Electron Beam Treatment of Sustainable Packaging Material

Presented by Steffen Gunther, Elisa Kutschke and Andreas Bork, Fraunhofer FEP

Electron beam treatment is well known to change thermo-mechanical properties of petrolbased polymeric materials. Newest results will be presented with respect to property changes of sustainable materials like PLA etc.  The following properties will be highlighted:

• optical
• mechanical
• thermo-mechanical