Selected Papers from the “3rd International Congress on Advances in the Packaging Industry—Sustainability: Products and Processes (API2021)”
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 2685
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 3rd International Congress on Advances in the Packaging Industry—Sustainability: Products and Processes (API2021) was held virtually on 11–12 November 2021. The congress was organized by the Regional Competence Centre for Technologies (CRdC Tecnologie Scarl, www.crdctecnologie.it) and the Italian Flexible Packaging Association (Giflex, www.giflex.it). The aim of the organizers was to create a multidisciplinary forum to discuss themes worthy of further investigation in the quickly-developing field of flexible packaging, considering the perspectives of both the scientific and business worlds.
The main topics of the congress were as follows:
- Advances in packaging materials and design;
- Active and passive barrier solutions and new functionalities;
- Food packaging safety: Emerging risks and regulatory issues;
- Eco design, circular economy and environmental impact;
- Lamination, printing and converting processes;
- Hazard and safety issues in the packaging production industry;
- Functional coating and surface treatment technologies;
- Nanotechnologies for packaging;
- Packaging during the time of COVID;
- Packaging innovation in support of the European Green Deal.
Authors of selected high-quality papers presented at the congress will be invited to submit their extended version for publishing in this Special Issue of the journal Polymers dedicated to API2021. In this regard, contributions in the form of research or review articles are welcome. All invited articles will undergo a thorough peer-review process.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Prof. Dr. Domenico Acierno
Dr. Valeria Di Sarli
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Polymers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- flexible packaging
- food packaging safety
- converting processes
- packaging sustainability
- packaging for COVID
