Eric Klingenberg

Eric Klingenberg has a PhD in Chemistry and has spent over 30 years in Industry leading new materials development. He has been at Mars for 13 years and currently leads materials science for Mars Advanced Research Institute (MARI), focused on the development of new sustainable packaging designs and materials, and supporting the development of infrastructure for recycling packaging materials. He works closely with the Mars business segments and is actively engaged with material suppliers and recycling organizations to provoke long-term innovation breakthroughs and transformations in sustainable plastics packaging.