The Dow Chemical Co.’s Packaging and Specialty Plastics business received 2015 R&D 100 Awards for two of its packaging technologies. The annual awards celebrate the most significant technology inventions of the past year. R&D Magazine announced the winners in November at an awards dinner in Las Vegas.
Each of Dow’s winning products entered the market in the last year as a market-focused solution to address key customer challenges in a more sustainable way. The two winners are PacXpert packaging technology, a flexible, lightweight alternative to rigid packaging, and the polyethylene (PE) stand-up pouch, which provides packaging for frozen and dried foods. It can be recycled in communities with existing PE film recycling streams and is eligible to use the How2Recycle label, according to the company.