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PACKAGING TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS
Packaging trends and innovations
present day. ful vases, sterile medicine phials
INNOVATION, CREATIVITY and artistically designed perfume THE AUTHOR
AND EFFICIENCY flacons.
The German glass industry The German glass container Claudia Siegele
produces thousands of differ- industry also uses a large propor-
ent containers for the cosmet- tion of recycled glass and has a Born in Stettfeld (Baden) in 1963,
ics industry, the pharmaceuti- high level of energy efficiency in Claudia Siegele studied architecture
cal industry and numerous other its manufacturing processes, so at the University of Applied Sciences
applications. Moreover, many that it clearly meets the need for in Karlsruhe from 1988 to 1994. From
1994 to 2004 she was editor for the
container glass manufacturers sustainability. At the same time German construction industry magazi-
are global players, and are pre- glass businesses respond flexibly ne db deutsche bauzeitung; and has
sent not only in Germany, but to new trends and requirements. run her own architectural studio in
also in other European countries Today’s demands on the pro- Ubstadt-Weiher since 2000. In 2004,
and in the United States, making duction and shape of container TIF GPVOEFE UIF FEJUPSJBM PGmDF GSFJ
a wide range of glass jars, colour- glass are focusing increasingly on publizistik in Stuttgart together with
individuality and specific designs. Dr. Ursula Baus and Christian Holl.
Production quantities are small- As a technical author, she has written
er, as is the weight of each bottle, books on architecture, civil engineer-
JOH BOE FOFSHZ FGmDJFOU DPOTUSVDUJPO
yet the containers are of a high She is also a technical journalist and
quality while also meeting climate editor for a range of printed and on-
change targets. Another element line publications, including Gebäude-
that has substantially impacted Energieberater, greenbuilding and
manufacturing processes is the Marlowes.
responsible use of resources
through recycling. Paradoxically,
the container glass industry has
been increasingly impacted by So the container glass indus-
competition from PET bottles, try is vehemently working on
forcing it to find solutions which ways to modify its products. It
are now also important to the does so by adding the largest
end customer. Furthermore, possible proportion of recycled
this focus on the hygienic and glass, achieving smart savings in
inert qualities of glass has been weight, setting up sophisticated
accompanied by an increasing supply chains and creating stylish
awareness of the environmen- designs, all aimed at giving it a
tal dimension, with images of contemporary image.
gigantic swathes of plastic waste The success of these endeav-
in the world’s oceans, causing ours can be seen, for instance,
painful deaths to fish and birds. in the 2017 German Packaging
Award, which went to Wiegand-
Glas for a new youthful design of
the traditional Bocksbeutel wine
The beer bottle company bottle used for Franconian wine –
Owens-Illinois (O-I) is a highlight created in a joint pro-
the world’s first glass ject between the designer Peter
packaging manufacturer to Schmidt and the Franconian
receive gold certification for
material health under the Winegrowers’ Association. The
®
Cradle-to-Cradle standard. company is equally innovative
Their design of the MyPour in its contemporary and effi-
bottle, aimed at craft and cient production process, with its
gourmet brewers, has an energy recovery from hot waste
asymmetrical bottleneck, gas which allows so-called pre-
so that the pourer can heating technology and therefore
creatively influence the way saves 10 to 15 per cent in primary
the beer runs into the glass energy. The melting temperature
Photo: Owens Illinois
required for processing can be
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