Contract Packaging

A passion for packaging

There are some people in the packaging industry who make an indelible impression due to their passion for packaging.

November 14, 2018

Sustainable Packaging: Page 235

Sustainable Packaging

London supermarket introduces Plastic Free Zones

Supermarket creates a plastic-free aisle where more than 1,700 products—including meat, cheese, and fresh fruits and vegetables—are packaged in materials other than plastic.

November 14, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

An e-comm first from P&G

The Tide Eco-Box is the first product launch from P&G Fabric Care’s eCommerce Innovation Group. ‘We have designed a package eComm-back.’

November 14, 2018

Flexibles

Now Plastics: Recycled PET films

Now Plastics offers post-consumer recycled (PCR) PET films made from 60 to 90% PCR PET resin. They are designed with a high content of recycled PET materials that have been sanitized and reconfigured into film grade resin, making them environmentally sensitive and 100% compliant with sustainability requirements.

November 14, 2018

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Krones acquires MHT Holding AG

Krones acquired MHT Holding AG (MHT), Hochheim, Germany.

November 8, 2018

Flexibles

FlexPack Recovery Challenge open for submissions

The competition invites innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups to submit new ideas for reprocessing technologies capable of beneficially recovering multi-material flexible packaging waste.

November 7, 2018

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Sustainability in Packaging Europe

A series of articles reporting on the Sustainability in Packaging Europe 2018 conference from Barcelona, Spain.

November 5, 2018

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Windmöller & Hölscher joins CEFLEX

Germany-based Windmöller & Hölscher joined European initiative CEFLEX to promote circular economy in flexible packaging.

November 5, 2018

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CPGs strategize on tepid recycling adoption

Packaging World talks with vegan-friendly cosmetics brand Love Beauty and Planet and non-profit Recycle Across America about the solutions and strategies for closing the plastics loop and preventing waste from going into oceans.

November 4, 2018

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Innovative approach to shelf-differentiating folding cartons

Design + production + recycled materials support brand goals

November 2, 2018

Recycling

Packaging in South Africa: a Hall of Fame perspective

Just welcomed into the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame at PACK EXPO International 2018, former World Packaging Organisation President Keith Pearson shines light on Africa’s packaging market.

November 1, 2018

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Pretium Packaging to target specialty beverage market

Pretium Packaging is positioning its amber-colored 64-oz SureHandle PET bottle as an alternative for glass beer growlers, cold brew coffee.

October 30, 2018

Flexibles

A holistic view of flexible packaging in a sustainable world

Alison Keane, President and CEO of the Flexible Packaging Assn. describes the sustainability benefits of flexible packaging.

October 29, 2018