Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mellor

Company: KRÜSS GmbH

Title: Adapting to the Green Future: Minimising Production Errors by Assessing Material Compatibility for Sustainable Packaging

Language: English

Abstract: The coming “green revolution”, driven both from the consumer side and via legislation, such as the EU Green Deal, presents companies in the packaging sector with a significant push to develop more sustainable solutions.

Recently, Integration of recycled materials and switching to mono-material designs have become popular trends in the industry, however, from the perspective of inks, coatings, adhesives etc., such innovations often come with complications in terms of wettability and coating performance, which in turn can lead to increased production issues and product failures.

In this talk we outline a process for assessing substrate/coating matching and consider some common issues that often arise as a consequence of poor system compatibility. Finally, we will introduce a new production/QC optimised testing system for assessing coatability and printability of substrates.