FLEXIBLE PACKAGING DURABILITY STUDIES, 2014 PLACE Conference

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Current industry sustainability trends directed towards minimizing packaging materials and packaging costs have led to thinner and less expensive flexible packaging materials being proposed to replace thicker and more expensive structures. Existing methods for determining package durability are at best expensive and time-consuming, and at worst counter-predictive of actual field performance. In this paper, I will share some of the results of an on-going investigation being conducted at Rollprint Packaging Products to better understand and eventually predict the durability performance of flexible packaging materials.