Achieve your future packaging ambitions
Visit us at West Hall, booth W-46118, Containers and Materials Pavilion (see booth location) and discuss with our experts.
Sustainable Food Packaging in 2045
We partnered with Smithers to research how regulation, material innovation and circularity will reshape food packaging through 2045. The report draws on insights from more than 230 packaging professionals worldwide — and includes findings that are directly relevant to the North American market.
What to expect at UPM Specialty Materials Booth W-46118
At our stand in the West Hall, you can explore paper-based packaging solutions developed together with our partners across the value chain. Our co-creation cases cover a range of barrier levels and real food packaging applications, from everyday dry foods to more demanding applications requiring moisture and grease resistance.
Our team will help you find the approach that fits your packaging ambitions.
Design Concept to Paper Packaging Reality
Sarah Dembroski, North American Sales Director at UPM Specialty Materials, will present together with Michelman and BOBST at the PackExpo Innovation Stage. The session covers how close collaboration across the value chain turns paper packaging ambitions into market-ready solutions, with real-world case studies showing what is possible today.
Presentation details
Tuesday, October 20 · 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Innovation Stage 1, N-4570
Speakers: Sarah Dembroski, UPM Specialty Materials / Ralph Giammarco, Michelman / Christopher Marshall, BOBST
Come and see the real-life solution at our stand — Booth W-46118, West Hall.
Sarah Dembroski
Paper-based packaging for a changing market
Packaging regulations across US states are moving fast. Extended Producer Responsibility frameworks are making non-recyclable materials more expensive to use, and that is already changing how brand owners and converters think about material choices.
At the same time, barrier coating technology has advanced to the point where paper-based solutions can now meet performance requirements across a wider range of applications than before. Recyclability, barrier performance and cost are starting to converge.
At UPM Specialty Materials, we work with converters and brand owners to develop solutions that work on existing converting lines, meet current and upcoming regulatory requirements, and perform where it counts.
See our co-creation cases at the booth
These paper-based packaging solutions were developed together with our partners across the value chain. Come see them in person at Booth W-46118.
