNF), which have been spray dried to permit for facile soften compounding into PLA, as a nucleating agent to not directly enhance oxygen and water-vapor barrier properties and tensile properties. This demonstrates that spray dried LCNF is an satisfactory drop-in filler that requires no change to present PLA extrusion processes.
Presenter: Troy Su, College of Toronto
12:00 – 1:35 p.m.: Lunch
1:35 – 2:15 p.m.: Keynote: The Way forward for Sustainable Versatile Packaging-Lengthy-Time period Strategic Forecasts To 2032
Outcomes of a Smithers report contains an examination of sustainable versatile packaging developments for consumer-packaged items (CPG), meals and non-food, over the following 10 years, and the way customers and producers will alter, in gentle of technological developments, rules, shopper expectations, regulatory proposals, and main plans by CPG corporations which are already shaping the 2032 market.
Presenter: Thomas Dunn, Flexpacknology LLC
2:15 – 2:20 p.m.: Break
2:20 – 2:45 p.m.: Use of Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles as a Barrier Coating for Meals Grade Packaging
This session explores the event and analysis of graphene oxide coating as a substitute for the aluminum foil layer in retort grade pouches, which is a vital space of curiosity as we glance to ship people to Mars. In comparison with aluminum foil, used for airtight barrier properties of retort grade pouches, a graphene oxide coating might evaluate favorably to the barrier properties of foil, however is lighter, extra versatile, and permits for ash-free incineration.
Presenter: Michaela Gibson, Clemson College
2:20 – 2:45 p.m.: Closing the Loop Whereas Closing Efficiency Gaps in Movie Machinability: Developments in Mono-material, Multilayer Movie Options
Closing the Loop contains re-designing multi-material movies into mechanically recyclable all-PE or principally PE buildings. Understanding packaging gear variables and choices for modification to run all-PE buildings will help to additional shut gaps in packaging productiveness relative to incumbent non-recyclable packaging. Right here we offer a case examine on how materials choice in multi-layer PE movies Designed for Recyclability affect the packaging productiveness on a horizontal form-fill-seal standup pouch line.
Presenter: Michelle Tsui, The Dow Chemical Co.
2:45 – 3:10 p.m.: Efficiency PE Options Enabling Extra Recyclable Barrier Coex Thermoformed Movies
New applied sciences equivalent to ExxonMobil high-performance polyethylene (PE) and ExxonMobil’s ExxtendTM know-how for Superior Recycling will help contribute to the circularity of plastic packaging. How can probably recyclable movies be designed with out compromising the technical necessities which are wanted all through the worth chain? A evaluate of the versatile barrier packaging market together with challenges and developments will present the idea for why this is likely one of the most essential challenges going through the trade right now. Examples in forged and blown thermoformed movie purposes will exhibit how ExxonMobil excessive efficiency polyethylene and the incorporation of small quantities of EVOH (to assist retain oxygen barrier properties) can be utilized to assist displace the necessity for nylon.
Presenters: Martin Antensteiner, ExxonMobil Expertise and Engineering Co., and Camille Duvalle, ExxonMobil Product Options Co.
2:45 – 3:10 p.m.: Excessive Fuel Barrier PVA/LDH Coatings for Versatile Packaging
In our examine, we synthesized layered double hydroxides (LDHs) with a excessive side ratio utilizing the calcination-reconstruction technique to organize a gasoline barrier coating for versatile packaging purposes. The synthesized LDHs had been blended with totally different grades of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and coated onto a polyethylene terephthalate substrate utilizing a easy bar coating method. The coating weight and LDHs focus inside PVA had been different to optimize the coating properties. We used a number of strategies, together with transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, wide-angle X-ray diffraction, atomic power microscopy, and rheological measurements, to research the microstructure of the LDH nanoparticles and PVA/LDH coatings. Lastly, we measured the oxygen transmission charges of the coatings utilizing permeability checks and analyzed the outcomes utilizing totally different permeability fashions.
Presenter: Emre Vatansever, Polytechnique Montreal
3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Break
3:30 – 3:55 p.m.: Enhanced Oxygen Barrier Layers primarily based on Cellulose Nanomaterials
Functions of cellulose nanomaterials (cellulose nanofibrils and cellulose nanocrystals) have obtained rising consideration in recent times. This presentation will cowl current developments in enhancing the usage of cellulose nanomaterials as the first element of the oxygen barrier layer inside a versatile packaging system for meals. The developments had been achieved by means of the event of the understanding of the method of blade coating cellulose nanomaterials onto substrates.
