Packaging will continue to be indispensable in the future

Packaging is of great importance in the online society. It bundles goods together, secures them during transport and protects them from environmental influences.

Packaging will continue to be indispensable in the future
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06.05.2022
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Packaging will continue to be indispensable in the future. On the other hand, packaging waste represents one of the biggest environmental problems of our time. In 2019, 19 million tonnes of packaging waste were collected in Germany. Paper and cardboard are well suited for recycling. However, the production of recycled material always requires fresh raw materials. Innovative solutions are therefore in demand and this opens up the best job opportunities in the packaging industry for creative minds.

Innovative technologies for more success

If you are interested in jobs in a certain occupational group, you will find thousands of job offers on Germany's best-known and largest job portal stellenanzeigen.de. Stellenanzeigen.de is a full-service provider for all aspects of job advertising and, in addition to 10,000 jobs throughout Germany and in all occupational groups, also offers the opportunity to make a career with your own job board. The company is an expert in innovative job board technologies and is available to its customers as a strategist with vision. Modular software products, smart analysis tools and a high degree of automation form the basis for a user-friendly career platform. Add-on solutions provide more reach, from which advertisers profit sustainably.

A high-tech world of work

Sector-specific job boards are currently experiencing a real boom. The reason for this is the increasing specialisation in most professions. It is no longer the all-rounder who is in demand, but the specialist for a specific field. The paper and packaging industry is one of the high-tech work environments with the best career opportunities. Graduates of a degree programme with a focus on paper, packaging or plastics technology are highly sought after.

Demand on environmentally friendly packagings
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Environmentally friendly packaging is in demand

The Master's programme in Packaging Technology, for example, is particularly important with regard to environmental protection. The course deals with the analysis of materials and processes in order to develop environmentally friendly packaging. A profession with a future, because already today 76 percent of online shoppers pay attention to environmentally friendly packaging. And this percentage will increase in the coming years. In the future, the success of a company will depend on the sustainability of its packaging.

Along with wood and glass, paper and cardboard are still among the most important, environmentally friendly packaging materials. Wood, which is needed for the production of paper and cardboard, is a renewable raw material that can be easily recycled and thus reused. However, if you value environmentally friendly packaging, you should not only look at the package itself, but also at the adhesive tape and filling material. In a box without fragile products, no filling material is needed if the packaging is not larger than the product itself. If filling material is required, it should also be made of paper or cardboard. And as an alternative to plastic tape, environmentally friendly paper tape has long been available.

Milk, mushrooms and sugar cane instead of petroleum as raw materials

In the meantime, research is being conducted into new packaging with numerous materials, which are primarily intended to replace plastic films. In future, it should also be possible to store and transport sensitive goods in environmentally friendly packaging. Instead of shrink-wrapping them in plastic films, which increase the amount of waste after use, research is being done on alternative, biodegradable raw materials. In the USA, attempts are currently being made to produce packaging film from milk. And instead of crude oil, mushrooms and sugar cane are to be used for films in the future. Innovative processes thus offer a broad field for interdisciplinary researchers.

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