Sustainability

Ardagh Group Wins Sustainability Award

Ardagh Group won a Sustainability Award in the inaugural “Pre-Commercialised Innovation” category for its method of producing re-meltable briquettes from the fine particle glass rejected during the recycling process.

October 22, 2020

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Sustainability

Aluminum Wine Bottle Delivers Rugged Luxury

New wine products aluminum bottles are geared toward a number of different lifestyles and occasions. Revelshine premium wine is ‘designed to be taken off the beaten path.’

October 22, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

UPM Raflatac Wins Innovation in Sourcing Award from Sustainable Packaging Coalition

UPM Adhesive Materials

UPM Raflatac’s Forest Film label material received the 2020 Innovation in Responsible Sourcing Award from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC).

October 20, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Plant-Based, Reusable Water Bottle is Geared Toward Tourists

Bottle Up brings collectible, prefilled, reusable bottles to London and Amsterdam, with other major cities soon rolling out, to help reduce the plastic litter left behind by tourists.

October 20, 2020

Sustainability

Greif-Velox Launches American Subsidiary

Greif-Velox

Greif-Velox launched Greif-Velox America LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will operate regional sales and service in North, Central and South America.

October 19, 2020

Sustainability

Cascades to Launch Packaging Solutions at PACK EXPO Connects

Cascades Inc.

Cascades will introduce four new eco-friendly packaging solution brands at PACK EXPO Connects.

October 19, 2020

Sustainability

Graham Packaging Wins SPC Innovator Award

Graham Packaging

Graham Packaging received the Sustainable Packaging Coalition’s (SPC) Innovator Award for Innovation in Recovery for its REFPET returnable, refillable PET containers.

October 15, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Meyers Commits to Carbon-free Electricity by End of 2021

Meyers

Meyers announces it has committed to obtaining all its electricity from carbon-free sources by the end of 2021. By committing to use only carbon-free energy sources for electricity, Meyers is dramatically reducing its carbon emissions.

October 13, 2020

Flexible packaging

Baby Food Brand Grows Up

Babyblends maker Little Spoon has expanded its product offerings to include supplements/vitamins and a line of plated meals for the younger set in just a few short years, while also selling solely direct-to-consumer.

October 13, 2020

Sustainability

Cosmetic Packaging Company Adopts Eastman’s Cristal Renew

Eastman Chemical Co.

Qualiform, a France-based cosmetics packaging manufacturer, launched a line of bottles integrating Eastman Cristal Renew copolyester.

October 12, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Recycled Content Mandates: Pros and Cons

While recycled content mandates could drive significant change, policies enacted to create system efficiencies must consider impacts and opportunities across the entire system

October 9, 2020

Beverage

New Sustainable Milk Carton

Clover Sonoma, a third-generation family-owned and operated dairy based in Petaluma, Calif., is transitioning its half-gallon organic milk to a fully renewable plant-based paperboard milk carton.

October 9, 2020

Sustainability

Innovating the Plant-Based Food Category with Functional Superfoods

Lavva is growing its brand with Paleo and Keto-certified plant-based yogurts and milk products.

October 6, 2020