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Showing the different
faces of materials
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Photo: Fotograf Johan Olsson
Showing the different faces of materials
Working with demonstrators is an
excellent way to visualise research
findings and thus also to show the
possibilities. During the Scanpack fair
in Gothenburg on 23-26 October,
visitors to Innventia’s stand had the
opportunity to see examples of new
materials and functions in the form
of five exciting objects, each with its
own individual expressions. Taking
a closer look at these also revealed
the fact that each demonstrator
could in turn show several different
sides of a material.
Under Scanpackmässan visade
Innventia fem objekt med ett gemensamt
tema: ett materials olika ansikten. Temat
kommer sig av de skilda egenskaper som
kan uppträda hos ett material beroende
på hur det är framställt eller bearbetat.
Det kan vara paradoxala element vid sidan
om varandra eller något som går från ett
tillstånd till ett annat, som exempelvis från
mjuk till hård, från opakt till transparent
eller från glansigt till matt. Känslan av ett
material bidrar starkt till ett materials identitet och potentiella användningsområden.
I testet ”Ser du vad du känner?” fick besökarna bedöma de nya materialen enbart
genom att känna på dem.
“Research findings are mostly about figures,” says Marie-Claude Béland, who
led the demonstrator project. “If you can
translate these figures into something
tangible, it’s easier to see the possibilities and to grasp what the research is all
about. Working with demonstrators is
therefore an excellent way to visualise
research findings. It’s also an ideal way
to showcase our various competencies
when it comes to materials research and
packaging development.”
Designer Anna Glansén was contacted to create demonstrators with exciting
shapes that also convey the properties
of the material in question. She worked
together with Innventia’s researchers
Hjalmar Granberg and Fredrik Berthold
to devise five forms of packaging with a
common theme: the different faces of
a material. This theme stems from the
different properties that a material can
exhibit depending on how it is produced
or processed. This could involve paradoxical elements alongside each other,
or something that goes from one state to
another, such as from soft to hard, from
opaque to transparent, or from glossy to
matt. Anna chose to use classic shapes
such as the dome, the pyramid, the pentagon, the cone and the cube, thereby
giving the various faces of the materials
leading roles. contact:
marieclaude.beland@innventia.com
The feel of a material is important in terms of its
identity and potential applications. Many people
tried the “Do you see what you feel?” test, a
specially devised test based on evaluating the
new materials purely by feeling them.
Smedpack designs safety
New composites make music and buses more sustainable
Continued tissue research with focus on performance
New method reduces cosmetic damages
Visitors at Scanpack were able to take their
demonstrator – packaging that converts from a
cube into a star using a built-in “hinge” – home
with them.
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Mikael Ankerfors showing the bus seat produced
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Smedpack designs safety
The Smedpack project was
launched on 17 September. With
a consortium consisting of 23
partners, making it the largest group
within VINNOVA’s ChallengeDriven Innovation programme
right now, the conference room
“Sundbladsalen” at Innventia was
quickly filled to its capacity. It was
clear that there is significant interest
in safety within the pharmaceutical
chain.
“Smedpack is unique in the way the
project includes players throughout the
entire value chain,” explains project
manager Erik Blohm from Innventia.
“We have representatives from companies of all sizes, and from education,
R&D, authorities, industry organisations, and so on. Opinions from consumers will also be included for the first
time.”
Together with his colleagues MarieClaude Béland and Hjalmar Granberg,
Erik has worked actively to put together the consortium and to select the
right partners for the right parts. With
Innventia’s experience of coordinating
large-scale EU projects, they understand
the importance of this.
“An overall perspective is essential in
order to tackle the challenge of making
the value chain safe,” says Marie-Claude.
“The broader the cooperation, the better
things are for the consumer. So we’re
delighted to have partners on board
who are completely independent of the
value chain, such as the membership
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organisation Vetenskap & Allmänhet,
DS Innovation and the design agency
No Picnic.”
She goes on to explain that one secondary effect of the project is new cooperation between partners who had never
worked together previously. Sixteen of
the 22 partners are new to Innventia.
So what does creating a safe value
chain for pharmaceutical packaging
involve? How can Smedpack contribute towards consumer confidence?
According to Erik, Marie-Claude and
Hjalmar, it’s not a matter of finding
brand new safety solutions. Instead, the
project will be looking at new combinations of existing solutions. In other
words, small adjustments in the value
chain that can bring big benefits.
