Are you able to introduce your self, your position and expertise within the packaging trade?
Teresa Vargas Matos – My identify is Teresa and I’m the Co-founder and Technique Supervisor of Issues To You Studio. My journey began in luxurious model administration at INSEEC college in Bordeaux, adopted by hands-on expertise in cosmetics and eco-friendly packaging at Estee Lauder and WISTADTS. Over these years, I’ve discovered that packaging provides a lot potential—not only for innovation however for actual influence. Now with over eight years of expertise within the packaging trade, my objective is to assist manufacturers transition and take a sustainable strategy for the longer term.
What impressed you to pursue a profession within the packaging trade?
Teresa Vargas Matos – All of it occurred by likelihood, to be trustworthy. I selected to specialize within the cosmetics trade as a part of my Luxurious Model Administration research in Bordeaux, which included analysis on cosmetics too. Once I began working, packaging shortly turned a giant focus, and I used to be included on a challenge round progressive mono-material packaging design—the place sustainability performed a central position. I used to be hooked. I’ve at all times been into branding and aesthetics, and in packaging, I discovered a strategy to create actual change. Now, it looks like I’m doing one thing with a objective, one thing that may make a distinction.
What is without doubt one of the greatest challenges you’ve confronted as a younger chief within the packaging trade?
Teresa Vargas Matos – The subject of recycling methods. The recycling methods fluctuate throughout areas and nations, with no common requirements. This inconsistency creates confusion for customers and types, making it troublesome to develop packaging that may be universally recycled. The trade hasn’t provide you with a transparent path that matches every materials concerning which kind of recyclability course of is greatest or best. Due to this massive problem I feel that it’s essential to increase the dialogue past recyclability and combine the rules of conscient consumption, discount and reuse. Sustainability is a really broad idea and it will likely be troublesome to discover a silver bullet, so it is very important discover a answer in recycling methods but in addition to information the trade in direction of extra accountable, energy-efficient, and round practices that scale back useful resource consumption, eradicate waste, and provides the merchandise a number of lives.
When you may change one factor concerning the packaging trade, what would it not be and why?
Teresa Vargas Matos – The packaging trade usually struggles with a information hole concerning sustainable practices. Many manufacturers lack the experience or assets to implement efficient sustainability methods. This leads manufacturers to take unstructured and unplanned actions on how they’ll change their packaging to extra sustainable options. The seek for specialised consultancy should be a precedence within the funding of manufacturers to design a path with a objective. It is just attainable to do a sustainable transition when manufacturers have a look at the sustainable strategy as a pillar of their enterprise and never as an idea that’s being imposed by the market.
How do you see the position of future leaders like your self in shaping the route of the trade?
Teresa Vargas Matos – We’re a technology that represents the brand new client preferences and brings a pure affinity for digital instruments and progressive applied sciences that may revolutionize packaging design and manufacturing. We aren’t solely involved about sustainability but in addition about innovation and clear client engagement sustaining genuine sustainability claims and avoiding the chance of greenwashing.
What recommendation would you give to younger professionals who’re simply beginning their careers in packaging?
Teresa Vargas Matos – I’d inform them to remain curious and to continue learning and adapting. The packaging trade evolves shortly with the introduction of latest supplies, designs and applied sciences influenced by client preferences and sustainable rules, developments and new achievements. Making sustainability a core a part of studying whereas being adaptable and resilient are vital focuses to supply priceless insights into the way forward for the trade.
What does it imply to you to be chosen as a Future Leaders?
Teresa Vargas Matos – Being chosen as a Future Chief it’s such an honor and truthfully an enormous milestone that acknowledges all of the work I’ve put into pushing for optimistic adjustments within the trade within the final years. It additionally brings a accountability to make use of my expertise, concepts, and management to deal with the trade’s greatest challenges. Plus, it’s an enormous alternative to get the prospect to continue learning instantly from right this moment’s trade leaders.
