Plastics/resins

What’s next for the rigid plastic packaging market?

A new study tracks market opportunities for rigid plastic packaging as it is challenged by flexible formats and growing concern over sustainability.

November 4, 2017

Recycling: Page 193

Containers

Eco Pack Systems: Produce containers

This shipping container, made of food grade material, reduces shipping costs, improves hygiene, and enables customizable point of purchase branding.

October 31, 2017

Sustainability

Marks & Spencer, Nestle, and Mondelez embrace circular economy

Major European CPGs are striving to improve, but infrastructure gaps and poor recycling rates hamper efforts.

October 30, 2017

Home

Delivery, e-commerce impact foodservice packaging trends

Consumers’ ‘nearly limitless’ food delivery options are impacting how foodservice packaging must perform, explains the Foodservice Packaging Institute’s 2017 Trends Report.

October 30, 2017

Containers

Winery photographs bring Four Winds brand to life

A rebrand for Four Winds Vineyard’s wine labels uses photos taken at the winery, depicting simple items—sheets, dandelions, and pinwheels among them—blowing in the wind.

October 28, 2017

Home

Machinery builder weighs in on sustainability

If you really want disruptive solutions, you must include machinery builders in the conversation, says Dr. Carstens Weiss from Bosch Packaging Technology.

October 27, 2017

Recycling

Really challenging the status quo

Challenging conventional wisdom, The Waste Policy Officer for the European Environmental Bureau, Piotr Barczak, is down on packaging as a means to limit food waste.

October 27, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Rubbish in, rubbish out

Europe’s circular economy must start with smart package design, says Coca-Cola.

October 26, 2017

Sustainability

The problem with plastic packaging in Europe

How to address an industrial system inherently reluctant to change?

October 25, 2017

Sustainability

Reinventing plastics in Europe and around the world

Plastics are far too valuable to be incinerated or dumped in a landfill, so we must rethink their role in our society. Single-use, disposable plastic packaging is no longer viable.

October 25, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

A Bounty of Options for Biopolymers

Since PLA made its commercial-scale debut in 2002, resin suppliers have raced to develop a range of biopolymers that decouple plastics from fossil fuels, reduce GHGs, and offer viable end-of-life solutions.

October 22, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Coalition to harmonize testing protocols for recyclability

Three international organizations have joined to form the Global Plastics Outreach Alliance with the goal of creating a Global Plastics Protocol for recyclability.

October 19, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Butler Automatic expands sales team

The new team includes industry veterans focused on global sales and application support.

October 19, 2017