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…
The number of polymers in packaging means raising recycling rates in a single collection stream demands better identification / sorting of plastics. Increasing interest and investment focuses on two technologies: UV tracers and digital watermarking
Sealed Air presented a range of solutions at Fachpack, helping companies address the operational challenges they face in a constantly changing marketplace.
Charlie Ahern, general manager at aluminum packaging supplier Advanta, explores the different options of food preservation and their drawbacks and benefits.
Ian Haynes, Director of Excellis Europe explains how the company’s unique approach to enabling collaboration between Parallel Importers is helping simplify the transition to serialisation post EU-FMD.
As the world wrestles with the relationship of packaging to the environment, Smurfit Kappa has been rethinking its own engagement with sustainability. Arco Berkenbosch speaks about the challenges and SK's new, radically outward-facing approach
Noel Morrin, Executive Vice President Sustainability at Stora Enso, makes a bold statement: Anything made from fossil-fuel today can be made from a tree tomorrow.
Imagine walking into a duty-free store at an airport in a different country to buy something, and instead of struggling with an array of translation apps or using sign language with the storekeeper, all you do is scan a label with your smartphone
Livetech selected Rockwell Automation solutions to build a secondary packaging line for Galbusera-Tre Marie, an Italian brand with a long history in the bakery industry and with a commitment to preserving the craft-made quality of its cakes.
Global designers unite to draw attention to, and create debate around, the issues of health warnings and marketing restrictions on packaging, and whether there are more effective solutions to change consumer behaviour.
Viktor Puzakov, Global Marketing Manager at Videojet Technologies, looks at what shapes the beverage purchasing decisions of millennials and its relation to coding and marking.
