Sustainability

Sabic, UPM Raflatac Launch Label Materials Made from Certified Circular Ocean Bound Plastic

Sabic joined an innovative project with value chain partners to help UPM Raflatac launch a packaging label material made from SABIC®certified circular PP based on advanced recycled ocean bound plastic (OBP).

June 16, 2022

Sustainability: Page 148

Sustainable Packaging

Planning Your E-Comm Package’s Funeral: Considerations for Designing for End of Life

Fuseneo’s Brent Lindberg advises E-Pack Europe attendees on how to design packaging for composting, reuse, and especially recycling, rather than for burial in a landfill.

June 15, 2022

Flexible packaging

2023 WorldStar Global Packaging Awards Open for Entries

World Packaging Organisation (WPO)

WPO (World Packaging Organisation) announces that submitting entries for WorldStar 2023 is now open and closes on October 20, 2022.

June 15, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Amazon: Transformational Change in E-comm Packaging Begins Upstream

At E-Pack Europe 2022, Amazon’s Jeremy Long explains how true innovation around e-commerce packaging requires an upstream strategy that involves both the product and the packaging.

June 14, 2022

Flexible packaging

Michelman Collaborates with Bobst, UPM on Sustainable Packaging Innovation

Michelman Inc.

On June 15th, Bobst will host a webinar to discuss an innovative new solution for the creation of high-barrier, sustainable, fiber-based food packaging, developed in conjunction with Michelman and UPM Specialty Papers.

June 14, 2022

Sustainability

Aliplast Helps France’s Wine and Champagne Industries Become Sustainable

Aliplast, a Hera Group company

Aliplast, a Hera group company, that specializes in plastic recovery and recycling, offers a specific service portfolio to the champagne and wine markets in France.

June 14, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

EPS-Free Packaging Passes the Test for Heavy, Fragile VELUX Windows

The shift to paper-based packaging from EPS for sustainability purposes is common these days, but it’s noteworthy in this case since the products are notoriously heavy, unwieldy, and highly breakable glass windows and frames.

June 13, 2022

Sustainability

Ranpak Holdings Corp. Announces Progress Towards Key ESG Targets

Ranpak

Ranpak, a manufacturer of environmentally sustainable, paper-based packaging solutions for e-commerce and industrial supply chains, released its 2021 ESG Impact Report showing it made significant progress in 2021 towards achieving its 2030 ESG targets.

June 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Produce Packaging Ripe for Innovation

From European plastic bans to consumers pushing for what they perceive to be more sustainable packaging, produce companies are finding ways to maintain or improve shelf life while contributing to a circular economy.

June 7, 2022

Sustainability

Tetra Pak Announces Collaborations to Accelerate Innovations for the Future of the Food Industry

Tetra Pak Inc.

Ahead of United Nations World Food Safety Day, Tetra Pak announced its new set of research collaborations and programs to further accelerate efforts to address challenges facing food systems worldwide.

June 2, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Defunkify Helps Remove 41K Pounds of Ocean Plastic

To offset its plastic packaging footprint, bio-based household cleaning products company Defunkify partners with rePurpose Global to help fund the removal of plastic waste headed into marine ecosystems

June 2, 2022

Controls & Machine Components

OEM's Head-to-head Pneumatic vs. Servo Test Shows CPGs Savings

Stacking equipment manufacturer Forpak devised a test to see how incumbent pneumatic actuators stacked up against newer mechatronic servo technology, specifically on a frozen food stacking and laning application. These are the results.

June 1, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Mars Faces Challenges of Flexible Packaging-based Portfolio

Allison Lin, Global VP of Packaging Sustainability at Mars shares how the company is exploring a range of alternatives to multilayer flexible packaging for greater circularity.

May 31, 2022