Bags, pouches, tubes--how do you dazzle someone at a cocktail party talking about "flexible packaging"?

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To satisfy that level of demand, flexible packaging companies will need to be innovative partners with their customers.

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The real question is whether flexible packaging has any logical connection with Danisco's main focus on food ingredients.

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He discovered a trade publication called Flexible Packaging and in it, found a manufacturer in California that could recreate the pouches used by Andros and Materne: a blend of recyclable, food-grade plastic and aluminum, with a resealable pouch that could hold 90 grams of applesauce.

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The company's biggest problem has been its flexible-packaging business, the smallest of the three main product groups, which has been hit by fierce competition in Europe and by poor management.

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The company's products are used by diverse consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, residential and commercial construction as well as other durable and non-durable goods.

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"This means traditional packaging for batteries has given way to a much more flexible approach that allows all kinds of new design and integration possibilities for storage devices, " said Prof Ajayan.

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