Energy Magazine October 2019 | Page 60

SUSTAINABILITY
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“ A change in packaging material can pose some challenges to laser marking technology ”

— Stefan Stadler , Team Lead , Domino ’ s Laser Academy get ahead of the competition and meet regulatory requirements , there has been a surge of new organic materials gaining recognition among manufacturers . To date , few of these materials have been fully adopted industry-wide , and there ’ s a reason for this . Although plant-based materials – such as starch – present themselves as an operable and sustainable solution , when it comes to an important stage of the packaging process ( coding ) the issue stands as to whether they can be coded to the same standard as their
OCTOBER 2019