From materials and equipment suppliers to processors, converters, packagers, and brand owners, FlexPackCon® 2023, presented by the SPE Flexible Packaging Division, spans the supply chain.  Engineers, researchers, marketers, and other flexible packaging professionals come together to learn about new developments in materials, trends, challenges, and opportunities in this double-digit growth market.

The conference will include presentations that address current challenges such as:

• Flexible packaging sustainability and circularity
• Monomaterial packaging design to enable recyclability
• New approaches to achieve barrier properties
• Evolution of mechanical and advanced recycling 
• New regulations
• Developments in additives, including processing aids
• Bio-degradable and bio-based materials
• Improvements in performance and functionality
• Food development requiring new packaging concepts
• Packaging challenges along the supply chain