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Research & development

Our Research and Development focuses on creating flexible packaging solutions for our customers and the needs of the circular economy that make products more attractive and easier to use.

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Developing new innovations

In addition to supporting our divisions and product managers/application engineers as efficient service provider in customer projects, R&D also develops completely new innovations (in-house developments).  

For this, our raw material experts are in regular contact with external development partners, such as suppliers, technical organizations especially in the regulatory and recycling area, institutes and universities for early identification of market trends, future needs and relevant technologies.

Around 90 employees operate in the field of R&D and Innovation in a professional environment in our five Centers of Competence (CC) and Product Excellence Centers (PEC)

Competence Center

Competence Center

Aluminum Foil and Foil Laminates

Constantia Teich, Austria
  • Aluminum raw materials and foils
  • Extrusion coating compounds and processes
  • Lacquers and inks on foils
  • Adhesives on foils
  • Punching and laser scoring
  • UV-Flexo and digital printing
  • Analytics
  • Food and pharma legislation
Competence Center

Polymer Films and Functional Papers

Constantia Pirk, Germany
  • Polymers and films
  • Adhesive lamination
  • Lacquers and inks on plastics
  • Adhesives on plastics
  • Cold seal materials
  • Flexo and gravure printing
  • Analytics
  • Product safety
  • Development of paper-based packaging materials
Competence Center

Polymer Films and Film Laminates

Constantia Parikh, India

Polymer films

  • PE film extrusion
  • Coatings/Converting of films
  • Recyclability studies

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Excellence Center

Product Excellence Center

Pharma Blister

Constantia Patz, Austria
  • Application engineering and analytics
  • Blister forming line
  • Simulation of forming process
  • Pharma-specific row materials
Product Excellence Center

Pharma Laminates

Constantia Tobepal, Spain
  • Pharma-specific raw material
  • Application engineering and analytics

Constantia Flexibles has bundled the technical resources in the Competence Centers (Groupwide R&D) and Product Excellence Centers (Pharma R&D) who have

  • State-of-the-art wet chemical laboratories with in-house lacquer development
  • Pilot plant facilities for blown and cast film extrusion, lacquering, adhesive and extrusion lamination, compound development, recycling of plastics and sealing & packaging trials
  • Pilot blown film line, we can not only use to develop efficiently new sealing films, but could also produce needed volumes in the pre-marketing phase
  • A wide range of analytical and test equipment for checking properties of incoming raw materials and market samples/products up to pilot testing of various kind
  • Deeper analytic capabilities to confirm compatibility of all our products with regulatory requirements
  • Experts in the area of food law compliance and experts for all relevant raw material groups (aluminum, polymer resins, films, paper, lacquers, inks, adhesives, cold seal materials, additives, …)
  • Patent department to perform e.g. FTO (freedom to operate) analyses

Contacts

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Grefenstein

SVP of Group R&D
T: +49 961 87 309
group_R&D@cflex.com
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Dr. Martin Kornfeld

VP of R&D CC Aluminium and Foil Laminates
group_R&D@cflex.com
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Dr. Claudia Müller

VP of R&D CC Polymer Films and Functional Papers
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