“We’re looking at identifying an
intuitive solution that doesn’t require a
manual,” explains Hjalmar. “In concrete
terms, the project is all about achieving
simple designs to ensure that tamper
evidence and ID codes work together
from production, logistics and consumer
perspectives. One important question
is how we can enable the consumer to
play an active part in achieving a safe
value chain. We see the end-consumer
as part of the solution. After all, it’s the
consumer who takes the medicine and
might wonder whether it’s genuine. So
the packaging solution within the safe
value chain should provide clues to give
the consumer a well-founded sense of
security.”
Innventia has in-depth expertise and
experience within aspects of packaging technology such as security printing, safety features, materials science,
sustainability and perception/usability.
As well as acting as project coordinator, Innventia is also responsible for the
work relating to packaging and takes a
steering role in issues of sustainability
and green growth. Investments should
only be made in sustainable solutions.
Innventia has the expertise and the tools
needed to evaluate this.
“As an independent integrator, we’re
not tied to a single solution,” concludes
Marie-Claude. “Instead, we can allow
the industry to come up with the best
solution. Smedpack is an excellent
example of the triple helix model, with
society, industry and academia working
together proactively to support the innovation process.” In the wake of climate change, the
demand for sustainable and lightweight materials that can replace
oil-based products has increased.
The combination of bioplastics and
nanotechnology is an approach that
meets the technical demands of
replacing oil-based materials with
sustainable and renewable ones. In
June 2012, the EU-funded project
SustainComp held its final open
conference reporting on the results
achieved throughout this four-year
project, which was concluded in
August 2012.
contact: erik.blohm@innventia.com
Med ett stort konsortium
bestående av aktörer från företag, utbildningsväsende, FoU, myndigheter, branschorganisationer osv, ska projektet Smedpack
arbeta för att säkra värdekedjan för läkemedelsförpackningar. Helhetsperspektiv är en
förutsättning för att anta utmaningen och
för första gången kommer även synpunkter
från konsumenter att inkluderas i studierna.
Arbetet går ut på att finna nya kombinationer av existerande säkerhetslösningar,
dvs mindre justeringar i kedjan som kan ge
stora vinster, inte minst i form av ledtrådar
som ger konsumenten välgrundad trygghet. Konkret handlar projektet om att få
enkel design av säkerhetsförslutningar och
identifieringskoder att fungera tillsammans
ifrån perspektiven: produktion, logistik och
konsument. Innventia koordinerar projektet och ansvarar för arbetet som handlar
om förpackningen och är även drivande
i frågor kring hållbarhet och grön tillväxt.
Current awareness from the Innventia Group
A number of demonstrators of material concepts
were showcased at the final open conference in
the SustainComp project.
Current awareness from the Innventia Group
– a succes story from the SustainComp project
The SustainComp project aimed to
develop new, advanced, sustainable composite materials. The targeted products
included nanoreinforced foams used for
cushioning in packaging and for display panels, nanostructured composites,
aerogels, films and membranes. A number of demonstrators of material concepts were showcased at the conference.
For two of these cases, further development is already underway.
“We are talking about some very
interesting cases where nanocellulose,
together with wood fibres, is used to
reinforce bioplastics, which are then
used for the production of violin fingerboards or the bodywork of bus seats,”
says Mikael Ankerfors, the coordinator
of SustainComp.
In the case of the bus seats, the
new sustainable material has the same
mechanical properties but is 30% lighter
than the current materials. The reduction in weight is of key importance for
automotive applications, where weight is
one of the most important factors in fuel
consumption.
Violin fingerboards are currently produced from rare tone woods, such as
rosewood and ebony, which are becoming scarce. The new material has properties that are not found in tone wood. It
is impervious to moisture and temperature, and is still acoustically excellent.
Another major advantage, besides being
produced from a renewable resource,
is that it can be produced by injection moulding. Normally, 70-90% of the
wood is carved away and becomes waste.
With the new method, nothing would
be wasted.
The bus seat and the violin fingerboard are both made from a sustainable material produced using Wet
Web Technology, a method created by
the SustainComp industrial partner
Elastopoli Oy. The company already
supplies the music industry with sustainable new composites, and expects
the new process to be upscaled to industrial level within the next three years.
“The method is suitable for close proximity production, which means that the
fibre components can be acquired from
nearby sources,” says Markku Nikkilä,
Elastopoli. “This increases the sustainability of the production immensely by
cutting logistics costs.”
