Sustainability

Xampla Welcomes Former P&G Chemist to Team

The deep tech company has grown its team by more than 25% in the last year, with Dr. Francys Fernandez Zavarce the latest recruit.

February 27, 2024

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Plastics/resins

MRP Unveils New Customer Care Team

MRP Solutions

The completely new customer service experience is tailored specifically to meet your needs as an MRP customer.

February 22, 2024

Containers & Closures

Mono-material Cheese Pack Launch Coincides with Recycling Center

The PP mono-material pack provides high barriers against oxygen and water vapor, keeping the product fresh on the shelf. It also protects the cheese with high puncture resistance. And printability allows the brand and recycling messages to pop.

February 21, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Rumpke and Eastman Join Forces to Expand Recycling of PET Waste

Eastman

Recycler Rumpke will collect hard-to-recycle plastics and feed them to Eastman's molecular recycling process to create virgin-quality materials and boost circularity across industries.

February 20, 2024

Containers & Closures

Accessible Lidding Your Partner Won't Have to Open For You

Traditional jarred products on a store shelf require more than 40 in-lb of torque to open, with some requiring more than 50 in-lb of torque. With the EEASY Lid, it only takes an average of 9 in-lb of torque to open a jar.

February 16, 2024

Sustainability

An Innovation Snapshot from The Packaging Conference

The Packaging Conference features discussions on new packaging technologies, with sessions on bioplastics, digital can printing, and a circular solution for all plastics, among others.

February 13, 2024

Sustainability

Xampla Secures Funding to Fight Plastic Pollution

Xampla

Natural materials provider Xampla has received $17.6M to fuel growth of Morro brand, which aims to replace single-use plastics with sustainable solutions.

February 12, 2024

Sustainability

Specright and How2Recycle to Eliminate Recycling Confusion with Clearer Packaging Labels

Specright

The partnership aims to leverage digitized specification data to create clear, accurate packaging and labeling recycling instructions.

February 9, 2024

Flexible packaging

NBi FlexPack Launches with Packaging Solutions Made in the United States

NBi FlexPack

New U.S. manufacturer offers custom, sustainable flexible pouches for diverse industries, including food and cannabis.

February 8, 2024

Flexible packaging

Berry Global, Glatfelter Merge to Create $3.6 Billion Specialty Materials Company

Berry Global Group, Inc.

Berry spins off and merges its Health, Hygiene, & Specialties unit with Glatfelter, forming a new publicly traded company in the specialty materials industry.

February 7, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Recycling Summit Set for California

PMMI

Connect and collaborate across every segment of the circular supply chain at Packaging World's Packaging Recycling Summit at the JW Marriott in Anaheim September 16-18, 2024.

February 6, 2024

Containers

CJ Biomaterials’ scPHA Added to FDA’s Inventory of Food Contact Substances

CJ Biomaterials’ semi-crystalline polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymer PHACT S1000P now can be used in the manufacture of food-contact materials sold in the United States.

February 1, 2024

Containers & Closures

Sprite Gets Naked, for Now

Coca Cola strips the labels from its Sprite on-the-go rPET bottles in the company’s first U.K. trial of label-less packaging.

January 29, 2024