Status of current developments and challenges in active and intelligent packaging Actinpak Event

Our Spring 2016 WGs meeting will take place on 4th and 5th of April 2016 in Munich, Germany. It will be organised jointly with PTS’ Innovative Packaging Symposium. These two days will be for the Working Groups to meet each other, both plenary (including guest speakers) and WG specific sessions. The plenary session on Tuesday afternoon will be open for industrial attendees to maximise the joint organisation.

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Presentations from this event are available at subpage Presentations from COST events.

Take HOME Messages

For SOCIETY

• Society and even packaging industry is still not enough informed about beneficial aspect of A&I packaging. Most of them don’t know what it is and what for it is.
• A&I packaging are beneficial for consumer but not only for them, it is beneficial in whole value chain.
• There is the primary shelf life but also the secondary shelf life should be considered and could be very useful for consumer.
• A&I packaging limits over-pack and save high value material: the food
• Packaging can be fun (functional inks, lighting, augmented reality).

For INDUSTRY

• 47 companies are involved but still not enough during meetings: how to improve?
• Barrier is key for fibre based systems to compete plastic in active packaging!
• How can we convince consumer about cost increase?
• A&I packaging are sometimes used but not identified.
• We should not be so strict with definitions. As soon as value added is provided to packaging, it could be considered as an intelligent packaging
• The data that companies can collect via smartphone app will allow paying more for packaging.

For RESEARCH

• ACTINPAK is a multidisciplinary actions: food scientist, chemist, paper processing, plastic processing, packaging, printing => we should remind basics before any discussions.
• Technology description should be precise when we discussed together.
• We need to collaborate more between food scientist and materials scientist.