Henkel holds Liofol Academy Road Show 2011

Flexible packages are gaining increasingly large market shares throughout the food industry.

At the same time, film/foil laminates have to meet ever more stringent technological and food law requirements.

With its international series of Liofol Academy Road Show events, Henkel offers packaging manufacturers from Eastern Europe region the opportunity to learn about current challenges and about forward-looking solutions for the packaging industry.

Flexible packages for foods are right on trend, as they offer top functionality combined with low material costs and low weight.

Experts expect the market for flexible packages to keep growing in the future as well, especially in regions such as Eastern Europe.

In this dynamic environment, quality expectations continue to rise significantly in the future.

New sustainable packaging-solutions ensuring maximum standard in terms of food safety are required.

To help prepare optimally for the challenges ahead, Henkel is therefore staging its Liofol Academy Road Show 2011 which will take place in Moscow (April 7 to 8) and Krakow (April 12 to 13).

Specialists can then gain focused information on the technological, economic and ecological challenges facing the packaging industry.

One important focus of this year's Road Show series is the food safety of flexible packages.

Among others, the EU and the USA already have legislation in place stipulating that only food which is safe for human health may be put on the market.

This applies to the packagings as well, where contamination of the food through hazardous substances in the packaging materials - films and foils, printing inks, or adhesives - must be reliably excluded.

International food manufacturers pass on these safety requirements to their packaging suppliers and regularly test the packages for migratable constituents.

But food safety is rapidly becoming a big issue with legislators outside these classic industrial nations as well, particularly in regions where rising standards of living are generating increased use of flexible packages.

So it is especially important to choose the right raw materials when manufacturing these products.

In this context, new high-performance adhesives ensure a maximum level of product safety.