Moreover, progress in direction of the discount within the brittle nature of cellulose nanomaterial movies has been achieved by means of the purposeful design of the layers utilizing the focused incorporation of plasticizers and water-soluble polymers.
Presenter: Daniel Franke, USDA Forest Merchandise Laboratory
3:30 – 3:55 p.m.: Borstar Polyethylene because the Enabler for Designing Recyclable PE Packaging
On this presentation, we’ll focus on how challenges to revamp polyolefins to enhance their recyclability are addressed utilizing the superior polyethylene polymers produced within the Borstar@ PE course of. In contrast to many polyethylene grades meant for packaging purposes, Borstar@ PE grades are designed with a really excessive bimodality, which permits us to attain a singular mixture of properties; such distinctive mixture will be significantly helpful for the event of recyclable PE versatile packaging.
We are going to focus on few particular examples the place the excessive bimodality of Borstar@ PE grades permits to both design recyclable PE movies or permits to maximise the incorporation of post-consumer recyclate (PCR) into the movie construction with minimal affect on the ensuing movie properties.
Presenter: Andrey Buryak, Borealis Polyolefine GmbH
3:55 – 4:20 p.m.: Manufacturing of Translucent Movies from Nanofibrillated Cellulose for Packaging Functions
Efficiency BioFilaments makes use of northern bleached softwood kraft pulp and a number of passes by means of high-consistency refiners to supply nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC). Because of the manufacturing course of, the nanofibrils are comparatively lengthy and skinny. This facilitates good retention of the nanofibrils on a forming material, making it doable to fabricate rolls of the fabric on typical paper machines. The fibrils are identified to have many fascinating properties; one among which is being to extend the dry power properties of paper when used as an additive within the manufacturing thereof.
Non-porous, translucent movies may also be produced from furnishes comprising principally of NFC, with potential purposes in areas equivalent to packaging. The diploma of transparency of the movie, in addition to its mechanical and barrier properties decide which purposes will be focused. The work offered right here describes outcomes from intensive laboratory and pilot scale trials geared toward optimizing these traits.
The presentation will concentrate on methods for bettering (1) the optical properties (opacity, transparency, haze) and barrier properties of CF movies by calendering and/or through the use of index matching polymers and (2) the uniformity and mechanical properties of NFC movies by addition of refined fibers, and/or through the use of numerous components and drainage aids.
The affect of the morphology of nanofibrillated cellulose on movie properties was additionally investigated and shall be mentioned.
Presenter: Gurminder Minhas, Efficiency BioFilaments Inc.
3:55 – 4:20 p.m.: Placing the Client on the Heart of Sustainable Packaging Innovation
Within the backdrop of bold sustainability targets set throughout the packaging provide chain, shoppers are more and more conscious of various packaging choices that meet their way of life wants and their want to look after the setting. Monitoring the patron pulse on packaging shall be a essential element to driving the adoption of significant packaging options from the trade that meet right now’s shopper wants with a concentrate on a sustainable future. We are going to share highlights of our intensive analysis over 5 years on the patron notion of plastics and packaging, in addition to the work that NOVA Chemical substances is doing to innovate in packaging by placing the patron on the heart of the innovation course of.
Presenter: Brant Wunderlich, Nova Chemical substances
4:20 – 4:45 p.m.: Subsequent GEN Cling Expertise — PIB Free Blown Stretch Cling Movie
Polyisobutylene (PIB) is the most well-liked additive to ship cling for blown stretch cling movie. PIB is a viscous liquid at room temperature and must be injected into the extruder to combine with polyethylene (PE). Because of the partial incompatibility between PIB and PE, PIB migrates to the movie floor and brings the cling property to the movie. Nonetheless, PIB creates many hassles for movie converters. Now we have developed a PIB-free co-extruded blown stretch movie, with optimum formulations by way of Dow’s distinctive resins within the cling and launch layers, to ship desired cling efficiency. This resolution eliminates hassles of PIB and creates a high-performance one-sided cling movie that delivers excessive cling power and low unwind power.
Presenter: Rajen Patel, The Dow Chemical Co.
4:20 – 4:45 p.m.: Partnership for Sustainable Answer for Barrier Properties
Presenter: Guenther Hering, Henkel Corp.
