Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of Dow, introduces Pack Studios Tarragona, the 10th in a global network of Pack Studios sites helping customers address packaging sustainability by providing a testing platform to shorten development cycles for new formats and load stability innovation. Dow will inaugurate Pack Studios Tarragona with a Virtual Grand Opening on 28 October 2020.
“Designed to serve the packaging industry by accelerating innovation and supporting the industry’s sustainability goals, our Pack Studios in Tarragona is the result of several years of development,” said Felip Vidiella, EMEA senior R&D director at Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics. “Pack Studios Tarragona is equipped with state-of-the-art film production and testing capabilities for primary and secondary packaging applications in food and industrial packaging, health and hygiene materials, as well as adhesive innovation in labels.”
“We have listened closely to the packaging industry, and we are excited to inaugurate our newest Pack Studios in Tarragona to help customers realize their packaging ideas,” said Marco ten Bruggencate, EMEA Commercial vice president at Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics. “This new Pack Studios represents our strong commitment to the industry’s move to a circular economy.”
Industrial-scale film innovation and cutting-edge load stability innovation center
With a clear focus on sustainable film innovation, Pack Studios Tarragona claims to offer a broad range of lab- and industrial-scale blown and cast lines, from 5 to 9-layer extrusion, to enable production and testing of different films from industrial to barrier food packaging. As part of Dow’s approach to designing packaging for recyclability, these modern facilities help customers evaluate packaging film performance according to evolving recyclability standards while enabling the assessment of multi-layer film production with recycled contents.
According to Dow, building on Dow’s long-standing engagement with moving goods safely, the Load Stability Innovation Center at Pack Studios Tarragona supports the development of new, improved industrial film solutions designed to increase safety and reduce waste and costs during transportation of packaged goods. Unique to the EMEA region, the facilities can provide comprehensive support for industrial films’ performance testing and trialing concepts for moving goods safely and sustainably, enabled by cutting-edge technologies including an end-to-end wrapping line horizontal stability tester and tilting table.
The equipment and capabilities of Pack Studios Tarragona and the more comprehensive Pack Studios EMEA network are complemented by Dow’s long-standing relationships with leading packaging machine manufacturers, which help empower the Pack Studios team to enhance packaging design, performance, and time to market.
Pack Studios Tarragona’s film innovation capabilities are said to complement Dow’s Pack Studios EMEA offering for primary food and specialty packaging, with Pack Studios in Italy and Switzerland providing film lamination testing and packaging prototyping.
Remote trials enabled by Pack Studios Live!
Responding to current travel limitations, Dow offers customers the opportunity to trial their innovations in Pack Studios Tarragona remotely. “Through our Pack Studios Live! capabilities
We have removed the need for customers to board a plane to run trials in our testing lines,” comments Carolina Chirinos, Pack Studios Tarragona Lab manager, and Pack Studios Live! focal point. “Instead, they can join trials remotely from their location via live-streaming directly onto their computer screen.”
Join the virtual grand opening
The virtual grand opening of Pack Studios Tarragona will take place via webcast streaming on 28 October. Interested participants can register via this link.
