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The 5th edition of the PCD congress-exhibition (Perfumes, Cosmetics & Design) will address the issues of sustainable development and respect for the environment in packaging.

On July 4, 2008 Mondi Frantschach inaugurated a Bag Application Centre (BAC) at the site of its R&D Innovation Centre. The already successful development work now also covers packaging technology research. In his opening speech, Peter J. Oswald, CEO of the Mondi Division Europe & International, stressed that Mondi is now in an even better position to provide comprehensive customer-oriented product development from fibre resources to the final packaging solution.

Indy is a standard packaging collection that is designed to seduce at first sight with its shapes, with the beauty of the materials and with the embellishment of the decorations. A packaging collection born to enhance any cosmetic formula and to give more value to a brand.

Milliken Chemical, a division of Milliken & Company, will present its clear vision for addressing the packaging sector’s continuing demands to drive down cost but improve the quality, functionality and aesthetics of final products, when it showcases its latest additives solutions to converters and specifiers at Interpack 2008. Visitors to Hall 10 Booth A06 can experience first-hand new opportunities to develop packaging innovations with breakthrough levels of clarity, take advantage of lower cost materials, improve production and end-product performance, or open up new directions in packaging design.

How will packaging look in ten years? What are our consumption patterns, and what makes packaging sell? These are the questions Korsnäs asked young design students at the Packaging Impact Design Awards (PIDA). This year, concurrent competitions were held in Sweden, Germany and France. First out of the box was the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. This year’s PIDA coincides with Korsnäs’ introduction of the new cartonboard Frövi White, and the contest assignment was to choose a luxury product in the beauty, beverage, confectionery, fashion, media or health & medical segment and design packaging for it using Frövi White These are the market segments for which Korsnäs introduced the new board, developed with focus on whiteness, smoothness and formability.

A formal definition of sustainable packaging is needed to provide a common platform of understanding against which the packaging supply chain can measure its efforts. This was the objective of the Definition of Sustainable Packaging released in October 2005 by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (www.sustainablepackaging.org). Drawing on fundamental eco-efficiency concepts and sustainability principles articulated by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their book, "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things," the definition outlines a framework for sustainability in the context of packaging and its related materials systems.

With a history spanning more than twenty years, TNA has grown from a packaging machine supplier to become recognised internationally as a leader in packaging technology and solutions.

Competition was fierce and standards high when Sweden’s most prominent packaging design schools went head-to-head in Korsnäs’ PIDA design competition. This year’s theme was the health trend and the entries demonstrated the students’ creative approaches to customer friendly packages adapted to various sales channels like the Internet and speciality stores. “The designers of the winning entry made optimal use of shape, colour, punching and hanging features that did justice to the superb designability of Frövi cartonboard. A fine example of how the package can enhance the value of a simple product,” was the jury’s assessment.