Sealed Air

Sealed Air is the specialty packaging materials company behind Cryovac food packaging and Bubble Wrap, with an R&D focus increasingly centered on bio-based and recyclable polymer alternatives to replace petrochemical-derived foam and film products. Its Packaging Science Center in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, partners with Clemson University's School of Packaging and the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Plastics Engineering department on compostable barrier coatings, active packaging films with antimicrobial properties, and mechanical recycling compatibility testing. Sealed Air participates in the Closed Loop Foundation's research grants and co-funds a sustainability research chair at Clemson focused on life-cycle assessment methodologies for packaging systems. The company recruits heavily from polymer science, food science, and materials engineering graduate programs, particularly from programs producing graduates familiar with extrusion, blown-film processing, and barrier-layer coextrudates. For academic-intelligence buyers covering sustainable materials and packaging-science talent pipelines, Sealed Air offers a clear view of where industrial polymer R&D intersects with circular-economy academic research.