Siegwerk launches ink that also acts as oxygen barrier
Siegwerk has launched a new white printing ink that also provides an oxygen barrier – an innovation that aims to combine two layers into one.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Reviewing innovation in circular flexibles
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Reviewing innovation in circular flexibles
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Design-for-recycling vs recycling realities
Recycling expert Julian Thielen explores the disconnect between the capabilities of sorting plants built for multiwall packaging and the new generations of downgauged and mono substrates. Highlighting challenges for sorting and recycling that arise from packaging design, Julian points to possible…
A look back at the year for corrugated and folding cartons
2023 has been a bumpy year for businesses and consumers alike, with rising inflation and interest rates, and a cost-of-living crisis. Against this backdrop, how have the European corrugated and folding cartons sectors faired? Neil Osment, Managing Director of paper packaging industry analysts NOA,…
Redsmith Distillery unveils re-brand and move to 100% recycled glass packaging
Redsmith Distillery is launching gin in bottles that are made from 100% recycled glass and are reportedly 20% lighter than its previous bottles.
Blue Ocean Closures receives investment from new co-owner Rottneros
Market pulp supplier Rottneros AB is investing in and becoming a co-owner of Blue Ocean Closures, with its sights now set on the further development of fibre-based packaging materials.
Looking to the future: AI in production and logistics
Advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) have made headlines and sparked both excitement and concern - but what are its roles and applications in the packaging industry? Frances Butler reports.
RecyClass and EuCertPlast form combined plastics recycling process certification
EuCertPlast and RecyClass are combining their audit schemes for plastics recyclers to form the RecyClass Recycling Process Certification, a move hoped to build trust in recycling claims going forward.
Thin, lightweight thermoforming film from SÜDPACK targets fresh and frozen fish
SÜDPACK’s new Multifol Extreme base film is set to offer thinner and more lightweight thermoforming packaging in vacuum and MAP applications for fish products; it will reportedly facilitate lower costs and emissions across the value chain.
Recyclable flexible packaging with Ultiloc 5003 - a promising component for mono-material packaging
In this edition of the Spotlight, Sekisui tells us about Ultiloc 5003, its component for mono-material packaging.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Driving fibre-based packaging circularity - The 4evergreen industry toolbox
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Driving fibre-based packaging circularity - The 4evergreen industry toolbox
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Cartonboard: Circularity, leadership and responsibility
ProCarton’s Winfried Mühling shares a fibre-based approach to what it takes to be a leader in circularity in the context of the EU Green Deal, emphasising the need for cross-industry and cross-substrate collaboration. Winfried also shares results of latest consumer studies.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Compositional analysis of household waste
CEFLEX and Petcore have collaborated in large-scale research analysing the composition of post-consumer waste. Dana Mosora (CEFLEX) and Raphaël Jaumotte (Petcore) unpack the implications for efforts to drive up recycling rates in plastic packaging.