Paris Packaging 2026: How Material Science and Global Innovation Are Reshaping the Future of Packaging

Hello, Gabriel. Hello, Daniel. I'm very excited to be here. I'm very glad that you're here with us today. We're at Paris Packaging twenty twenty six. We are we brought a lot of innovation Yeah. To bear. We are trying to showcase it in the best way possible. We have the whole team from Europe, from around the world in. One of the things I think that a lot of people will have will ask because it's part of our identity. It's in literally in our logo. It's around material science. So material science, when you think about it, a lot of people will think about labs, about testing. You talk about it a little bit more broadly. What do you mean when you talk about, when you think about materials like that? The molecules and the resins and the materials, but it's, is much broader than that. It enables us to understand what we're solving for, what are the challenges that our customers have in the market. So the material science is a piece, but it's also the manufacturing of those materials. The people that go into it, ensuring that we understand how we're gonna solve for the needs that our customers and the markets that we're in. It's true. It exists. It's the other components. Yes, there's the human component in the science part that that we're trying as well. Right. Correct. Right. The second part is, obviously, we're highlighting innovation. It's the booth and all that we're bringing three of them with us to the Paris packaging this year. When you think about innovation, the fact that we are a global organization, how do you look at how that influences how we innovate? That's a good question. And we are a global organization and we recognize there are some market needs either that our customers have, their customers, the brand owners, the end of the day, us as consumers Yeah, absolutely. Want and like and need. And so the fact that we're global allows us to understand those needs. Some of them are the same across the world, many are different based off of the regions or the countries in which we operate, the markets that some of our customers are in, maybe the need of a food, the food market is different from health and beauty. Right? So the innovation piece is really engaging with the entire value stream and understanding what those opportunities are and solving for them across that journey. And making the innovation relevant for the area of the Definitely, Yes. So coming back to, to you. You've you've been with us for how a year and a half a year and a half now. And one of the things that when you came in is around the same idea of a global organization, the first things you did is you took the different parts of, IPS and brought it created one IPS, one global IPS organization. So a year in Right. How is that going? What would you say how where are we at? We're it's we're a year year, year and a half in that journey, and it is a journey, so we're continuing to evolve. But it's gone really well. It has allowed us to, I think, connect better with our customers on a global scale, ones that are global. But still have that local connection. All right. Right? Again, addressing the needs in the countries and the regions in which our customers operate. It's allowed us to share best practices from location to location, be it the products that we're bringing to market like the three that we have here today to the technologies that we use to bring those to market to really help ourselves and help our customers get to market faster with that new innovation. Amazing. Amazing. So related to that, when people come in to our booth at Paris Packaging, what should they expect? What do you think from based on what you've seen, what do you what should they expect from us? I engage team behind me here. Okay. But to be able to have a conversation that starts with, well, what are the challenges that you're having? K. Now we don't yes. We sell pieces and parts and things, but what are you striving for? What are you trying to do? Being able I expect them to be able to have a conversation with the team we have here this week about what struggles they're having. Okay. And it may be connecting with a a type of consumer, a different demographic, but it may be operational as well. So being able to have those conversations, those meeting conversations and leave these two days with additional focuses, action items, plans to have more face to face conversations to drive these things forward. Amazing. And future looking, when you think about the ITS organization, you think about Techniplex as a whole, what would you say, you know, ten years down the road, that point in, where is it? Where is it going? What is there anything you can share, about that? How about the vision behind it? Yeah. The vision is strong when we have some really, really aggressive, growth plans that we ourselves as a team have have put together, not ones that anyone else did for us, but we know the value that we have and we truly believe that we can help our customers grow until we want to grow with them as they do and recognize that. Ten years from now, I expect to be sitting with a cup of coffee saying, I remember when we were just this size. Because there are people here in the organization that look and say, I remember five years ago True. And we were this size. And that speed of the pace of change that speed of pace and innovation and growth. We've done it. We're gonna continue to do it. So ten years from now May like It's gonna be amazing. Well, look forward to it. It's very exciting. Honestly, it's palpable, the excitement that's the team has Contagious. And it is contagious as well. All right. So thank you very much for taking the time. We hope you join us in the booth, booth S50 at Ferris Package Remake.