Dow Opens Innovation Center in Italy
- Published: May 27, 2015
HORGEN, SWITZERLAND | The Dow Chemical Company announces the introduction of a new Pack Studios innovation center in Mozzate, Italy. Purpose-built to address the needs of its adhesives customers, the new center further expands the company’s global capabilities and underpins the increased commitment to growth and innovation of the Dow Adhesives portfolio for the packaging, textiles, and hygiene markets.
The center is said to allow customers to accelerate the development of innovative solutions. “Dow has a tradition of cooperatively helping customers drive innovation,” says Fabrizio Trinchero, Dow Adhesives sales director for EMEA. “With the Mozzate Pack Studios facility, we are building upon this foundation, creating a new standard for collaborative development in packaging. From equipment manufacturers and package designers to prototyping specialists and resin experts, Pack Studios brings them all together and puts their knowledge to work for our customers. The aim is faster commercialization of new adhesives solutions.” 
He adds, “We are very pleased with this new facility because it allows us to take the Dow Adhesives’ promise to deliver Science that Connects to the next level of implementation and reflects our commitment to driving deeper collaboration across the value chain to deliver innovative solutions for our customers and the industry.”
The Mozzate center joins the ranks of Dow’s four established Pack Studios facilities in Switzerland, Brazil, China, and Texas. Like the other global innovation hubs, the new Italian Pack Studios features a collaboration room to inspire solution-based thinking, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for material development, and fabrication and testing equipment to validate packaging applications. Dow customers and other stakeholders in the packaging value chain also have the opportunity to collaborate on-site with dedicated Dow technical teams as well as a global network of industry experts in packaging application, materials, and design. The center also connects customers with company’s global network of capabilities, which include resins, lamination, converting, packaging, testing, etc.
The center features a new industry-scale Nordmeccanica Super Combi 3000 laminator line. This reportedly allows customers to minimize the downtime associated with prototyping, testing, and wear and tear on their own equipment as well as eliminate the need to use their own equipment or disrupt their commercial production.
“Nordmeccanica strongly believes in the power of innovation,” says Giancarlo Caimmi, commercial director at Nordmeccanica Group. “This is the reason why we are honored to partner at the Pack Studios with Dow.… Pack Studios is the perfect example of what we consider a winning concept, and we are really pleased to have a part in it”.
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