Flexible plastic packaging is a growing segment in the packaging industry and has traditionally consisted of several layers of different types of plastics, often also including aluminum, which makes further recycling difficult. With an eye toward 2030, the year in which by 2030 all plastic packaging within the EU must be recyclable or reusable, monomaterials play a crucial role in the field of flexible packaging and have attracted the interest of the sector.

At the moment, one of the challenges that is on the table is how to achieve the same sealing quality in monomaterial flexible packaging, and we are going to dedicate this online Innovation Workshop that we organize together with secpho to this topic. We want to analyze the capabilities of laser technology and other Deep Tech to offer solutions to this technological challenge that many companies in the packaging sector will soon have to face. Until now, laser technology has been a powerful ally with multiple applications such as laser cutting, perforation, stamping or engraving.

In this session we will learn, next to different experts, the applications of the laser for the sealing of flexible packaging made of monomaterial.

Agenda

10h00 - Welcome and Presentation

• Sergio Sáez | secpho
• Àlex Brossa | Packaging Cluster

10h20 - Approach to challenges of sealing in flexible monomaterial packaging

• The perspective of FRUSELVA
• The perspective of VOLPACK

11h00 - Solutions Presentation

• Proposed solution 1: AIMEN
• Proposed solution 2: COHERENT
• Proposed solution 3:  DICOMOL
• Proposed solution 4: EURECAT
• Proposed solution 5: IRIS TECHNOLOGY
• Proposed solution 6: JEANOLOGIA LASER
• Proposed solution 7: LEITAT
• Proposed solution 8: MACSA ID
• Proposed solution 9: MTB
• Proposed solution 10: RECURSOS LASER
• Proposed solution 11: TEKNIKER

12h00 -  Open debate on the solutions presented and Q&A

13h00 -  End of the session

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Addressed to

Technical and Business Innovation Management staff
Research staff of R&D centers

Registration

• The webinar will be free for the members of the organizing clusters.
• The members of the Clúster Food+i will have to register from their website here.
• The members of other Catalan Clusters will enjoy a 15% of discount, if they indicated it through the registration process on the website of Packaging Cluster here. 
• The cost of the event in case of not being a member is € 170 + VAT.