Sustainable Packaging

Spirited Sustainable Packaging

Spirits company Diageo reports on the state of its “Spirit of Progress 2030” sustainability program, and their global ventures to increase sustainable packaging for their brands.

November 4, 2021

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Sustainability

Eco-Products Earns Certification for its Plant-Based Packaging

Eco-Products Inc.

Eco-Products earned the GreenScreen Certified™ Silver designation for its Vanguard line of compostable plates and containers made from sugarcane.

November 4, 2021

Robotics

Universal Robots’ Cobots Educational Training Programs Endorsed by ARM, Ohio Dept. of Education

Universal Robots, part of Teradyne Robotics

These endorsements of Universal Robots’ products and educational curriculum emphasize the importance of UR’s collaborative robots (cobots) in today’s manufacturing processes and in classrooms.

November 4, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Recycled Content Packaging Innovations

ThePackHub

See five examples of innovative recyclable content packaging from ThePackHub’s October Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

November 4, 2021

Flexible packaging

Ecolean Works Toward Circular Economy

Ecolean

Ecolean is working to optimize the entire lifecycle of the raw materials it uses in its packages—from production to end-of-life package recycling—towards the circular use of resources.

November 3, 2021

Sustainability

Silgan Dispensing Receives Gold Sustainability Rating

Silgan Dispensing

Silgan Dispensing received EcoVadis’ Gold sustainability rating for environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance.

November 3, 2021

Robotics

AAA20 Group Offers Subscription-based Robotic Solutions

AAA20 Group, LLC

AAA20 Group, LLC's RaaS (Robotics as a Service) is designed to help integrate collaborative robotic automation in small to mid-size companies.

November 3, 2021

Flexible packaging

ProMach Acquires CL&D Graphics and CL&D Digital

ProMach

The addition of CL&D expands ProMach’s portfolio of flexible and rigid packaging systems and strengthens its ability to provide complete machinery and material solutions for a variety of packaging applications.

November 3, 2021

Cartons and boxes

PPC Announces Winners of the 2021 North American Paperboard Packaging Competition

Paperboard Packaging Council

The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) announced the top winners of its 78th annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition.

November 2, 2021

Sustainability

Graphic Packaging Completes Acquisition of AR Packaging Group

Graphic Packaging International

Graphic Packaging Holding Co., a vertically-integrated provider of sustainable fiber-based consumer packaging solutions, completed the acquisition of AR Packaging Group AB, Europe’s second largest producer of fiber-based consumer packaging.

November 2, 2021

Sustainability

Honeywell Introduces Plastics Recycling Technology to Drive a Circular Plastics Economy

Honeywell

Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology can reduce the need for fossil fuels in the creation of virgin plastics while enabling hundreds of cycles of recycling, with the goal of enabling a circular economy for plastics.

November 2, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Meal Kit Brand Tests Edible, Dissolvable Flexible Packaging

Meal kit pioneer Gousto Recipe Box trialed a pea protein-based film that exhibits many of the barrier properties that plastic offers. But instead of having to be discarded, the edible film dissolves harmlessly in hot water as the meal is cooked.

November 2, 2021

Protective/transport packaging

Pinnacle Packaging Offers New Shipping Service

Pinnacle Packaging

Pinnacle Packaging is adding a new and secure custom packing, crating, and shipping option, ideal for shipping large, heavy, awkward, fragile, or high-value items, to its catalog of goods and services.

November 2, 2021