According to Markku, Wet Web
Technology can also be used for compression moulding of bus seats. If a nanocellulose reinforced composite could
be used instead of today’s glass fibre
material, weight savings in components
– resulting in fuel savings in vehicles –
would be made.
At Innventia, which has coordinated
SustainComp, research and development has so far been focused on the
actual process – being able to produce
nanocellulose as energy-efficiently as
possible – and these efforts have, for
example, led to the establishment of a
pilot production facility. Now, a great
deal of the ongoing activities relate to
practical applications such as applying
nanocellulose in papermaking.
“There is a driving force in the pulp
and paper industry to develop new materials in order to reach new markets,”
concludes Mikael. “Cellulose-reinforced
composite materials are therefore of
great interest to the industry.” contact:
mikael.ankerfors@innventia.com
I juni höll SustainComp sin slutkonferens. Resultaten från det EU-finansierade
projektet, som syftade till att utveckla nya,
avancerade biokompositmaterial kunde
även studeras genom en utställning av
demonstratorer visandes olika materialkoncept. I två av fallen – säten för bussar
i stadstrafik och greppbräden för fioler
– pågår redan vidareutveckling hos företaget Elastopoli Oy. Deras nya komposit av
bioplast förstärkt med nanocellulosa och
träfibrer har samma mekaniska egenskaper men är 30% lättare än det material
som idag används i bussäten. När det gäller greppbräden görs de idag av sällsynt
rosenträ och ebenholts och vanligtvis snidas 70-90% bort. Med den nya metoden,
skulle ingenting till spillo. På Innventia, som
koordinerat SustainComp, fortsätter FoU
med inriktning på tillämpningar av nanocellulosa vid t.ex. papperstillverkning.
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New method reduces
cosmetic damages
Continued tissue
research with focus
on performance
Tissue research at Innventia will
focus more closely on quality and
performance during the next cluster,
which begins in 2013. Together
with a continued focus on energy
and production efficiency, the new
research cluster will help to provide
companies in the tissue value chain
with a strong knowledge base on
which to build the high performance
tissue products that consumers are
demanding today.
At Innventia, much of the research is
based on a combination of advanced laboratory methods, pilot trials and tests by
consumer panels. This provides a road to
better understanding of the relationships
between basic tissue properties and the
perception of qualities such as smoothness and bulk softness.
“Innventia has a very powerful tool in
the combination of cutting-edge paper
technology and a perception laboratory
with experienced staff and well-established methods,” says Mattias Drotz,
leader of the Tissue Cluster at Innventia.
The idea that image analysis and other
theoretical methods must be linked to
human perception of paper qualities
has for decades been a cornerstone of
the way Innventia carries out research.
Within the Human-Product Interaction
(HPI) Laboratory, new methods and
tools are being developed which will
help tissue research link perception to
choices made in fibre quality and process
parameters.
The influence on fibre morphology
and energy efficiency
Aron Tysén is a PhD student at Innventia and
Karlstad University.
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Innventia is also working to incorporate knowledge from different sources into the continuing work on the
correlation between fibre morphology,
formation and energy efficiency. One
part of this research will be carried
out as a postgraduate research project
in cooperation between Innventia and
Karlstad University, KAU. PhD student
Aron Tysén will target the effect of
the sheet non-uniformity on dewatering and drying efficiency, by measuring
the influence of fibre morphology, process chemistry and operating conditions.
This cooperation combines Innventia’s
resources, such as the high pressure
difference laboratory former, the dry-
Cosmetic damage to packaging may
not be thought to be important if
the damage is insignificant to the use
of the packaged product, but when
a consumer is faced with a scratched
package and an undamaged
alternative, it’s easy to guess which
one will be left on the shelf. This
results in a great deal of waste. In
certain countries, such as Japan,
the appearance of the packaging is
so important that entire deliveries
may be returned if a single package
is damaged. Finding out what
causes scratches and other forms
of abrasion damage has therefore
become increasingly relevant.
ing simulator and the FEX pilot paper
machine, with tools such as the dynamic
suction box at KAU and the pilot tissue
paper machine at Metso R&D centre,
also in Karlstad.
“This will give Innventia and its cluster members further understanding of
how basic parameters can be varied to
optimize both process efficiency and
product quality,” says Mattias Drotz.
