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…
TOMRA and Gualapack have been working together to prove the recyclability of Gualapack’s monomaterial PP spouted pouch through all stages of treatment of a DKR rigid PP waste stream.
ReZorce®, devised by UK-based company Zotefoams is a mono-material HDPE recyclable barrier food and beverage packaging that sets out to be an alternative for multilayer beverage cartons.
SP Scientific Products (SP) has announced a new approach to product packaging with its new task-specific packaging that the company says is designed to enhance productivity, alleviate labour costs, and reduce environmental impact.
Sorting and recycling plays a key role on the path towards sustainability and circularity. Mithu Mohren, SVP, Marketing & Communications, Circular Economy at Tomra, discusses what goes into creating a holistic waste management system and closing the loop, the importance of global collaboration as…
Flexible electronics developer PragmatIC Semiconductor has announced it is working on an Innovate UK, Manufacturing Made Smarter project to increase the quality of plastic recyclate.
In this comment piece, John Blake, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner Supply Chain Practice, looks at the potential and wider impacts of Amazon's frustration free packaging programme.
In the latest of our Sustainability Awards finalists interview series, we take a closer look at the Brookfarm Roll ‘n’ Recycle Pouch from Australian company O F Packaging – a 100% kerbside recyclable high-barrier stand-up pouch that has been nominate
The portfolio of cup filling and sealing machines from Syntegon subsidiaries Ampack GmbH, Germany, and Osgood Industries, LLC, USA has been extended with the new LFS filling machine for the dairy and food industry.
The limits of what is possible with digital printing are constantly growing. Victoria Hattersley spoke to Yair Gellis, head of HP Indigo global flexible packaging, about the industry’s continued move towards digitalization.
The next of our Sustainability Awards 2021 finalist interviews puts the spotlight on Amcor's Eco-Tite® R PVdC-free shrink bag, which has been nominated in our Pre-commercialized Innovation category.
At Fachpack in Nuremberg from September 28 to 30, ILLIG Maschinenbau will be demonstrating how the production of all-paper blisters from recycled cardboard with different designs and contents is possible on a "single, flexible" packaging system.
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