Archipelago's Powerdrop^TM is a versatile non-contact coating technology.  Powerdrop enables metered application of your chosen coating material with low waste and high transfer coefficient. Powerdrop enables waterproof, oilproof, and gasproof layers to be created on paper-based 3D-shaped containers.  The coating layer can be thin enough for the used containers to be recycled through standard recycling routes. The Powerdrop technology is robust; you can use it with sticky, glue-like coatings with low maintenance and high productivity.

Archipelago Technology makes, supplies, and supports its Powerdrop non-contact coating systems.  Powerdrop coating is the ideal choice to functionalise paper packages for storing food and drinks safely. 

With 100 years of experience, the Berndorf Band Group has become one of the world's leading manufacturers for Steel Belts, Belt Systems and worldwide Service.

As an international company with more than 500 employees worldwide, the Berndorf Band Group has offices strategically located around the globe in Asia, Europe, North and South America.

The Berndorf Band Group produces high-quality steel belts in customized executions: stainless, carbon and titanium Steel Belts as well as Belt Systems for a wide range of industries. The use of the latest technologies and the continuous development of new service equipment ensure a long service life for the extensive product portfolio. Recent developments from the Berndorf Band Group focus on highly efficient applications in the packaging industry, such as the production of water-soluble films or films and foils made from sustainable and biodegradable fiber materials such as NFC or seaweed.

THINK BIG AND PRODUCE PACKAGING AND SHIPPING SOLUTIONS - Paper is the medium of the future for light, flexible and above all sustainable packaging and shipping solutions. As a long-standing developer and manufacturer, bestpac is the best partner for standard and individual solutions in food and non-food in the large-volume sector.

Our special expertise is in the production of paper eCommerce shipping bags as an ideal and sustainable shipping solution for the easy dispatch and return of a wide range of eCommerce items, as well as innovative paper padded bags made of 100% recycled paper. We also produce high-quality and particularly strong paper carrier bags with twisted or flat handles in various sizes and qualities and paper bags for the food and non-food sector - from classic paper folding bags to window bags. Whether standard design or with eye-catching designs with your individual print, barcodes or marketing messages.

With the power of the Mayer Group, expertise, quality and performance as well as reliability are just right.

Since 1856, Cargill has been a leader in starch production. Today we have 9 production plants across Europe and a full portfolio of products for the paper and board industry. We offer native and modified, corn and wheat-based solutions for wet-end (C☆Bond™, C☆iBond™), spray and surface sizing (C☆Flex™, C☆Size™, C☆iSize™), coating (C☆Film™, C☆iFilm™, C☆iCoat™) and corrugated (C☆Gum™, C☆iGum™).

Our technical experts provide support with plant audits and pilot trials, lab testing, process improvements, equipment selection and optimization of raw material consumption.

From a sustainability perspective, we are developing solutions to replace synthetic materials in paper production while investing to reduce GHG emissions. All our plants are ISO 14001:2015 and 50001 certified, we are sourcing sustainable raw materials and scaling up regenerative agriculture programs.

For nearly 65 years the Centre Technique du Papier provides Applied research, consultancy-expertise, testing and training for those involved in the production, conversion and printing of paper and board.
Independent, innovative and at the cutting edge of technology, the CTP prepares the products and processes of tomorrow through Technological Innovation in many fields and ensures their transfer to industrial sites.

• By developing new products and processes, up to pilot scale, to give new properties to paper and cardboard,
• By training in the application of regulations and best practices,
• By developing new functionalities for printed matter and packaging, such as printed electronics applications or functional barriers, which open up new fields of product innovation.
• By bringing to market new processes such as chromatogeny or wet lamination of MFC, which open up new possibilities and new markets,
• By differentiating R&D to provide better service to customers

Founded in 2016 with R&D origins in 2008, FiberLean Technologies is a pioneer in commercializing MFC micro-fibrillated cellulose on an industrial scale.

Globally we provide solutions and technologies for customers in paper and packaging. We are also developing business in the building materials and food industries.

FiberLean Technologies applies its industrial, reliable, and scalable process to proliferate FiberLean® MFC formulations — made from natural, renewable, abundant managed forests and recycled paper waste.
The centerpiece of the FiberLean business offer is uniquely manufactured MFC modules on-site, delivering high-quality MFC, economic and sustainability gains for customers by our team of experts.
 
