Challenges to packaging in a global world

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Challenges to packaging in a global world

• Professor Gunilla Jönson
• Lund University
• E-mail gunilla.jonson_at_plog.lth.se

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Packaging is vital in todays world

• Packaging is needed for two reasons
• Provide food for all people
• Facilitate a global free trade

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Who cares about packaging?

• General public little understanding
• For some time environmental aspects came into
  focus
• Today supply chain effectiveness and efficiency
  with cost attention is in focus

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Packaging is not only a box or a bag

• Packaging is
• A coordinated system of preparing goods for
  safe, efficient and cost-effective transport,
  distribution, retailing, consumption and
  recovery, reuse or disposal combined with
  maximizing value, sales and hence profit.

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Packaging interrelates with successful logistics

• Packaging solutions
• Logistics in supply chain

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Continuous improvement of details

• Continuous attention to details is often more
  important and successful than major changes at
  one occasion to accomplish cost savings

Cost savings
Cost savings
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Time
Time
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Packaging materials should be on the move

• New material concepts must be developed
• Paper packaging industry needs
• to understand what future markets look for when
  it comes to packaging material and design
• to go for own RD in cooperation with
  universities to innovatively develop fibre based
  material properties
• to strive for time monopoly to be ahead of the
  competing materials

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Be sure to make use of the universities

• Industry sectors are expected be a driving force
  in technical university research
• Universities have an obligation to transfer their
  know-how to the society at large (The cooperation
  besides research and education)

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Challenges for packaging industry and research

• Develop tools to demonstrate how to utilise
  packaging in product development
• Get to understand the supply chains serving
  different industries and organisations in detail,
  analyse the consequences of new supply structures
  and changes that influence packaging

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Challenges for paper industry research

• In addition to cooperation with the packaging
  industry
• Develop its own research to pay more attention to
  the values possible to develop through new fibre
  based products and services
• Take advantage of scientific know-how and develop
  the packaging materials to be ahead of competition

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