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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The Rapid Interview with Aluflexpack
In the latest instalment of our Rapid Interview series, Aluflexpack CEO Johannes Steurer runs us through the positives of utilizing aluminium in premium circular flexible packaging and barrier solutions.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Diagnosing the state of sustainability in packaging and industry motivation
Diagnosing the state of sustainability in packaging and industry motivation
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Adhesives perspectives on the journey to circularity
Bostik’s Sylvie Despret assesses the impact of adhesives in enabling sustainability advancements in packaging, the latest technologies on the market, with the example of the Wash-off PSA Labels, and Laminating adhesives for flexible packaging, and, in the context of latest market trends and…
Sustainable Packaging Summit: The flexible packaging transformation – shifting the mindset beyond expectations and obligations
The shift towards sustainable solutions in flexible packaging is no longer a choice but an imperative driven by legislation, costs, and evolving consumer expectations. In this field of tensions, argues Wipak’s Susan Janssen, it is even more important to take everybody on board on that path,…
Metsä Spring invests in conversion of dry pulp fibre into biomaterial for transparent flexibles
Metsä Group’s innovation arm, Metsä Spring, is leading a €1 million seed funding round in Swedish start-up FineCell to help develop and plan a demo production facility for its technology, which converts dry pulp fibre into added-value biomaterial.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Circular Foodpack project update
Fraunhofer IVV’s Nelly Freitag provides updates on the European Horizon 2020 project Circular Foodpack.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Pioneering liquid membrane substitution for packaging applications in a Net Zero era
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Pioneering liquid membrane substitution for packaging applications in a Net Zero era
Sustainable Packaging Summit: How Kraft-Heinz uses collaboration to drive innovation
Innovation leaders from Kraft Heinz share their learnings from the sustainable packaging innovation process, in particular how leveraging internal and external partnerships can accelerate bringing innovation to market.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Nano-futures - FlexFunction2Sustain and ESNA
This presentation reviews the work of the FlexFunction2Sustain project, with the goal of creating an Open Innovation Test Bed for nano-functionalisation technologies that enable sustainable and smart plastics and paper-based products, and introduces the new European Sustainable Nanotechnology…
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Innovative Biobased Packaging - from research to market?
Insights into the latest research developments and on the upscaling of novel biobased, recyclable packaging materials for food contact.
Sustainable Packaging Summit: The secrets of open innovation
Collaborators from the distinct worlds of of brand owner (Beiersdorf’s Janina Zippel), investor (Fredric Petit from Emerald) and start-up (DePoly’s Samantha Anderson) discuss the teachable insights from their partnership on how to harness open innovation.
Smurfit Kappa replaces nylon bag-in-box film with recyclable PE
Smurfit Kappa has unveiled a recyclable polyethylene film to replace nylon alternatives in bag-in-box packaging.