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…
Our weekly packaging highlights, featuring a conceptual green design for green fingered applications, an acquisition with big implications for rigid plastics globally, and a German collaboration to explore potential for (edible?) seaweed packaging.
Leyton Hardwick, founder and creative director at Drink Works, explores the growing trend of NOLO (no and low alcohol), and what it means for pack design.
Using insight driven design as a tool for innovation, this four-part series showcases a range of future focused concept designs looking to reduce the negative environmental impact of packaging.
In today’s shopping trends, customers, particularly millennials, are looking for not only the product but also the personal connection that products and brands have to offer.
Ricardo De Genova, Vice President, Strategic Marketing and R&D at PaperSolenis, explores what challenges paper has to overcome in order to be able to provide products such as bottles, disposable cups and ready-meal containers.
Thanks to advances in personalised medicine, treatments are becoming even more effective. However, without intelligent packaging solutions, this revolution in the pharmaceutical industry would not be possible.
Is your adhesive circular? Is it vegan? Does it add value? Minuscule in relative volume terms but crucial in ensuring the viability of a package, adhesives are often a central consideration in the key challenges that packaging is asked to solve.
Barbara Operschall from the Austrian company SpeechCode explains to Elisabeth Skoda how a simple on-pack code can give consumers valuable product information via their smartphones without the need to be connected to the internet.
Entries to the most important international sustainable packaging competition have smashed last year's record by 60%. As the expert judging panel gets judging, here is the complete list of submissions to the 2019 edition.
Christian Treitel, VP marketing & business strategy at Bosch Packaging Technology, talked to Tim Sykes about the intersections of flexibility, output, sustainability and connectivity driving of R&D in packaging lines today.
In our regular guest columnist slot that challenges received wisdom, Marcel Verhaaf (creative director at Anthem Benelux) considers the risks of judging physical design using digital imagery.