4:45 – 5:25 p.m.: Keynote: Versatile Packaging Previous, Current and Future: Reflections on a Century of Expertise Development
Versatile packaging is the quickest rising packaging format attributable to its means to fulfill packaging wants on the lowest value and with the least quantity of fabric utilization. The presenter will hint the historical past of versatile packaging, describing main developments in know-how and the science behind them. Learnings from the previous, guided by improved scientific perception and engineering rules, will be leveraged to adapt versatile packaging to altering market, societal, and regulatory calls for. The presenter will interject private observations from his profession within the trade spanning 5 a long time, spotlight present challenges, and undertaking into the long run.
Presenter: Barry Morris, Dow
6:10 – 8:40 p.m.: SPE FlexPackCon Reception, sponsored by Nova Chemical substances (offsite: 463 Sainte-Catherine Avenue West, Leisure District, Metro Place-des-Arts)
Le Balcon is Montreal’s most fun leisure venue — the best place to expertise gifted artists in an intimate but festive setting. The distinctive dinner-show format combines excellent market delicacies with top-notch performances, leading to a really magical night.
Thursday, October 12
8:00 – 8:15 a.m.: Welcome / Acknowledgements
8:15 – 8:55 a.m.: Keynote: In Single-Use Plastics, the Situation is Single-Use, Not Plastic
Though plastic appears to have develop into the icon for “environmental evil,” a complete and scientific view on the difficulty and the alternate options is seldom supplied. Life Cycle Evaluation has traditionally supplied such holistic view by encompassing all the lifecycle of a product and a complete set of environmental indicators. Nonetheless, the newer consideration on plastic litter within the setting, significantly the marine ecosystems, had not but been built-in into the LCA methodology. Selections have thus been made primarily based on a plastic-reduction focus, with out contemplating the potential impacts of the alternate options that might fill the operate left unfilled by the plastic discount.
The complicated and inter-related problems with plastic sustainability can now begin to be disentangled and put into perspective — with one another and with the alternate options — with an goal and scientific foundation utilizing life-cycle evaluation.
Presenter: Anne-Marie Boulay, CIRAIG
8:55 – 9:00 a.m.: Break
9:00 – 9:25 a.m.: Recyclable Oxygen Barrier Packaging: A Sustainable Answer for Versatile Meals Packaging
Oxygen barrier versatile packaging is a substantial sector within the meals packaging market as they permit for rising the shelf lifetime of delicate meals merchandise like meat and poultry. Nonetheless, barrier plastic movies are often product of multilayer buildings with low sealing temperature skins (often PE or PP), and an oxygen barrier layer (often nylon or EVOH) as the center layer. The multi-material nature of the oxygen barrier movies makes their recycling a problem. Discovering options for sustainable oxygen barrier movies is important in lowering their environmental affect.
On this presentation, we examine two sustainable oxygen barrier options: utilizing particular compatibilizers to enhance the compatibility of various elements throughout recycling and utilizing barrier adhesives. Benefits and disadvantages of every know-how shall be mentioned intimately.
Presenter: Ebrahim Jalali Dil, PolyExpert
9:00 – 9:25 a.m.: Sustainable Versatile Packaging Tips for the Meals Business
To assist the meals trade by means of their quest in direction of sustainable packaging alternate options with out going into greenwashing, the Meals Packaging and Engineering Institute (Institut de Technologie en Emballages et Génie Alimentaire – ITEGA) has developed a sensible information of what to contemplate for sustainable meals packaging. It contains fundamentals position of meals packaging, actors concerned in sustainable packaging design and their roles, precise sustainable developments, shopper perceptions as to packaging, and an eco-design method for the trade. Since versatile packaging is vastly utilized by the meals trade, an emphasis on this class shall be offered.
Presenter: Anne Maltais, ITEGA
9:25 – 9:50 a.m.: Taking on the Problem to Mix Excessive High quality and Recyclability of Polyolefin Movies Due to a Excessive-Efficiency Additive Answer
Round use of plastics is a necessity. How? Solely 10% to fifteen% of all plastic packaging materials is collected for recycling. From that, solely 10% is successfully recycled, leaving round 80 million tons of waste materials unexploited. This might change through the use of the best know-how and turning the waste into “renewed” priceless uncooked materials. Nonetheless, repeated publicity to warmth and shears will trigger exponential degradation of the plastic materials particularly if it goes by means of a number of recycling levels. We’ll current industrial case research that present the worth of a correct stabilization bundle that enables the retention of stream and polymer integrity, even with elevated recycled content material, inducing a discount of gels and black specks formation, in blown PE movies and even in BOPP movies.
Presenter: Emilie Meddah, Clariant Corp.
