Heb geen NL term kunnen vinden. Jack heeft het in principe bij het rechte eind, maar de term omvat daarnaast het behoud van kwaliteitseigenschappen.

http://www.exxonmobilchemical.com/Chem-English/sustainabilit... :
“Downgauging refers to reducing the amount of material in a product while still maintaining or even improving the properties of that material.”

http://www.ptonline.com/articles/tips-and-techniques-how-to-... :
“Downgauging has become a buzzword among material suppliers and the processing community. It allows packagers to offer the same products with higher product-to-package ratios by using thinner materials. This approach to resin implementation has changed the way the industry does business.”

http://www.packagingtoday.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=65854 :
“Downgauging is like the best ideas – simple and yet highly effective. In essence, it entails the creation of packaging that offers more from less. More performance but from less material, meaning major reductions in the volume of packaging used and subsequent waste created, …

By combining these factors, the manufacturer is able to produce polyethylene (PE) film for conversion into pallet stretchhoods, sheeting, open mouth sacks and tubular sacks on the reel which offer all the performance of conventional products but from a film profile that’s as much as 25% thinner.”

http://www.trescon.nl/top/Bladen/Dieptrekfolie pi.htm :
“-‘down gauging’: dunnere folie met minimaal dezelfde eigenschappen en kwaliteitsnormen.”

http://www.avi-volendam.nl/nl/leveringsprogramma/ :
“De productie van MDPE maakt dunnere folies mogelijk terwijl belangrijke eigenschappen als transparantie, sterkte, krimp, stijfheid, lasbaarheid en diepvriesbestendigheid behouden blijven. (downgauging)”