Innovate UK Smart Sustainable Packaging Challenge: BMT's simulation driven approach to sustainable packaging
BMT's Dr Ross Blair, Head of Simulation, joined leaders from across the UK plastic packaging supply chain at the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge Celebration Event, hosted by Innovate UK and UKRI at the Royal Society in London.
The event marked the completion of a five year, sixty million pound government programme that has funded more than eighty projects across the UK plastics, packaging and retail supply chains, spanning recycling technologies, bio based packaging materials, and reuse and refill systems.
BMT's contribution to the conversation
Ross shared insights on how digital innovation and simulation at BMT are driving smarter, more sustainable packaging solutions, a theme that ran throughout an event built around demonstrating how UK innovation can deliver measurable progress on plastic packaging circularity.
BMT's approach to sustainable packaging engineering centres on replacing guesswork with measured, validated data, using simulation and material characterisation to help manufacturers reduce waste, lower carbon footprints and accelerate the transition to recycled and bio based materials. Being part of a celebration of UK government backed innovation in this space is a genuine reflection of where that work sits within the wider national effort to reduce plastic packaging's environmental footprint.
Why events like this matter
Programmes like the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge demonstrate the scale of investment and collaboration needed to shift an entire supply chain toward more sustainable practices. For a company like BMT, working at the intersection of simulation, material science and lab scale validation, being part of that wider conversation, alongside recyclers, material innovators, retailers and policymakers, is exactly where meaningful progress gets made.
It was a privilege for Ross to represent BMT among such a strong community of UK plastic packaging innovators.
Curious how BMT's simulation led approach could support your own sustainable packaging development? Get in touch with our team.