Sustainable Packaging

New plant goes from PET bale to rPET packaging

New facility with an 80,000,000-lb annual capacity sorts, cleans, and purifies PET waste to produce rPET rollstock, thermoformed containers, and molded bottle preforms.

October 21, 2018

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Sustainable Packaging

Is your packaging truly sustainable?

Many beverage cups and packaging for other foods turns out to be non-recyclable.

October 16, 2018

Plastics/resins

PTI launches first-of-its-kind PET bottles for e-commerce

The Dromo PET bottle system is designed specifically for liquid or semi-viscous products sold through e-commerce.

October 15, 2018

Reusable/Returnable

Ametek Mocon launches oxygen permeation analyzer

The OX-TRAN 2/40 measures oxygen transmission rate of whole packages for food, beverage and healthcare products.

October 14, 2018

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October 11, 2018

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Reusable Packaging Association announces winners of 2018 Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev and DS Smith Plastics were winners in its 2018 Excellence in Reusable Packaging award program.

October 11, 2018

Material handling

Prescription home delivery shippers go green

OptumRx switches from EPS to cotton-based recyclable, resusable, compostable, and biodegradable insulating pads for its temperature-sensitive medication home delivery packaging.

October 9, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Breakthrough recyclable film technology developed by Amcor

Amcor develops a platform of flexible film products that can handle a range of ambient medium-barrier, ambient high-barrier, and retort high-barrier applications.

October 2, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

100% of Coca-Cola Amatil packaging to be recyclable by 2025

This includes bottles, cans, plastic wrap, glass, and paperboard, says the Australian-based Coca-Cola manufacturer/distributor.

October 1, 2018

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Qimarox simplifies integration with PackML

This Dutch machine builder specializing in palletizing modules and vertical conveyors made it even easier for its equipment to integrate into existing packaging lines by incorporating the PackML language.

September 28, 2018

Operational Excellence

Reuseable shippers gain traction in pharmaceutical logistics

The growth of rented and reusable shipper systems for the global transportation of pharmaceutical payloads was the focus of a Sept. 24 Cool Chain Assn. presentation in Brussels.

September 25, 2018

PMMI News

PACK EXPO is fast approaching

2018's largest packaging trade show less than three weeks away.

September 24, 2018

Protective/transport packaging

Chinese supplements company keeps label release liners out of landfill

By participating in the Avery Dennison Liner Recycling Program, By-Health Co. Ltd. diverts more than 100 metric tons of label release liner, which is recycled into new products.

September 22, 2018