HORGEN, Switzerland—To further accelerate the development of packaging innovation, The Dow Chemical Company (DOW) announced a global innovation and business development agreement with Nordmeccanica S.p.A., a worldwide leader in coating, laminating and metallizing machinery.
Both companies see enormous potential to advance solutions for the flexible packaging industry by combining adhesive development with machine pioneering that target new technologies for faster commercialization to market.
Pack Studios Mozzate Driving Adhesives Development
New developments can be expected from the joint collaboration with Dow and Nordmeccanica through Dow’s Pack Studios in Mozzate, Italy. Customized to address the needs of Dow’s adhesives customers, this innovation and technology training center offers a large collaboration space and hosts an industry scale Nordmeccanica Super Combi 3000 laminator line. This state of the art equipment allows international customers to test, prototype and bring forward innovation in packaging lamination without interrupting their own commercial production. The collaboration agreement between Dow and Nordmeccanica will also enable similar capabilities at additional Pack Studios around the globe.
Pack Studios provides customers an opportunity to leverage Dow’s expertise, broad product portfolio, and product and application testing capabilities to accelerate the development of innovative solutions. Pack Studios also connects customers with Dow’s global network of capabilities, and enables collaboration across the value chain—including resins, lamination, packaging design, converting and prototyping.
Accelerating Innovation to Market
Aiming at faster commercialization of new adhesive solutions, Dow and Nordmeccanica are working on joint projects in order to bring several new technologies to market in 2016.
“This formal development agreement reflects another milestone in Dow’s strong commitment to the adhesives industry, coupled with the strong participation in the flexible packaging market through our polyethylene and specialty resin offerings,” states Greg Bunker, Dow’s global business director for adhesives for packaging, textiles and hygiene. “It truly builds on Dow’s tradition of collaboration across the industry to accelerate innovation to market, taking advantage of Dow’s back integration in polyurethane, acrylics and polyethylene.”
“Nordmeccanica truly believes in the power of these two companies to drive innovation,” Vincenzo Cerciello, technical manager at Nordmeccanica Group, added. “Technology these days is in fact so advanced that innovation is the result of the combined efforts of multiple players. With this strong collaboration we will continue to fuel the growth of the flexible packaging industry that touches almost everyone’s life on the planet. This industry is also one of the most significant to drive sustainable packaging development, with the most efficient material usage, as well as reducing food waste along the global food supply chain.”