“Variations in grammage have a more
pronounced effect on tissue sheets and
tissue process efficiency than on most
other paper products, and the goal for
Innventia and the Tissue Cluster is to
give our members better tools for making the right decisions.” contact: mattias.drotz@innventia.com
När nästa Tissuekluster startar
i april 2013 kommer större fokus att läggas på kvalitet och prestanda, vid sidan om
energi-och produktionseffektivitet. Mycket
av forskningen bygger på en kombination
av avancerade laboratoriemetoder, pilotförsök och tester med konsumentpaneler
för att få bättre förståelse av sambanden
mellan grundläggande materialegenskaper
och upplevda egenskaper som bulk och
mjukhet.
En del av forskningen kommer att
genomföras som ett doktorandprojekt i
samarbete mellan Innventia och Karlstads
universitet, KAU. Aron Tysén ska studera
effekterna av olikformighet i arket på effektiviteten i avvattning och torkning genom
att mäta påverkan av fibermorfologi, processkemi och driftsförhållanden.
Current awareness from the Innventia Group
“Companies invest considerable resources in ensuring that their products look
attractive in-store,” explains Thomas
Trost, who together with Peter Rättö
is heading up the TABRE (New techniques for abrasion resistance of printed
packaging surfaces) project at Innventia.
“Even minor defects such as scratches
on secondary packaging can harm the
brand, since many forms of shipping
packaging are used increasingly often for
in-store display purposes.”
Here, companies throughout the
entire value chain are working together
to develop methods that can predict
what will happen to the surface when
the packaging is exposed to stresses during transportation. The work involves
drawing up standardised terminology
and a form of damage atlas. It is also
hoped that methods can be devised in
the long term that are sufficiently usable
for quality assurance of a surface.
“There are methods for measuring
hardness, for example, but how hard or
smooth does a surface need to be?” asks
Peter. “There’s an enormous challenge if
something has been printed in Eastern
Europe, then shipped to Asia, packaged
and distributed globally. It’s a matter of
finding out what will last.”
Researchers are faced with a complex picture. Everything is interrelated,
from the appearance of the base paper/
substrate, with its fibre function and
surface properties, to the composition
of the printing ink’s pigment particles,
to transportation conditions. One condition for addressing this complexity is
the combination of existing methods
Current awareness from the Innventia Group
for evaluating printability and the testing centre at Kista where transportation
conditions can be simulated using techniques such as vibration testing.
“We have now succeeded in establishing links between the surface structure and how scratching occurs during
transportation,” says Peter. “Being able
to make the connection this far back is
thought to be fairly unique.”
The project ends next summer, but
Thomas hopes there will be a continuation.
“One interesting line of inquiry would
be to study how raised features on
packaging such as Braille printing affect
conditions – and are affected themselves
– during transportation. This is one of
the possible cases to look at in any continuation of the project.” contact: thomas.trost@innventia.com
Vibration testing at Innventia’s laboratory in Kista.
I projektet TABRE (New techniques for abrasion resistance of printed
packaging surfaces) utvecklas metoder som
kan förutsäga vad som kan ske med ytan
när förpackningen utsätts för påfrestningar
under transporten. Det är viktigt eftersom
många transportförpackningar allt oftare
används som display i butiken och även
små defekter som repor i en sekundärförpackning skulle skada varumärket. Arbetet
handlar om få en enhetlig terminologi och
en form av skadeatlas.
Det är en komplex frågebild forskarna
har att jobba med då många parametrar
ska tas hänsyn till. En förutsättning för
studierna är kombinationen av befintliga
metoder för tryckbarhetsutvärdering och
anläggningen i Kista där man kan simulera vad som händer under transport med
exempelvis vibrationsprovning.
Profile
Peter
Rättö
On 11 May, Innventia gained another
docent: Peter Rättö, who – after his
teaching test, a lecture on the impact
of calendering on surface properties and
printability – received his docentship
at the Royal Institute of Technology in
materials chemistry of coating layers
(fibre technology). Naturally, his docentship will mean a greater involvement
in scientific contexts. But Peter was
already well-known, not least at Karlstad
University, where he arrived as a newly
qualified doctor in calendering from
Innventia in 2001. During his six years
in Karlstad – the first four of which were
spent working as a Assistant Professor,
after which he was appointed Senior
Lecturer in surface treatment – much of
his work revolved around regional industry and collaboration with board and
packaging manufacturers. In the long
term, he now hopes to increase his work
with the Royal Institute of Technology.
