Sustainable Packaging

Connect Snacks Designs PFAS-Free Packaging for Microwave Popcorn

Connect Snacks removes the plastic, PFAS-based liner typically used in microwave popcorn packaging, eliminating the possibility of the ‘forever chemical’ from leaching into its product.

January 5, 2023

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Sustainability

NeoPharm Cuts Product Loss, Boosts Reputation with Protective Paper System

Motivated by aesthetics and ESG concerns, the medical skincare company moved from plastic air pillows to paper pads for transport packaging. With product lines catering to infants and children, they’re demonstrating support for environmental health.

January 5, 2023

Flexible packaging

BW Packaging Systems Rebrands as BW Packaging

BW Packaging (a Barry-Wehmiller Company)

Effective today, Barry-Wehmiller’s global team of packaging professionals will go by BW Packaging, officially dropping the “Systems” from its name.

January 4, 2023

Sustainability

Creation Accelerates Its Sustainability Drive for 2023

Creation Reprographics

Creation Reprographics, a dedicated prepress and repro partner to packaging and label printers, will advance its operations and range as it looks to remain the go-to name in printing prepress sustainability.

January 4, 2023

Flexibles

Top 10 Articles of 2022 - #4: Flexible Pouches Replace Rigid Containers at McDonald’s

Join us as we look back at the most-read Packaging World stories of 2022. At #4, let's see how McDonalds and its suppliers teamed up to invent a flexible packaging-based applicator solution.

December 31, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Top 10 Articles of 2022 - #8: Colgate Rolls Out Monomaterial Recyclable Tube

Join us as we look back at the most-read Packaging World stories of 2022. At #8, check out this recyclable toothpaste tube from Colgate-Palmolive, telling people to "Recycle me!"

December 26, 2022

Logistics/Supply Chain

EFP, LLC. Acquires NatureKool, Inc.

EFP, LLC.

Acquisition strengthens EFP’s temperature-controlled packaging portfolio and commitment to environmental stewardship.

December 22, 2022

Flexible packaging

Sabic, Scientex Collaborate to Develop PP Flexible Food Packaging Using PCR Ocean Bound Plastic

SABIC

This value chain collaboration enables ocean bound plastic (OBP) to be successfully brought back into circular material stream for conversion to high-quality flexible packaging.

December 22, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Mars Wrigley to Switch to Paper-Based Packaging in Australia

Popular candy bars Snickers, Milky Way, and Mars Bar will be packaged in a paper film with ultra-thin plastic layer, making the flow-wrapped packs curbside recyclable in what the company says is a world first.

December 21, 2022

Protective/transport packaging

The ISTA Forum 2023 Program is Live, Featuring TransPack and TempPack

The agenda is now live for the 2023 ISTA Forum, which takes place May 1 to 3, 2023, in Houston. The event gathers industry professionals shaping the future of transport packaging.

December 20, 2022

Plastics/resins

ExxonMobil Doubles PP Production at Baton Rouge Plant

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil announces the startup of its new PP production unit at the Polyolefins Plant in Baton Rouge.

December 19, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

PET Collection Rate for Recycling Reaches Highest Level Ever in 2021: NAPCOR Report

The rise in the U.S. PET collection rate for recycling, including for both PET bottles and thermoforms, points to a significant rebound in PET redemption after the roadblocks presented by the pandemic.

December 19, 2022

Sustainability

Amcor Announces Deal With ExxonMobil to Drive Progress on Advanced Recycling Materials for Food and Healthcare Markets

Amcor Flexibles North America

Five-year deal to secure thousands of tons of high-performance, certified-circular material from ExxonMobil's advanced recycling plant.

December 16, 2022