Eco-Friendly Packaging Solutions for a Sustainable Future!

1. Packaging that makes lifeeasier!

2. Jens Petersson – 45 years old • Wife and 3 kids • Enjoy spending time in nature, skiing and diving • Sales & Marketing Manager at a plastic packaging company called Emballator Växjöplast • Approximately 20 years of sales and 11 of those in the plastic industry.

3. A manmade material becoming a manmade disaster!

4. What happened and why?

5. Advantages • Cheapproducts • Easier to empty plastic packagingsthanmetal or glass • Lightweight • Great for transportation • Excellent for the useofchemicals or foodpackagings • Longerlifetime for food stuff • Etcetcetc

6. Environmental focus for 20 years!

7. Focus is changing – Fast!

8. Bioplastics – what do we really mean?

9. Sugar cane based plastic

10. PLA – bio degradable

11. Is it easy? • Unstable process due to variations in the material • Bad smell • Limitations of supply • Not for food • PCM – recycled material

12. Bioplastic challenges • All plastics are not available as renewablequalities • Sometimes the new material works in an existingmouldbutmostoften not • Most often the productdoesn´t look as good as in traditional materials • Sometimes the productquality is lowerthanwithtraditional materials • Most often the price is higherthanwithtraditional materials • A lotofinvestmentsneed to be donebut no onecanafford to make it immediately • The transition is as big as whenmoving from Bakelite to thermoplastics – but it does not seem so – in mostpeopleseyes plastic is plastic

13. Do we want to do all this work? Are we prepared to put money and time into this?

14. Kvalitet – Engagemang - Utveckling!