About the webinar
The metal packaging industry is entering a period of increasing complexity. Sustainability targets, lightweighting and evolving regulations are reshaping manufacturing, while raising expectations around quality, consistency and operational efficiency.
Industrial Physics’ latest research provides insight into the priorities, pressures and opportunities facing the sector as manufacturers prepare for the years ahead.
The webinar will take a forward-looking view of the metal packaging industry, using Industrial Physics’ research as a starting point to explore how manufacturers are responding to changing demands and where opportunities exist to support continued innovation, efficiency and performance.
Bringing together perspectives from Industrial Physics, the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA) and Suntory Beverage & Food, the webinar will explore:
- · The changing demands facing metal packaging manufacturers
- · How businesses are balancing sustainability, recyclability, lightweighting, quality and performance
- · The role of testing, measurement and automation in helping manufacturers respond to these demands
- · The practical considerations around adopting new technologies and processes
- · What manufacturers need to prepare for the years ahead, and how the industry can work together to support this transition
The webinar will look ahead to consider how manufacturers can build on the strengths of metal packaging, embrace new and emerging opportunities, and shape a more efficient, sustainable and high-performing future for the sector.
Learning Objectives
- Gain insight into how regulation, sustainability targets and changing customer expectations are reshaping priorities for metal packaging manufacturers, and what these pressures mean in practice for the years ahead.
- Explore the practical challenges of balancing lightweighting and recyclability with structural integrity, product quality and cost in high-speed manufacturing environments.
- Understand where current quality control and testing approaches are coming under pressure, including challenges around repeatability, operator dependency and identifying quality issues early enough in production.
- Learn how manufacturers are approaching investment and operational change, including the barriers to adopting new technologies and the role of collaboration, measurement and automation in improving long-term resilience.
Steve Davis
Global Director Product Management
Industrial Physics
With over two decades of engineering experience, Steve Davis is a true expert when it comes to the design and development of metal packaging testing systems. He has provided solutions for many of the world’s leading can makers and can fillers.
Steve’s roles have been diverse – from helping customers find the right equipment in technical sales roles to leading as a European VP of a metal packaging measurement business.
At Industrial Physics, he utilises his specialist skills to lead a team of experts and ensure the brand’s equipment can protect the integrity of its customer’s metal packaging.
Jason Galley
Director and Chief Executive
Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association
Jason Galley is Director and Chief Executive of the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA) with responsibility for the overall management of the trade association. The MPMA represents around 30-member companies in a UK sector which employs close to 3,500 employees across 50 factories.
Jason is the lead voice for the metal packaging sector, championing and promoting the unique recyclability and sustainable benefits of aluminium and steel packaging while demonstrating its role in the circular economy and food security. Prior to his MPMA role, Jason has held senior innovation, sustainability and operations roles within global metal packaging organisations.
Gregory Bentley
EU Packaging Director & SMEE COO
Suntory
Gregory has worked in the packaging industry for over 25 years in a range of roles and companies from design to engineering and converters to FMCG. His project portfolio includes a number of key projects at Coca-Cola and ABINBEV, including Share a Coke, bow label, the all-new Fanta spiral bottle, before taking on full time leadership roles in WestRock and Suntory, where developing the next generation of packaging professionals is his passion and focus.
A passionate advocate of sustainable and innovative packaging, sharing his passion through his Instagram packaging blog @passionforpack. Gregory joined Suntory in 2022 and leads the Suntory Beverage and Food Europe packaging team.
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