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.
After much anticipation, the winners of the Sustainability Awards 2025 – the “Nobel prize” for sustainable packaging innovations – have been announced!
At its facility in Limmared, Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe – an operating business of Ardagh Group – is using a hydrogen electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen for melting glass, apparently saving 70 tonnes of CO2 since October.
Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe (AGP-Europe) claims that the glass bottles produced at its NextGen Furnace have saved around 18,000 tonnes of CO2 since the start of 2024, apparently achieving a consistent CO2 emissions reduction of 64%.
Ardagh Glass GmbH has announced that the large-scale NextGen hybrid furnace under construction at its Obernkirchen facility is close to completion.
Ardagh Metal Packaging’s H!GHEND printing technology is being applied to Heineken Enterprise’s Pélican craft beer cans to encourage consumers to flip the pack and optimise the drink’s flavour.
Ardagh Glass GmbH has announced that its ‘NextGen’ hybrid furnace – anticipated to reduce CO2 emissions at its Obernkirchen glass production facility by as much as 60% through a transition to renewable energy – is under construction.
Ardagh Glass Packaging is building an ’Efficient Furnace’ set to minimise greenhouse gas emissions in the production of glass.
Ardagh Glass Packaging – Europe has invested in two water reduction projects based in Sweden and Poland in a move anticipated to cut down on its water usage by a third – contributing towards its targeted 26% decrease in water intensity by 2030.
Absolut Vodka has signed an agreement with Ardagh Group to facilitate large-scale production of its vodka bottles at a partly hydrogen energy-fired glass furnace, contributing towards Absolut’s goal of complete CO2 neutrality by 2030.
In January 2022, Dassault Systèmes, Ardagh Group, and EXXERGY will commence ‘virtual twin’ trials to test the use of an innovative coating technology that reportedly increases the strength and reduces the weight of glass bottles.
The winners of the Sustainability Awards 2020 have been unveiled in a digital event.
With our 2020 Sustainability Awards just three days away, we spoke with one of the finalists, Ardagh Group, about its innovative method for giving a new life to glass that is rejected during the recycling process.