9:25 – 9:50 a.m.: Plastics Recycling: State of the Business
Targets set by brand-owners and rules have been contributing to a rising demand for recyclates globally. Nonetheless, provide to fulfil these targets continues to be restricted, particularly for high-quality food-grade recycled resins for use in meals and beverage packaging. This session will cowl:
• Latest developments in regulation associated to plastics sustainability globally and their affect on the recycling trade.
• Targets and progress of fast-moving shopper items (FMCGs) on plastic packaging from recycled materials.
• Perception into the capabilities and challenges within the recycled polymer trade.
• Deep dive on the worldwide and North America recycling provide by nation, polymer, and feedstock supply.
• Outlook on the required recycle volumes to attain trade targets.
• Execs and cons of chemical recycling and its position in contributing to the recycling trade within the mid and lengthy phrases.
• Chemical recycling footprint globally and in North America, together with provide by nation, know-how, feedstock supply, and recycled product.
• Recycled plastics pricing drivers and mechanisms, globally and in North America.
• What’s subsequent for recycled plastics when it comes to sorting and assortment, trade growth, end-markets, and provide chain.
Presenter: Paula Leardini, ICIS
9:50 – 10:15 a.m.: Additive Options to Enhance the Recyclability of Polyolefins
With the rising consciousness of plastic air pollution points, there’s a clear and current must recycle plastic versatile packaging to help the purpose of the round economic system. On this work, options to stabilizing polyolefins for recycling and recycling multi-materials plastic movies are offered, together with synergistic blends of liquid phosphite masterbatches with excessive solubility, and excessive exercise phosphites with different stabilizers. Our novel compatibilizer offers the opportunity of recycle-ready multi-material movie construction design and improves the sustainability of the multi-material movies.
Presenter: MiaoMiao Xiao, Ingenia Polymers
9:50 – 10:15 a.m.: Tackling the Decontamination Problem: Nanorecycling Plastic Waste
Whereas plastic air pollution is an more and more regarding situation, entry to high-quality feedstock is a serious impediment to establishing dependable, large-scale recycling streams. Even in closed-loop recycling methods, corporations face the problem of fabric contamination. Pyrowave has developed an revolutionary know-how of nano-recycling that purifies these supplies on the molecular degree, eradicating all undesirable contaminants and returning the resin to its virgin state. The patented know-how makes it doable to course of blended plastics, equivalent to plastic movies and versatile packaging, regardless of the contaminants which may be current. The know-how is low-carbon, electrified and offers 100% traceable resins with makes use of equivalent to these of virgin resins.
Presenter: Virginie Bussieres, Pyrowave
10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.: Break
10:35 – 11:00 a.m.: Synergistic Impact between EVOH and Polyethylene with UltraGuard for Oxygen and Moisture Safety in Versatile Packaging
EVOH and polyethylene are sometimes coextruded in versatile packaging to allow high-barrier recyclable buildings. Whereas EVOH is used as a wonderful oxygen barrier, it’s sometimes reported as having a poor moisture barrier. Polyethylene is utilized in versatile packaging for its extensive recyclability, sealing properties, and, in some circumstances, its use additionally helps enhance the moisture barrier however lacks an oxygen barrier. The excessive permeation ranges of oxygen or moisture in a versatile bundle can lead to spoilage or physicochemical adjustments in a product evidenced in adjustments in taste oxidation (rancidity), and texture, amongst different traits that straight have an effect on the product’s shelf life. Subsequently, the packaging usually requires the usage of nonrecyclable supplies to succeed in the minimal ranges of barrier efficiency.
In a collaborative effort, Kuraray and Milliken explored a coextruded EVOH and PE movie construction that has glorious oxygen- and moisture-barrier efficiency, along with being probably recyclable.
Presenters: Didier Houssier, Kuraray America Inc., and David Caro, Milliken
10:35 – 11:00 a.m.: Advances in Finish-of-Life Applied sciences and Sustainability of Versatile Movie Packaging, Multilayers, Barrier Buildings, and Pouches
Versatile packaging is extra environment friendly and economical than different bodily codecs due to decrease materials and power consumption, manufacturing and transport prices, diminished meals and packaging waste, and favorable LCAs and carbon footprint. Regardless of this, it continues to come across opposition from environmental and anti-plastics teams and authorities laws attributable to challenges with waste administration worldwide, difficulties in end-of-life assortment, sorting and mechanical recycling of movie buildings, and issues about “single-use” packaging, sustainability, and the round economic system.
