Food Newsletter 03/14 english
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Food Newsletter 03/14 english
Food Constantia Flexibles Food Newsletter 03 | 14 Constantia Flexibles Headquarters in Vienna OUTSTANDING The World Packing Organisation awarded the World Star Awards during the world’s largest packaging trade fair in Düsseldorf and a great number of people attended the awards ceremony. Amongst the numerous international guests were representatives of the Food Division of Constantia Flexibles along with their victorious customers. They attended for good reason, or, to put it precisely, for three good reasons: Cafétique, Die Cut 2020 and Feinschmecker Pouch. All three packaging types received a Die Cut 2020 World Star Award during the awards ceremony. Cafétique is an impressive new capsule for a series of coffee liqueurs from De Kuyper. The aluminum foil lid features high-quality graphics, and the 30 milliliter capsules come in an elaborate gift box. The barrier properties of the aluminum capsules and the lid are excellent, which is why there is no additional barrier in the packaging. The design of the box is focused entirely on factors that promote sales. Die Cut 2020 won an award because it represents a new generation of lidding that achieve the same performance and use less material - the die Feinschmecker Pouch Cafétique cut lid of the future. Die Cut 2020 consists of a thin aluminum foil and a coextrusion coated film layer developed in-house by Constantia Flexibles. This aluminum lid can be sealed on standard PP cups and is delivered with or without embossing. The Feinschmecker Pouch constitutes another premiere since it is the first peelable dry soup package. The two tabs and the easy-peel opening allows the package to be opened easily by hand. The plate also remains undamaged after opening. The design and logo of the brand remain intact. The same is true for the preparation instructions and the eat-by date. After the event, Rudolf-Peter Stieböck summed things up with the following words: “Constantia Flexibles stands for innovation, customer contact and premium products. The fact that we were honored with three World Star Awards today serves to underscore this image once again.” CONTENTS Editorial Trade Fairs and Events News Time to Invest www.cflex.com World Star Awards for Cafétique, Die Cut 2020 and the Feinschmecker Pouch. EDITORIAL TRADE FAIRS AND EVENTS WE’LL SEE EACH OTHER! As a corporate group, Constantia Flexibles employees more than 8,000 employees at 42 production location in 18 countries worldwide. Over 3,000 customers buy innovative packaging solutions from Constantia Flexibles, and they are located in a wide variety of countries. Our globally active company naturally participates in all important exhibitions, trade fairs and events worldwide in order to stay in contact with our partners and customers, in other words, with you. Close relationships with our clients is much more than simply a feature of our service, it is a core element of our brand. The innovations that Constantia Flexibles is famous for can only be created through close collaboration with our customers and based on an understanding of their needs. As a result, it is not surprising that our employees from the Food Division of Constantia Flexibles have already spent a great deal of time on the go this year. Some of the trade fairs they have attended include Food&Hotel Asia 2014, Interpack 2014, PLMA’s World of Private Label, Interzoo and Propak in Bangkok. And this is not all: three important events are still to come in the second half of the year, and we hope we’ll be able to see you there! 2014 SCHEDULE 28. – 30.10.2014 Foodtech Herning, Denmark 02. – 05.11.2014 Pack Expo International Chicago, USA 11. – 13.11.2014 Brau Beviale Nuremberg, Germany “We’ll stay in touch” – this is easy enough to say, but often the connection is lost when things return to everyday life. This is exactly what we want to prevent with this newsletter. And more: We want to intensify our contact with you by keeping you informed. The reason for is rooted in the history of our group and our Food Division. We are a key player in our industry with an outstanding reputation and excellent products precisely because we do not work abstractly and theoretically but instead hand in hand with our customers. Together, we develop packaging solutions like those that won awards from the World Packaging Organisation this year. You will find more information about all three - Cafétique, Die Cut 2020 and Feinschmecker Pouch - in this issue. Our efforts to give you a closer look at our company won’t stop at presenting new packaging designs. We will also be introducing you to members of our team. The first in this series is Dr. Achim Grefenstein, our Head of Group Research & Development. I hope that you enjoy our new newsletter, and I look forward to hearing any feedback or suggestions you may have. May you enjoy great success in the time to come as we prepare our next issue for you. Sincerely, Stefan Grote Food ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE: THE BEST PRACTICE – INNOVATION PROCESS How are innovations achieved? This is an important question that concerns the employees of Constantia Flexibles Food on a daily basis. The motivation for innovations in the field of packaging is always found in the idea of making something new or making something better. This is the goal embraced by Constantia Flexibles Food. Rudolf-Peter Stieböck sums up the essence of this approach: “We do far more than provide packaging materials. We are a competent partner in the development and sale of state-of-the-art flexible packaging of the highest quality. For this reason, product innovation is the key NEW PRODUCT IDEAS? to our success and an important part of our culture and identity.” However, Stieböck further states that it is important for the innovation