Since WhatTheyThink covers the entire printing industry writ large, it occurred to me that in the most recent article I wrote about graphene, which summarized a panel of a group of fabulous speakers, many different industries were touched on, but packaging never came up in the discussion.

Being the curious sort that I am, I reached out to Terrance Barkan of The Graphene Council to see if he knew of any graphene activity or research going on in the print and packaging industry. As always, he had an answer for me—Tetra Pak joined the European Commission Graphene Flagship project as the exclusive representative from the packaging industry to explore possible future applications of graphene in food and beverage (F&B) manufacturing!

Sara De Simoni, VP, Equipment Engineering, Tetra Pak said: “Tetra Pak’s involvement with the European Graphene Flagship is one example of our ambition to drive innovation to the next level. It is a privilege to be the only representative from our industry in this research initiative and puts us at the cutting edge to address challenges through multidisciplinary research and development together with our industry partners.”