On 5 June, the European Commission published a Commission Notice providing further clarity about the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in practice. We take a closer look at the document to understand its requirements in detail, including the current status of PFAS restrictions, the…
In this Innovation Spotlight, Dow outlines how its extrusion coating portfolio aims to support recyclability requirements and regulatory readiness, and how its collaboration with RDM Group demonstrates how lightweight polymer coatings can extend the use of fibre-based packaging into applications…
The European Union’s European Investment Fund (EIF) has invested €50 million in Infinity Recycling’s Circular Plastics Fund, an impact fund that invests in companies developing new processes for the advanced recycling of plastics.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has announced an investment into carbon conversion research, which will explore how CO2 captured from the atmosphere could be upcycled to create ethylene, a key component in plastic bottles.
Henkel and CCL Label have won an AWA (Alexander Watson Associates) Award for a pack that uses EcoFloat – a sleeve technology designed to improve the recycling of PET bottle bodies.
Penny Black has received £1.5 million in additional seed funding from AGFA and ninepointfive for its e-commerce marketing SaaS tool – a solution currently utilised by a range of brands for personalisation campaigns in product deliveries.
In our latest Finalist Interview for the Sustainability Awards, Graphic Packaging spoke to us about its Skip cartonboard pack for laundry detergent capsules, developed for Unilever and nominated in the commercialised Recyclable Packaging category.
Domino Printing Sciences has launched its N610i-R digital retrofit module, designed to incorporate digital printing technology into existing hybrid printing flexographic lines and optimise capital, waste, and space.
McKinsey has laid out three potential approaches to tackling rPET shortages on the US market and meeting increasing demand for recycled content in packaging – increasing supply, ensuring access, and designing for circularity.
Two of the world’s largest packaging producers, Smurfit Kappa and WestRock, are discussing the key terms of a potential merger to create Smurfit WestRock – a company that would reportedly be worth around $20bn.
A new position paper from Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) Europe is calling upon the European Union to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% by 2040 and lays out ten principles to achieve this, including the phasing out of fossil fuels and an evidence-based approach to carbon removals.
Lecta will showcase a range of sustainability-minded facestock products, release liners, solutions for pressure-sensitive applications, and more at LabelExpo 2023.
Five grants issued by The Recycling Partnership’s Aluminium Recycling Initiative claim to have captured three times more aluminium than originally predicted – apparently capturing an additional 4.1 million new pounds of aluminium annually and avoiding over 18,750 metric tons of greenhouse gas…
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to CEO and founder of Cellulotech Romain Metivet about its ‘green chemistry process’ for paper packaging barriers, nominated in the pre-commercialised Renewables category.
