Containers & Closures

SIG InnoVentures and Optima to Join PulPac’s Owner Group as Strategic Investors

Investment fuels the expansion of PulPac's Dry Molded Fiber technology.

May 12, 2025

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Bagging & Pouching

Scotts Grows Greener with Paper Sack

Scotts revives heritage brand O.M. Scott & Sons with a recyclable paper sack that’s built for performance, rooted in sustainability, and ready for modern lawn care.

May 8, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

New Origins Sample Pack Swaps Foil for Paper

Estée Lauder brand Origins debuts a recyclable 80% paper sample sachet, replacing foil with a more sustainable format that meets repulpability standards and cuts plastic use by 76%.

May 7, 2025

Package Design

The Clear Can Conundrum

Although eye-catching from a marketing standpoint, beverage producers struggle to crack the code on a cost-effective and sustainable way to package beverages in clear cans.

April 29, 2025

Plastics/resins

Amcor Completes Combination with Berry Global

Amcor

Amcor's all-stock combination with Berry Global expands its capabilities in consumer and healthcare packaging to advance product development and sustainability efforts.

May 2, 2025

Labeling

UPM Raflatac Offers Product Footprints in Customer Quotes

UPM Adhesive Materials

The company is providing label converters with transparent environmental data, including Scope 3 emissions information, directly within customer quotes through their product passport prototypes.

May 2, 2025

Digital Printing

SupplyOne Bolsters Northwest Region, Adds Digital Printing with Acquisition of The BoxMaker

SupplyOne

The newest addition to the SupplyOne portfolio is a national expert in digital packaging production and distribution, including custom boxes, retail displays, and product labels.

May 1, 2025

Wrapping

Mars' Kind is Next in Line with Curbside Recyclable Paper Wrapper

The repulpable paper used to flow-wrap these bars is a curbside recyclable, How2Recycle pre-qualified paper film supplied by Printpack. The move is more evidence of a growing global, now national trend toward paper films able to run on existing equipment.

May 1, 2025

Adhesives/tape

H.B. Fuller Announces 2025 Customer Innovation Awards Winners

H.B. Fuller

H.B. Fuller recognized four companies – CMC Packaging Automation, Georgia-Pacific, Changzhou Xingyu, and MITER Brands – for their use of the company's adhesive technologies to advance sustainability, performance, and efficiency in their industries.

April 28, 2025

Cartoning

Elopak Opens First U.S. Sustainable Packaging Plant

Elopak

Norwegian company's new Little Rock, Arkansas, facility will produce Pure-Pak cartons, creating 100 jobs and expanding its presence in the Americas.

April 24, 2025

Containers & Closures

Paper Cup Marries Finnish Licorice with Forest Innovation

From forest to shelf, a new package from Finnish licorice maker Kouvolan Lakritsi delivers a circular economy story rooted in regenerative forestry, renewable materials, and collaborative design.

April 23, 2025

Containers & Closures

Plastic Ingenuity Achieves Silver Medal EcoVadis Sustainability Rating

Plastic Ingenuity, Inc.

The company's commitment to environmental, social, and ethical sustainability practices placed it in the top 15% of companies assessed.

April 21, 2025

Bio-based

TotalEnergies Corbion and Useon Partner to Accelerate Industrial Adoption of PLA Foam Technology

TotalEnergies Corbion

EPLA is a sustainable, plant-based foam material made from Luminy PLA as an alternative to expanded polystyrene.

April 21, 2025