In 2007, Peter returned to Innventia.
Since then, he has worked extensively
with coating, printability, runnability and mechanical properties. Just like
many other researchers, he looks forward to each new challenge:
“Somewhere lies the answer. By looking at the appearance of a particle, you
can see what will happen later on in the
process, even though there’s a lengthy
stage in between. To take an example
from the current project (see the article
on this page), the way in which the pigment particles in the coating layer can
cause wear during transportation.”
Complex problems and difficulties
tend to be a source of motivation rather
than limitation. Peter sees each challenge as an opportunity to create new
knowledge.
Perhaps it is these challenges that will
continue to drive him in the future. He
enjoys going to water parks with his son,
as well as pottering around with electronics, working out and cooking. His desserts
are particularly popular at home! contact:
peter.ratto@innventia.com
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Peter Axegård gave a presentation on “Lignin
based carbon fibres – recent progress”.
Niklas Berglin presented “Co-production of
renewable polymers and ethanol from eucalyptus-based pulp mills”.
Per Tomani presented “Lignin removal from
different black liquors”.
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Accredited tests
guarantee quality
and traceability
NWBC 2012 in Helsinki
Innventia showcases visions with great potential
Promising results with carbon fibre,
a major project in collaboration with
Brazil, and the latest LignoBoost
development: three contributions
from Innventia at the Nordic Wood
Biorefinery Conference 2012 in
Helsinki. All three are projects with
great potential for production on an
industrial scale.
Research into the production of carbon
fibre from black liquor lignin has only
been carried out for a short time at
Innventia, but it has demonstrated good
technical possibilities for the large-scale
production of lignin from black liquor.
Carbon fibre has great potential as a construction material – it is light and strong,
and is already used in high value fields
such as space travel, the automotive
industry and sports equipment.
“Both the value chains (lignin from
pulp mill and the production of carbon
fibres from other sources) and many of
the processes already exist,” noted Peter
Axegård at the conference. “All that
remains now is to build the final link
between these value chains.”
Major joint venture between Brazil
and Sweden
POLYNOL is a recently launched project in collaboration with businesses and
research centres in Sweden and Brazil.
The aim is to create effective processes,
value chains and logistics for lignin and
cellulose.
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“Lignin could even become a staple
product,” suggested Niklas Berglin in
his address at NWBC 2012. “Lignin has
many different applications, and produces the biggest volume in the pulp mill.”
The project is also examining the possibility of using ethanol as a raw material
for the production of bioplastic formulations, which would give ethanol a new
value and would also mean that it could
be used in the same value chain as paper
and pulp, particularly within the field
of packaging. By also using agricultural
residues for ethanol production, the production of ethanol can be increased.
“Greater use of forest-based ethanol,
both as a raw material in the paper and
chemical industry and as a fuel, would
be highly desirable,” adds Niklas. “The
EU is already heading towards limiting
the use of agricultural crops for this type
of production.”
In his lecture, Per Tomani – one of the
researchers behind LignoBoost – spoke
about the ongoing research to develop
the process further.
“Our Swedish demonstration facility
has currently produced lignin continuously for a long period of time, and this
has improved our knowledge of the
process. At the same time, we have also
developed useful tools for dealing with
the differences between lignin from different black liquors.” contact: peter.axegard@innventia.com,
niklas.berglin@innventia.com and
per.tomani@innventia.com
The Nordic Wood Biorefinery
Conference (NWBC), is the leading
meeting forum for wood biorefinery
professionals. NWBC gathers expert
speakers from the chemical, energy,
pulp and paper industry as well as
recognized representatives from the
global research community.
NWBC is jointly organised by Innventia
and VTT. The next event – the 5th
Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference
(NWBC 2014) – will be held in
Stockholm, 25-27 March, 2014.
contact:
birgit.backlund@innventia.com
Vid NWBC 2012 i Helsingfors
presenterade Innventia tre projekt med
hög potential för produktion i industriskala.
Forskningen kring produktion av kolfiber
från svartlutslignin har bara pågått en kort
tid, men den har visat på goda tekniska
möjligheter. Mycket av processerna för värdekedjorna kolfiber och lignin finns redan.
POLYNOL är ett nystartat projekt i
samarbete med både företag och forskningscentra i Sverige och Brasilien. Målet är
att skapa effektiva processer, värdekedjor
och logistik för både lignin och cellulosa.
