Consumers are demanding food products to deliver real food experiences, clean label ingredients, removal of preservatives, longer shelf life. At the same time there are expectations of packaging materials to be sustainable, recyclable, Polymers are now needed to perform beyond natural barrier characteristics for water, oxygen and light transmission. Growth of e-commerce, expansion of the health and wellbeing and snacking markets will push towards better solutions in transparency, thermal performance, microwaveability and barrier performance.<br/><br/>High performance, passive, active and interactive packaging will be the future to deliver these demands, as food waste, artificial additives, fresh food solutions and food safe materials become ever inreasingly scrutinized by the consumer and through legislation.

Demands of the food industry for ever increasing material performance to meet the needs of today's consumers

255th National Meeting (2018)

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