FiberLean Technologies is a company of the Werhahn Group in Germany. Innovations from FiberLean include the use of MFC technology to convert a brown board machine to White Top by eliminating the capital expenditures typically associated with a rebuild and lost production time. FiberLean MFC can assist with natural barrier alternatives, as well as strength gains, lightweighting, and more productive cycles of recycled fiber. With the addition of MFC, less expensive composites—primarily fiber and minerals—are proven to reduce costs and allow for a more flexible raw material supply. Substitution for starch and synthetic coating barrier materials is not only possible but proven by FiberLean.
 
With over 600 patents for FiberLean MFC and customers on three continents, our scientists and application specialists help paper, board, and other industrial manufacturers make better products and open the way for entirely new ones — while leading biomaterial sustainability advances.

GAW provides tailor made solutions and savings of precious resources in the pulp&paper industry.
 
COATING & PREPARATION
DIGITALIZATION & OPTIMIZATION
WATER TREATMENT & RECYCLING
 
With more than 70 years of experience, we are the experts for:
• preparation and production of chemicals and coating compounds
• automation and digitalization of industrial processes
• water and wastewater treatment solutions
 
Our worldwide references prove our focus on the reduction of the use of water, energy and raw materials in the customer's production process.

Innovative – Efficient – Sustainable

With its brands, innovations and technologies, Henkel holds leading market positions worldwide in the industrial and consumer businesses. The business unit Adhesive Technologies is global leader in the market of adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With Consumer Brands, the company holds leading positions in hair care and laundry & home care in many markets and categories around the world.

Henkel’s wide range of adhesive and coating solutions for e-commerce packaging offers a variety of benefits for packaging manufacturers and converters as well as e-tailers and fulfillment centers, such as:

• Hot melt and heat seal solutions for automated e-commerce packaging
• Tamper evidence of packaging through high fiber tear
• Easy opening and re-closing of packaging
• Last mile packaging damage protection through impact resistance and barrier functionality
• Improved order processing efficiency at fulfillment centers

Our ambition is to support you with our solutions and know-how so that you can always deliver your best.

KCL is the leading open access pilot and laboratory service provider in Europe
Our extensive services are targeted to support the development of circular economy. We develop and offer services that are linked to e.g.:

• plastic replacement with renewable materials
• recyclability and compostability of materials
• new products from side streams
• lighter packaging materials

The newest organizational expansion also covers expertise and production of unique bio-based ingredients like microfibrillated cellulose (mfc), cellulose nanofibers (cnf) and mfc stabilized biowaxes.
 
GloCell is a KCL Biohub partner company specialized in fiber furnish optimization
GloCell products and services helps paper and board makers to select the most suitable fibers for their products. Possible tasks to tackle might be for example

• lighter board packaging
• replacement of softwood to hardwood
• suitability of certain fibers for certain products
• finding the best possible fiber mix

We can help in all these developments and many more.

Founded in 1903, KROENERT today is a leading manufacturer of innovative, reliable coating and laminating solutions for web-like materials such as paper, foil, film, cardboard and non-woven. The product range includes customized production and laboratory lines.

We offer high-performance systems with web widths of up to 3,300 mm, coating thicknesses of more than 1 mm to a minimum of 100 nanometres and processing speeds of up to 1,600 m/min. With our machines you can finish paper, foils (aluminium, copper, etc.) and films as well as their composites, regardless of whether the coating compounds are applied in aqueous, solvent-based or 100% solid-state form. As coating compounds lacquers, adhesives, silicones, PVdC, waxes, resins, paraffins, hot melts, acrylates (also UV-curing) and polyurethanes, primers, polymers and pigments are processed.

In our Technology Centre, we develop innovative solutions together with our customers, we test and optimise - until we achieve the perfect result.

Kuraray is a global specialty chemical company with some 12 000 employees and an annual sales of about EUR 5.5 billion. Kuraray is a leading barrier company offering high-performance barrier solutions for wet coating, extrusion coating or as films. From raw materials to ready-to-use films: our products help you find innovative packaging concepts that can meet your functionality requirements and greatly increase the sustainability of your packaging. All Kuraray products have their own specific benefits – for example, biodegradability, water-solubility, recyclability, repulpability or compostability.

Find out more about our product solutions KURARAY POVAL™; EXCEVAL™, PLANTIC™, EVAL™and MonoSol on www.packaging.kuraray.eu.

Metsä Board is a leading European producer of premium paperboards including folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners. Our lightweight paperboards based on pure fresh fibres are developed as the perfect fit for consumer goods, retail-ready and food service packaging. Our focus is on creating even lighter and better paperboard solutions for brands of the future. Together with our customers we innovate solutions that are not only better for consumers but are better for the world as well.

