“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 & 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’ve 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 & 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 offers 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 films production with recycled contents.
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 a comprehensive support for the performance testing of industrial films 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 wider 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 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 is offering customers the opportunity to trial their innovations in Pack Studios Tarragona remotely. “Through our Pack Studios Live! capabilities we’ve 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 are welcome to register via this link.
