Dow's PacXpert Flexible Packaging Technology wins award

During the PlastIndia 2015 held in Gujarat , India,  Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics  received the Best Innovative Finished Product/Process (International)  award  at  the  7 th   Edition of the Plasticon Awards competition. Dow won this award for its technologically advanced solution - PacXpert  Flexible Packaging Technology that was one of many innovative  packaging  solutions  by  Dow  featured  at PlastIndia 2015.

 

Plastindia Foundation instituted the ‘Plasticon Awards’ to facilitate excellence and innovation in the field of Plastics.  The Plasticon Awards is the most prestigious award  competition for India’s plastics industry, practicing professionals and students. The Awards are sponsored by industry stalwarts and cover a wide range of activity including  industry,  academic,  research,  entrepreneurship,  etc.  The  winners  for  each category are selected by an independent panel of jurists, who again, are achievers and pioneers in their respective fields.  

 

 

The flexible packaging market in India has  grown  in  recent  years to become Asia’s third largest  which was valued at US$7.2 billion in 2013. The rising affluence and changing lifestyles of India’s middle class will  continue  to  drive  a  stronger  demand  for  packaging  and  plastics  solutions  that  provide  increased convenience and functionality. 

 

India is an important geography to Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics as the business continues to develop differentiated and game-changing innovations that meet the evolving needs of Dow’s customers as well as support customer growth with the company’s Sadara joint venture project that will bring new capacity of high performing Dow products to the Asia Pacific region later this year.   

 

PacXpert Flexible Packaging Technology offers several advantages along the entire supply chain. The innovation  is  sustainable  and  optimizes  environmental  efficiencies.  It  requires  fewer  raw  materials  per package in the manufacturing process. Empty containers can be compacted into flat packages to occupy smaller  receptacle  spaces  during  transportation.  The  technology  thus  has  great  potential  in  reducing carbon  emissions  by  providing  greater  transportation  efficiency.  Packages  also  have  a  smaller  post-consumption  volume,  taking  up  smaller  landfill  space  for  disposal  and  hence  lowering  waste  removal costs.