To fight this, and to eradicate disposal by landfilling and incineration, a variety of initiatives is beneath intensive growth to permit reclamation of versatile packaging waste. These developments and improvements are surveyed to exhibit the scope and depth of present actions, areas of development and future developments.
Presenter: Terence Cooper, ARGO Group Worldwide
11:00 – 11:25 a.m.: Accelerating the Bundle Growth Course of with Predictive Modeling
In the present day’s versatile packaging faces an ever-changing setting of latest sustainability calls for, regulatory necessities, and materials choices. Creating multilayer movies that meet these more and more complicated calls for with out sacrificing efficiency or rising prices is extraordinarily tough.
The quick tempo of change also can make it impractical or too pricey to judge and evaluate totally different options on business movie and changing traces. Mathematical fashions and on-line instruments that precisely predict multilayer movie properties will help handle these complexities and speed up innovation with fewer trials. This presentation will exhibit how Nova Chemical’s BONFIRE Movie Growth Platform can speed up the movie growth course of by predicting properties of multilayer movies and laminates, figuring out the perfect supplies for particular purposes, and educating rising movie growth professionals. BONFIRE 6.0 enhancements together with new predictions and mannequin enhancements shall be offered utilizing case research.
Presenter: Dan Ward, Nova Chemical substances
11:00 – 11:25 a.m.: PRFLEX: Enhance the Recycling Fee of Versatile Plastic Packaging
Versatile plastic packaging represents a good portion of plastic packaging utilized in Canada, however its restoration charges stay low. Within the context of the evolution of prolonged producer duty (EPR) throughout the nation, a consortium made up of the Canadian Plastics Pact (CPP), the Chemistry Business Affiliation of Canada (CIAC), Round Supplies, the Round Plastic Taskforce (CPT), Éco Entreprises Québec (ÉEQ) and the Recycling Partnership have set themselves the final word goal of accelerating the recycled content material of packaging by bettering sorting and recycling capacities all through the nation. This presentation will evaluate the outcomes obtained and element the following steps that might have an effect on the versatile plastic packaging manufacturing trade.
Presenter: Charles David Mathieu-Poulin, TC Transcontinental
11:25 – 11:50 a.m.: Revolutionizing Packaging: Reaching Sustainability and Efficiency With PE/PA Multilayer Movies
The recyclability of single-use packaging has pushed our industries sustainability analysis efforts over current years, and “designed-for-recycling” pointers have been probably the most used methodologies to handle the problem. First variations of those pointers centered on monomaterial PE movie buildings because the evident resolution. Nonetheless, this method introduced a number of drawbacks when it comes to movie efficiency and safety of the packed items.
We are going to focus on the evolution of nylon’s position in multilayer versatile PE packaging, together with the acceptance of PE/PA movies by a lot of the present recycling organizations globally. Moreover, we’ll spotlight how this permits packaging designers to create sustainable movies with out compromising efficiency and present examples of purposes utilizing recycled resins containing PE/PA.
Presenter: Brad Celmer, UBE America
11:25 – 11:50 a.m.: Session To Be Introduced Quickly
11:50 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch / Break
1:30 – 2:10 p.m.: Keynote: In direction of Recyclable Versatile Packaging: Boosting Demand, Provide, and All the things In Between
To bundle its merchandise, like sweet, pet meals, and grains, Mars primarily makes use of versatile plastic. Whereas versatile plastic packaging affords many benefits, North America’s recycling price is at the moment very low. This presentation will cowl Mars’s work to discover various options, design for recyclability, and enhance restoration.
Presenter: Eadaoin Quinn, Mars Inc.
2:10 – 2:35 p.m.: The Way forward for Packaging Is Round!
Waste processing wants a strong recycling eco-system to repair the restricted choices for multilayer versatile packaging at its finish of life. Regenerative Strong Gasification (RRG) is the “keystone” strong know-how to be positioned at landfills and incineration services. RRG is appropriate with all different recycling strategies as a result of it accepts 100% of plastics and all different waste that finally ends up at landfills or incineration with out sorting, exception, or limitation. This presentation will concentrate on three elements: (1) the basics of the science; (2) the enterprise mannequin; and (3) scalability. We are going to make clear the issue, share an answer, and advocate what the versatile print and packaging trade can do.
Presenter: Michael Ferrari, Consortium for Waste Circularity
2:10 – 2:35 p.m.: Biaxially Oriented PLA Movies with Excessive Energy, Readability, and Puncture Resistance
Poly(lactide) (PLA) has obtained super consideration from each academia and trade attributable to its means to handle environmental issues associated to plastic air pollution and persistence. Nonetheless, PLA’s inherent brittleness, poor thermal stability, low elongation at break, and poor soften processing forestall its use in a spectrum of purposes with out modification or specialised processing.
