Sustainability

Indorama Ventures, Evertis Collaborate on PET Food Tray Packaging

Indorama Ventures Public Co. and Evertis are collaborating to use flake from recycled PET trays to produce PET film suitable for food packaging trays.

April 4, 2023

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PMMI News

PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023 Registration Open

PMMI

PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023 will be the largest in its history and this year’s most comprehensive packaging & processing show in North America.

April 3, 2023

Sustainability

PlasticFree Platform Empowers Designers

A new online platform from A Plastic Planet contains hundreds of case histories, a library of alternative materials, and other tools to educate designers on plastic-free solutions.

March 31, 2023

Flexible packaging

Pros and Cons of Mono and Multi-Layer Materials for Packaging

This video looks at the pros and cons of mono and multi-layer materials as a sustainable packaging choice, and provides examples and descriptions of each.

March 29, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Southeastern Grocers Pilots World’s First Autonomous Microfactory

The new ice manufacturing plant in Jacksonville, Fla., is centrally managed by an AI-powered software platform and uses robotics for 100% of production labor. The resulting product is packed in 100% recycle-ready packaging.

March 30, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Column: Entering A Collaborative Age in Packaging

In recent months, collaborations are evolving from time-limited, two-party partnerships into perpetual, multi-stakeholder coalitions that look like microcosms of entire supply chains.

March 30, 2023

Flexible packaging

SBTi Approves Atlantic Packaging’s Net-Zero Target

Atlantic Packaging

Atlantic Packaging received SBTi’s approval on its science-based targets for reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2046, becoming the first North American packaging company with an approved net-zero target.

March 29, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Sustaining the Effort to Update Green Guides

Years ago, when I first read about the concept of “sustainability,” I teased that it was too vague and had too many meanings to too many people to be useful. Today, I am not sure things have improved much.

March 29, 2023

Contract Packaging

What’s New From ENGAGE

The event welcomes in a new president and research depicts shift in sustainability and other industry trends.

March 28, 2023

Sustainability

Colorado Recycler Launches Pickup Service for Hard-To-Recycle Waste

TerraCycle Inc.

HBS Trash Services, in partnership withTerraCycle, launched Zero Waste Bags by HBS, a home recycling pilot for hard-to-recycle items.

March 28, 2023

Podcasts

Six-Part unPACKed Sustainability Series: Pt. 3 - Paper

The unPACKed podcast brings paper to the forefront with PW's Anne Marie Mohan and Matt Reynolds.

March 27, 2023

Containers

Nerds Candy Container Offers a New ‘Twist’ on a Classic Favorite

Said to be a ‘first-of-its-kind design for the candy industry,’ the new Twist & Mix candy container comprises a round, five-compartment base and a rotating top for maximum flavor mixing.

March 27, 2023

Flexible packaging

Toppan Named CDP Supplier Engagement Leader

TOPPAN Holdings Inc.

Toppan was recognized for the second consecutive year as a Supplier Engagement Leader in the 2022 Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) conducted by CDP, an international non-profit organization focused on environmental disclosure.

March 27, 2023