I projektet studeras även möjligheten att
använda etanol som råvara för produktion
av bioplaster.
Per Tomani, en av forskarna bakom
LignoBoost, berättade i sitt föredrag om
den pågående forskningen för att utveckla
processen vidare.
Current awareness from the Innventia Group
Accreditation is a quality mark.
Using an accredited laboratory
ensures that everything is traceable
and that analyses and testing are
carried out by an independent
party. The quality mark also involves
many “soft” aspects. Accreditation
provides peace of mind for both
the client, who can rely on the
laboratory monitoring its parameters
and continuously servicing its
instruments, and the operator, who
has the support of documented
procedures and descriptions.
“One significant advantage with accreditation is reliability,” explains Ewa Lie,
Quality System Manager at Innventia.
“It’s easy to make comparisons when the
work is carried out in strict accordance
with the applicable method.”
Fredrik Aldaeus and Anna Jacobs
work with chemical analysis methods.
They also highlight the role of the technical management function, which is
part of accreditation, in supporting the
development of quality work.
“As well as carrying out the review, the
experts also suggest improvements,” says
Fredrik. “As a result, our operations are
continuously developed. Accreditation
helps us to build up a good system.”
“We aim to work with all analysis
methods as if they were accredited,”
adds Anna. “In a complex operation with
around 200 chemical analyses and 400
assignments per year, this arrangement
makes life easier.”
Innventia carries out accredited operations at the Chemical Analysis, Physical
Testing of Pulp and Paper, Environmental
Testing and Optical Calibration laboratories. Its operations are well established,
and have mostly existed for almost twenty years. Some methods are more specCurrent awareness from the Innventia Group
tacular in nature, such as those for testing base stations that need to withstand
earthquakes, but there are also advantages in using an independent laboratory
when it comes to simpler analyses.
“Many of our customers emphasise
the fact that we are an independent
player,” continues Fredrik. “For example,
many of them could certainly carry out
the product safety analyses themselves
or within their group, but the fact that
we do them brings added value. They
benefit from having a document to show
that the analyses have been carried out
by an independent party and in accordance with accredited methods.”
Fredrik says that this accreditation is
also an internationally recognised quality mark, since SWEDAC – which audits
and carries out the Swedish accreditations* – is in turn audited by an international organisation. contact: ewa.lie@innventia.com
* Accreditation takes place at 16 month intervals. Becoming accredited requires an effective
management system based on the ISO 17025
standard.
För många är ackreditering
detsamma som en kvalitetsstämpel. Att
anlita ett ackrediterat laboratorium innebär att allt är spårbart och att analyser
och provningar utförts av en oberoende
aktör. Ackrediteringen ger trygghet till såväl
beställaren, som kan lita på att laboratoriet har koll på sina parametrar och gör
kontinuerlig service på sina instrument,
som till utföraren som kan stödja sig på
dokumenterade rutiner och beskrivningar.
Den tekniska ledningsfunktionen är också
ett stöd att kontinuerligt utveckla kvalitetsarbetet genom förbättringar. Innventia har
ackrediterad verksamhet vid laboratorierna för Kemisk analys, Fysikalisk provning av
massa och papper, Miljötålighetsprovning
och Optisk kalibrering.
Innventia Global Outlook
Report
What?
–– International foresight and trend
report focusing on consumer
packaging
Content?
–– Global trends and drivers
–– Future scenarios
–– Expert interviews
–– International market survey
conducted in Sweden, US and
India
When?
–– Released January 21st , 2013
contact: sofie.nordin@innventia.com,
www.innventia.com/packaging2020
Claus Schleiter (DELTA), Anders Engström,
Annika Kihlstedt, Torben Jacobson (Innventia)
and Ulf Bjerke (DELTA).
Innventia and DELTA
initiate cooperation
Innventia, and the Danish consultancy
firm, DELTA, have signed a cooperation
agreement concerning DELTA’s Test &
Consultancy division with activities in
Västerås and Innventia’s testing activities in Kista.
Innventia’s laboratory in Kista is currently Sweden’s leading supplier of services within environmental testing, such
as vibration and climate tests. DELTA
has more than 70 years’ experience in
the EMC area (electromagnetic compatibility).
Thanks to the agreement, the companies can now offer their customers
package solutions within environmental
testing and EMC. contact: annika.kihlstedt@innventia.com
Beyond #3/2012
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