One such approach to extend the power and readability of PLA is biaxial orientation, which permits for stress induced crystallization. Movies equivalent to these have been utilized in multilayer laminates as a printing layer. Present industrial requirements embody cellophane and Biax PLA, which operate in compostable purposes. Movies of modified PLA resins had been created utilizing biaxial orientation, and provide a biobased and compostable substitute to that of biaxially oriented polyolefins equivalent to PE and PET.
Presenter: Anthony Keyes, Natur-Tec
2:35 – 3:00 p.m.: Protected Meals Delicate Colorimetric Indicator for Detection of Risky Gases (Ammonia) Throughout Fish Spoilage
Security of meals merchandise is of prime significance for shoppers and producers. This examine is in regards to the preparation, characterization, and analysis of an FDA-approved delicate colorimetric sensor to judge pH variation of fish packaged merchandise by means of the detection of unstable gases (TVB-N) throughout their spoilage.
Presenter: Maryam Ameri, Polytechnique Montreal
2:35 – 3:00 p.m.: Growth of the First FDA Cleared Aseptically Produced Medical Intravenous Answer Container
Presenter: Len Czuba, Czuba Enterprises Inc.
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.: Break
3:15 – 3:35 p.m.: Concerns within the Growth of Non-Fluorinated Processing Aids
Alongside the speedy transition of the polyethylene trade away from fluoropolymer-based processing aids, the event and commercialization of non-fluorinated know-how has been important over the previous few years. This presentation will cowl essential issues and screening strategies used at Nova Chemical substances for the event and commercialization of non-fluorinated processing aids. Along with soften fracture clearing efficacy, mechanistic insights, interactions of PPAs with antagonistic components, screening strategies for die-lip build-up, and product efficiency shall be mentioned.
Presenter: Joshua Heidebrecht, Nova Chemical substances
3:35 – 3:45 p.m.: Non-PFAS PPAs for Polyolefins
With the polyethylene trade transitioning away from fluoropolymer-based processing aids, converters and movie producers are counting on the event and commercialization of non-PFAS PPAs to keep up present charges and product efficiency. This panel dialogue will cowl the efficacy of Nova Chemical substances non-fluorinated PPA know-how, showcasing that various chemistries will be applied in downstream purposes as a drop-in substitute to the incumbent PFAS PPAs.
Presenter: Zach Charlton, Ingenia Polymers
3:45 – 3:55 p.m.: Overview of Analysis of PFAS Free Components
Fast overview of the totally different applied sciences for PFAS free components. Focus on the strategies for evaluating the PFAS-free components. Focus on the problems of changing the present PFAS additive with one PFAS-free additive.
Presenter: Dan Moldovan, Shell
3:55 – 4:05 p.m.: Eliminating PFAS: The Nice Packaging Race
The EPA’s proposal to designate two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as hazardous substances created an trade race to commercialize various options. What’s the present standing? What work nonetheless must be executed? What have we realized alongside the best way? How can we anticipate and plan for future challenges?
Presenter: Rodney Weaver, Techmer p.m.
4:05 – 4:15 p.m.: Non-Fluorinated PPAs
With the polyethylene trade transitioning away from fluoropolymer-based processing aids, converters and movie producers are counting on the event and commercialization of non-PFAS PPAs to keep up present charges and product efficiency. This panel dialogue will cowl the efficacy of Nova Chemical substances non-fluorinated PPA know-how, showcasing that various chemistries will be applied in downstream purposes as a drop-in substitute to the incumbent PFAS PPAs.
Presenter: Joshua Heidebrecht, Nova Chemical substances
4:15 – 4:25 p.m.: PFAS-Free Rules in US
Presenter: Nhat Nguyen, Chemical Watch by enhesa
4:25 – 5:05 p.m.: PFAS Panel Dialogue
Panelists: Joshua Heidebrecht, NOVA Chemical substances; Rodney Weaver, Techmer p.m.; Zach Charlton, Ingenia Polymers; Nhat Nguyen, Chemical Watch by enhesa; Dan Moldovan, Shell
Lisa McTigue Pierce is Government Editor of Packaging Digest. She’s been a packaging media journalist since 1982 and tracks rising developments, new applied sciences, and greatest practices throughout a spectrum of markets for the publication’s international neighborhood. Attain her at [email protected] or 630-272-1774.