Sustainable Packaging

Making sense of LCA in packaging

The key to truly ‘more sustainable’ packaging design is to begin with a strategy. With a vision and goals specific to your company, you can successfully apply tools like LCA to make better design and purchasing decisions.

June 29, 2011

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Recycling

New developments in holography find apps in packaging

Here are some of the latest developments in holography from around the world, including one eye-catcher and another that puts the seal on an effective anti-counterfeit strategy.

June 29, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Summer Garden Food Unveils the 'Secret Sauce'

Summer Garden Food's unusual approach integrates a green manufacturing facility with an efficient filling and packaging line— boosting sales by more than 15%.

June 29, 2011

Sustainability

PepsiCo's challenge to Coke's reigning PlantBottle

In the soft drink wars, a new battle is being waged.

June 29, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

The crop waste buzz

Using crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock is suddenly hot.

June 29, 2011

Sustainability

Latest advances in PLA bio-resins for thermoformed packaging

Technology brief from Plastic Ingenuity explains the latest advances in using PLA bioplastics for most thermoformed food packaging applications. Covers advances in heat deflection, typical cost, capacity, clarity, and brittleness.

June 27, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

Twist on molded fiber yields smooth surfaces on both sides of a thermoform

Read about Plastic Ingenuity's use of the Type 3 molded fiber process, which creates a strong, well-defined part with smooth surfaces on both sides of a thermoformed part. Feedstock derived from newspaper, waste paperboard, office paper scrap.

June 27, 2011

Sustainability

Beyond the package: Custom thermoformer adopts several unique environmental practices

Read about Plastic Ingenuity's sustainable manufacturing and facilities, including storm water management, solar energy usage, in-plant recycling, heat recapture, and water re-use.

June 27, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

SPS 2012 scheduled for April

After a highly successful first run, Greener Package and AIChE’s Institute for Sustainability will collaborate on the second annual Sustainable Packaging Symposium.

June 27, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Global biopolymers market expected to grow to 2.4 billion lb by 2016

Bioplastics market is predicted to grow at a five-year CAGR of 22%, despite current drawbacks of high prices and lack of composting infrastructure.

June 24, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Amgen publishes initial sustainability report

Packaging is part of the company’s environmental thrust, but so far no packaging specifics are reported.

June 23, 2011

Sustainability

Placon opens $14 million recycling facility for post-consumer bottles and thermoforms

Placon Corporation, a thermoformer and plastic sheet extruder, has announced the opening of its EcoStar® closed-loop recycling facility to become one of the first thermoforming companies in the food and consumer packaging industry to implement its own in-house recycling to process post-consumer bottles as well as thermoforms.

June 20, 2011

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Wire coil clamshell package wins DuPont award

Thermoformed medical device package for Arthrex’s surgical wire wins Innovation Award for Perfecseal.

June 15, 2011