New electrical delamination technology for opening packages is being developed by Stora Enso. The company says its CDM, Controlled Delamination Materials enable two attached packages or parts of packages to be easily separated using electricity. This is said to provide easy opening of consumer packs and new distribution options using CDM to hold items together and to release them smoothly.
"We foresee that CDM will provide significant savings in material and distribution costs," says Lars Sandberg, manager of package design at Stora Enso Consumer Boards. Our vision for the future is also to create totally new solutions for opening packages. CDM has the potential to change some very fundamental aspects of packaging.
With the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (Vinnova), the company is financing basic research and developing new applications based on CDM. Co-operating partners include the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Karlstad University, the Packaging Arena and the Acreo Institute in Sweden. Pira International took part in the early evaluation of the technology.
Details of the patents pending technology are not yet available but, in November Stora Enso is to open a CDM Centre to provide information on it and develop it further. Retailers and brand owners, as well as technology and packaging suppliers and the academic research community will be invited to participate in the development of applications based on CDM.
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