Sustainable Packaging: Page 277

Sustainable Packaging

How2Compost label launched

The on-package label informs consumers that packaging is certified compostable, offers direction on appropriate composting, and includes the How2Compost URL.

November 26, 2016

Recycling

Millennials and Sustainable Packaging Go Hand in Hand

The Foodservice Packaging Institute’s latest trends report finds common threads throughout the industry, such as the impact and correlation between Millennials and sustainable packaging.

November 21, 2016

Sustainability

Styrene-Free Medical Device Trays Improve Durability and Product Protection

Eastman’s Eastalite resin material is extruded by Pacur into sheet that's thermoformed by Plastics Ingenuity into trays that yield multiple benefits for medical device manufacturers.

November 18, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Frain Industries releases 2015 sustainability results

Frain Industries shares results from its “Commitment to Sustainability” initiative.

November 18, 2016

Flexibles

An impact-resistant pouch film also provides better clarity

The SealTOUGH family of coextruded films from Jindal Films can replace sealant layers for equal strength at lower gauges, targeted to replace sealant layers in a lamination or single layers in mono-web applications.

November 17, 2016

Home

Proposed fee for carry-out bags in Michigan

Packaging is at the center of a political face-off

November 15, 2016

Material handling

Wroclaw Hospital Safeguards Cytotoxic Drug Transport

NFC-enabled data loggers, isothermal containers help monitor and maintain temperature-sensitive drugs during transport for the Independent Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, Poland.

November 15, 2016

Filling/capping, dry

EatingWell brings VSP frozen entrées to the table

Using vacuum skin packaging, new EatingWell frozen entrées deliver preservative-free recipes and visual transparency to the fresh ingredients in the freezer section.

November 13, 2016

Labels

Cardboard sleeve for dairy cup enhances sustainability

An Austrian company that has just opened a U.S. plant in Pittston, PA, Greiner brings to the market plastic cups, primarily for dairy, with multiple decorating options. It's unique K3 label adds a cardboard sleeve to the cup, for plastic lightweighting, recyclability, and enhanced marketing opportunities.

November 9, 2016

Flexibles

An impact-resistant film also provides better clarity

The SealTOUGH family of coextruded films can replace sealant layers for equal strength at lower gauges.

November 8, 2016

Home

3D cold formable paper replaces plastic packaging

Billerudkorsnäs' FibreForm, the first 3D cold formable paper, enables up to 10 times the embossing depth compared to traditional papers.

November 7, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Pregis launches Easypack paper-based protective packaging equipment

Aware that e-commerce is more important than ever and only looking to increase in importance to brand owners, Pregis is launching a new line of paper-based protective packaging.

November 7, 2016