Is there a future for the flowpack? It is from this question that the white paper “Flow wrap packaging: the most with the least. High protection, low impact “starts. It’s a technical-scientific publication done by the researchers of the Politecnico di Torino Beatrice Lerma and Doriana Dal Palù.
Riccardo Cavanna, the future president of UCIMA for the period 2022/2024, had the intuition that set the project in motion.
“The idea came to me while visiting a recycling center” he explained. “I realized that starting from the bottom, it was possible to think about sustainability in a different way, not only looking at the life cycle of the product but also rethinking it from a scientific and historical-cultural point of view. It is from here that I understood that, as a packaging industry, we had to go through the history of this wonderful package by looking at it from multiple points of view”.
The first official presentation of the white paper was held during IpackIma, an international trade fair specializing in packaging and processing, at the presence of over 120 participants.
A round table, moderated by journalist Luca Maria De Nardo, was done with several relators: Luca Ruini (CONAI President), Professor Paola Scarfato (Industrial Engineering Department of the Università di Salerno), Mario Molinaro (Business Director Flexible Packaging EU of Taghleef), Alberto Palaveri (Giflex President), and Mario Cerutti (Lavazza’s Chief Institutional Relations & Sustainability Officer) and Domenico Brisigotti (Coop food sales director) also finally Riccardo Cavanna.
“This publication -said the two curators -represents the first result of a research activity that investigates, in a broad sense, the relationship between flowpack and sustainability. The research work of the group of the Politecnico di Torino, which also saw the involvement of Dr. Ottavia Burello, represents the different players involved in the entire flowpack supply chain and the different functions and complexity of this type of flexible packaging.
The university has been a bridge between the world of business and the academic one, fostering mutual dialogue and focusing on possible critical issues to be reported to the world of political decision-makers and the overall supply chain”.
In this sense, the white paper represents the first step on a path that aims to continue over time, expand the network of collaborations and contributions to become a vademecum on everything related to the flowpack universe.
After the first official appointment, the publication is now ready to fly to Chicago, where Pack Expo, the most famous packaging fair on the American continent, is scheduled from 23 to 26 October. Here the second presentation of the white paper will be held in the presence of exceptional guests and testimonials.
To stay updated on this project and to download the publication, visit the website.