process to be managed precisely. His words are implemented at Constantia Flexibles by means of the proven approach we call our Best Practice Innovation Process. Corresponding structures have been created in order to implement this process model for innovation and product development as effectively as possible in practice. Innovation steering teams accompany the innovation process from the idea to the product. At the same time, the innovation communications team handles the positioning and marketing. Of all the advantages that this model offers, one aspect is absolutely essential, according to Stieböck: “We work exclusively to meet the desires of our customers, and to do so, one especially needs two open ears and two alert eyes.” Rudolf-Peter Stieböck BEST PRACTICE – INNOVATION PROCESS Best Practice – Innovation Process Constantia Flexibles will make them reality! Constantia Flexibles offers the opportunity to three-dimensionally visualize new, innovative ideas, followed by a feasibility analysis in cooperation with the customer and culminating in actual implementation of the idea. Please contact Ms. Sabine Rudolf: [email protected] NEWS Customer-Initiated “Pull” Innovations TRENDS & LEADERS Best Practice – Innovation Process IDEA Ideas & Advertising PROJECTS Feasibility Studies SUCCESS Product Development Marketing & Success Analysis TRENDS & LEADERS „Push“ Innovations Food Sabine Rudolf INNOVATION HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE INNOVATION PROCESS NEWS The fact that the Best Practice Innovation Process has proven itself at Constantia is also demonstrated in the INNOVATION HIGHLIGHTS that appear each year and can easily be downloaded at cflex.com. Here are a couple of choice examples from the current edition: Aluminum foil 5,5 µm Thinnest aluminum foil down to 5,5! Extensive process development at Constantia´s state of the art rolling mills guarantee barrier properties as per today’ s market standard aluminum foils (6 to 7µm) with Coffee Capsule Lidding Consumer-friendly portion packaging for hot drinks in capsules. Convenient preparation, perfect aroma protection, very easy to use, sustainable and completely recyclable. potential material reduction. Latest laminates using Constantia’ s thinnest aluminum foil convinced several users in terms of run ability, functionality and product storage life. PPPeel and Die Cut 2020 Coextruded punched aluminum lids, a coextrusion coated in-house development by Constantia Flexibles. Thanks to new technology, these “must have” lids offer benefits to consumers, improve production processes, lower environmental impact and reduce costs. UV Flexoprinting for Flexpap and Banderole Perfect FFS shiny look: new printing technology for Flexpap and banderole with vivid color depth. The high gloss creates a premium look, and optimized printing provides great potential for differentiation. HELLO DR. GREFENSTEIN! Dr. Achim Grefenstein is the Head of Group Research & Development and responsible for the entire group when it comes to research and development. This is an especially key position in a corporate group that is dedicated above all to producing innovations. Achim Grefenstein knows his way around packaging and especially foils since he worked for many years in the same function for another manufacturer of films before he came to Constantia Flexibles. He travels a great deal as part of his job. For example, even though his office is actually in Vienna, he is currently often found at the Weiden location of Constantia Hueck since a competence center for films has been established there. “Firstly, this competence center should support our product managers and thus also our customers. Secondly, it should also be the proper communication partner for our suppliers”, says Grefenstein. He believes that the suppliers of Constantia Food are important since they play a critical role in the innovation development. They are also critical contacts for the nearly 80 employees for which Achim Grefens- tein is responsible and whose work he coordinates and directs. Anyone looking at his resume could be excused for thinking that Grefenstein lives entirely for plastic. He studied mechanical engineering with a concentration in plastic technology and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on the creation of plastic raw materials. However: Outside of work, the 49-year-old is also the father of two children and an enthusiastic Dr. Achim Grefenstein tennis player. Food INVESTING IN MACHINES AND INNOVATIONS The market for food with an emphasis on dairy products, sweets, processed foods and processed meats as well as snacks is in constant motion, and the resulting demand for new and flexible packaging solutions is equally constant. In order to always be one step ahead of the desires of the food industry, we have invested nearly 400 million euros in acquisitions and new machines for our customers over the past three years. These include a flexo printing machine in Colmar (USA) and in Blythewood (USA) as well as a gravure printing machine in Vecqueville (France) – just to name just a few. And: In the next issue TIME TO INVEST of our newsletter, we will present some of our innovation and investment projects to you in greater detail to help you imagine what these machines can do for you. If you have any questions about the technology we use, you can contact Dr. Thomas Eck at any time: [email protected] Dr. Dr. Thomas Eck Constantia Jeanne d’Arc S.A.S. in Vecqueville OUTLOOK Look forward to the next issue! Amongst others, the following topics will appear next time: BARRIER PACKAGING CONSTANTIA NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD NEXT GENERATION LIDDING IMPRESSUM Publisher: Constantia Flexibles International GmbH Food Division Rivergate, Handelskai 92 1200 Vienna/Austria T +43 1 888 56 40 1240 F +43 1 888 56 40 91370 [email protected] www.cflex.com