Episode 1 | Richard Lelièvre – Senior Vice President, Bostik Advanced Packaging
In a world of complex environmental challenges, smart adhesives enable circular packaging. As global emphasis on reducing our environmental impact grows, many brand owners and packaging producers look to use and produce more sustainable packaging. This could be achieved through easier recyclability, compostability when packaging cannot be collected, use of bio-based material, but it could be also through reusing or reducing packaging. It is however, equally important to keep the essential purpose of packaging, and not compromising on it, which is insuring food safety and reducing food waste.
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Part of Arkema, Bostik leads the adhesive solutions platform of the group. Arkema is one of the most global innovative advanced materials producer, which gives us nonetheless backward integration but also a strong innovation power and access to new materials and concepts to build the world and the packaging for tomorrow.
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Episode 2 | Virginie Delcroix – Arkema Vice President, Sustainable Development
Arkema is a global leader in specialty materials and Bostik is the adhesive segment of the Group with a high growth strategy. At Arkema, we act and innovate for people and the planet. Climate and circularity are two key challenges that we are helping to address. For the climate, we have adopted a GHG emissions trajectory respecting Paris agreement and we are well on track with our commitment to reduce our emissions by 38% from 2015 to 2030.
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Bio-sourcing and recycling are 2 key pillars. Our bio-based innovation benefits from Arkema 70 years’ experience in the castor oil technology and unique position with the flagship Rilsan high performance polymer. Arkema inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, clearly positions the Group among the CSR leaders and recognizes its ability to create sustainable value on the long term.
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Episode 3 | Wladimir Moraes - Global Market Manager, Flexible Packaging
Our direct customers are mainly the converters, the packaging makers and the film suppliers, but we work with companies in the entire value chain and in the ecosystem, from suppliers of raw materials all way down to brand owners, co-suppliers, OEMS, different associations and the recyclers.
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We make sure we anticipate regulatory evolutions and we do not compromise on food safety. A little bit about our latest innovations. We have our SF10M laminating adhesive certified by Recyclass. We are active members of relevant associations such as CEFLEX, Recyclass, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, the Association of Plastics Recyclers in USA. Our customers can profit from our understanding and synergies with key actors of sustainability revolution.
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Episode 4 | Pascal Peroni - Global Market Director, Consumer Goods & Paper
At Bostik, the Consumer Goods & Paper segment includes all adhesives technologies designed for converting and bonding of renewable fiber or wood derivatives, or even durable materials like metal and glass into a safe packaging preserving food, personal care or any fast moving consumer goods of your daily life. Our technicians and engineers have developed a unique expertise in adhesives to replace plastic, enabling packaging recycling or composting, with virgin and functionalized paper
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KIZEN®, our flagship technology, has been launched in 2017 to fulfill the requirements of the whole value chain. All ingredients have been selected according to Consumer and are regularly assessed to comply with the most demanding Food regulations, Brand Owners and Retailers requirements in the world. We are going beyond Food Safety by checking our adhesives with deep analytical tests and have even implemented extensive odor test protocols to ensure that your favorite chocolate bar will keep its original flavor. We work continuously to anticipate Consumer expectations, like trends for more bio-based content, recyclable or compostable packaging.
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Episode 5 | Eric Parois - Global Market Director, Tape,Label & Medical
Within its Global Advanced Packaging Business Unit, Bostik is a major producer of pressure sensitive adhesive for the self-adhesive label and tape industry. Bostik is one the two big global hot melt PSA producers for those two segments worldwide. Our customers are on the one hand integrated label printers and tape manufacturers, both manufacturing finished product. But we also serve labelstock laminate producers that supply the label printing industry. Bostik core technology to serve those markets is Hot Melt Pressure Sensitive Adhesive, but over the years, we have introduced new disruptive technologies such as UV or moisture curable PSA. All that as an as alternative to solvent borne PSA, with a specific target to address the needs of the high performance tapes and durable label markets.
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To address those challenges, we have built an ecosystem around us, through partnership with co-suppliers to bring turnkey solutions to customers, That ecosystem comprises original equipment manufacturers like film and printers for instance, but we have got film materials, paper materials, silicone producers, as well as recyclers. So for you customers, Bostik associated with its mother company Arkema is really a global multi-technology solventless PSA solution provider.
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Episode 6 | Benoit Pollacchi - R&D Director of Bostik Advanced Packaging
Bostik has been involved in the transformation of the packaging industry towards sustainability and fit to a circular economy. Our R&D is organized globally, with teams dedicated to all packaging markets, in 4 Global R&D Centers. We have strong connection with packaging converters, but also with brand-owners, allowing us to better understand the future market needs and then prepare the technologies for the future. We take into account the end of life of the packaging and the adhesive at the earliest stage, as a primary criterion in the product development process. We have 4 main drivers in our R&D work for sustainable packaging: Food Safety, Circular Economy, Reduce Environmental Impact, Natural Alternatives
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We will work more and more with the Artificial Intelligence. It will help us, with all the expertise we already develop, to go faster and reduce time to market. We also get the support of our mother company Arkema to develop the adhesives of tomorrow’s sustainable packaging.
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