Dr Mark Dawes, the European Market Development Manager for DuPont Teijin Films’ packaging business, has 32 years of technical and scientific experience in PET based flexible packaging and has been influential in many innovative developments from the replacement of aluminium lids to white PET versions in dairy lidding to the development of high temperature ovenable packaging structures. For the past decade he has been instrumental in facilitating the advancement of top seal packaging throughout Europe and is a highly regarded expert in heat seal technologies.