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Dr Gary Ogden, Technical Manager at Wells Plastics and Mark Shaw, Technical Sales Manager at Parkside Flexibles, represented the HiBarFilm Project, at the Sustainable Plastics Europe 2024 Exhibition and Conference. This conference took place in Frankfurt, Germany on the 13-14 May 2024 and was sponsored by the HiBarFilm partner, Wells Plastics. Dr Ogden, gave a …

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HiBarFilm partner Wells Plastics is sponsoring and exhibiting at the Sustainable Plastics Europe 2024 Exhibition and Conference, taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on the 13-14 May 2024. Dr Gary Ogden, Wells Plastics Technical Manager, will be presenting a conference paper on ‘High-Barrier Mono-Material Flexible Films for Food Contact Applications’ with data generated from the HiBarFilm2 …

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Q8 Meeting of the HiBarFilm project took place on the 20 March 2024. This meeting was hosted by the Project Coordinator, Haydale. At this meeting, partners from Parkside and Wells showed the excellent progress there have been with the scale up of films. Dunbia also showed the packaging tests they have carried out. After the …

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On the 18th January, HiBarFilm partners Wells Plastics and Bangor University, had a great trial running three-layer bioplastic formulations with different barrier additives! The trials were held at Bangor University. These trials are part of the HiBarFilm2 Project, which has funding by Innovate UK. https://hibarfilm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HIBarFilm-Echo-trial.mov

The Project Partner BASF hosted the Q7 meeting of the project at their offices in Stockport. During the meeting it was discussed what has been achieved in this quarter and the next steps to be taken. Partners showed the great commitment and interest we all have in the project.

The HiBarFilm Project is delighted to announce that Julia Hewerdine, from the partner organisation DUNBIA, has been nominated in the Training and Education Category of the Women in Meat Awards. Julia Hewerdine, who is the Group Food Safety and Quality Projects Manager has been nominated for the work she has been doing on the student …

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Dr Rob Elias from the University of Birmingham will be representing the HiBarFilm project at the GRIPS conference, which is taking place this year in Coventry on the 10th -11th May 2023. The Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS 2023) is organised by the UK Circular Plastics Network, KTN and UKRI’s Smart Sustainable …

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