For nearly 40 years, Fisher International, a ResourceWise company, has been a leading provider of business intelligence for the global pulp and paper industry. As a ResourceWise company, Fisher helps businesses drive better performance by making informed decisions precisely, quickly, broadly, and efficiently.

We combine deep data with powerful analytics, expert consulting, and training to uncover smarter solutions that support our customers’ ongoing operations and long-term goals. We help you answer your big, capital-intensive questions, surface insights, foster actionable, replicable planning across all levels of your organization, and reveal a path for sustainable growth.

Our custom data and deep industry expertise allow us to help you discover opportunities and mitigate vulnerabilities. When you partner with Fisher, you'll not only appreciate the value in leveraging business intelligence to inform decisions—you'll be inspired by it.

Segers & Balcaen is a fully integrated, medium-sized family business located in Belgium. The company was founded in 1954 and has 2 production sites. Being a leading expert in identifying sustainable opportunities, we commit to developing and producing responsible film for food, beverage, industrial applications and E-commerce bags.
 
Fully committed to a circular approach, Segers & Balcaen has achieved substantial results in the following areas: 

• reduction of film thickness
• re-use of internal production waste (extensive experience in using regranulated film on an industrial basis for our bag department)
• maximum reduction of our overall production waste
• Expanded Gamut Printing: Less plates, less solvent, less setup-time, less energy, less down-time

Sustainable Achievements 

• With great pleasure we announce our capability to produce shrink film with up to 100% recycled material. This shrink film – with up to 100% recycled material – has the same mechanical properties than film made from virgin material. It is available printed (up to 8 colours) and unprinted. Additional possibility in certain applications to downgauge the material thickness by 30%.
• Segers & Balcaen has heavily invested in several development projects to manufacture laminates in 100% mono-material, thus making them fully recyclable. The overall aim is to achieve greater sustainability without compromising product protection, seal integrity and packaging speed.
• Our paperlike film was developed as an alternative for PE coated paper and laminates of paper with aluminium. Made entirely from PE (therefore a mono-material and fully recyclable), our paperlike film combines excellent barrier properties with a paper look & feel.
• Investment in new SOMA-machine for Expanded Gamut Printing: Less plates, less solvent, less setup-time, less energy, less down-time

Siegwerk is one of the leading global manufacturers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels. Based on 200 years of expertise, we provide customized solutions for all types of packaging needs - from functional and eye-catching to safe and sustainable. As a sixth-generation family business, we have long been aware of our responsibility for future generations. Under the motto “rethINK packaging”, we are therefore actively driving the transformation to a circular economy by developing eco-friendly solutions that enable packaging circularity. Here, 30+ country organizations and ~5,000 employees worldwide ensure consistent high-quality products and customized support around the world. 

TECHPAP markets instruments and equipment developed by CTP and Grenoble INP PAGORA (International School of Paper) to whom it is closely affiliated.
TECHPAP provides the pulp and paper industry with the most advanced equipment for Quality Monitoring and Process optimisation : On Line Sensors and Laboratory devices, as well as optimisation  Softwares and tailormade applications to fit as close as possible to our customer’s needs. Amongst its most popular devices are:
MorFi Neo, a powerful, low cost & compact solution for pulp morphology measurements
2D Lab for accurate laboratory measurement of paper formation
Simpalab,  laboratory dirt counter software
Simpatic OnLine, perfect tool for On Line particle detection
3DStick Automated stickies measurement : Determination and classification of the 3D morphology of screened particles.
TECHPAP is represented worldwide through a team of Sales Engineers and a network of over 30 representatives.

With a strong customer focus and a business DNA built on innovation and reliability, UMV Coating Systems has become the global technology leader in the development and supply of surface -treatment technology to the global coated paper, board and converting industries. Our range of products and services includes all of the equipment and know-how necessary for complete coating solutions.
 

Renewable biomass can replace fossil-based materials in packaging, clothes, electronics and biofuels. By increasing the reuse and recycling of bio-based products we can ensure the long-term storage of carbon and substitute more energy-intensive materials.

VTT is a non-profit research company developing solutions especially for natural resources and environment. VTT has strong expertise in R&D partnerships that result in sustainable products, processes and business models for a circular bioeconomy based on forests. We can help companies create high-value biomaterial products with sustainable life cycles, develop new end-of-life recycling solutions as well as energy-efficient, low-carbon production processes and much more.

VTT is coordinating the EU-INN-PRESSEME project that focuses on providing pilot services for developing applications based on nano-enabled biomaterials. INN-PRESSME TEST BED services function as an ecosystem, developing sustainable and recyclable plant-based biomaterials for packaging, transport, energy & consumer goods.