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…
Stefano Rossi has been CEO of DS Smith’s packaging division since 2014 and has some 35 years of experience working in the paper industry. He chats to Packaging Europe’s Tim Sykes about key changes and developments in the industry, challenges the sector faces and strategies to address these, and…
Stora Enso has successfully completed its acquisition of De Jong Packaging Group and aims to further expand its portfolio into applications such as renewable packaging and e-commerce solutions at a combined corrugated packaging capacity of 2,000 million m2.
Stora Enso has acquired Dutch packaging company De Jong Packaging Group in the hopes of strengthening its European market presence in corrugated packaging.
As fibre based materials increasingly compete in plastic-dominated niches how do we compare environmental footprints? Tim Sykes spoke to Smurfit Kappa’s Arco Berkenbosch & Jurgita Girzadiene about novel applications and a new approach to LCA
Stora Enso, a global provider of paper-based packaging solutions, argues that its new AvantForte kraftliner meets brand owners’ need for high-performing, safe and plastic-free packaging.
Smurfit Kappa has launched a new “Design for Help” portfolio of products with the aim of helping to alleviate some of the challenges being experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last autumn Smurfit Kappa launched its bold and open-ended Better Planet Packaging initiative. Tim Sykes met Arco Berkenbosch at Smurfit Kappa’s Global Experience Centre at Schiphol to find out how the sustainability brief looks one year on
Smurfit Kappa’s Gérard van den Boogaard discusses the mind-boggling array of variables presented by e-commerce, overturning almost all of the suppositions that have served logistics and tertiary packaging well until now.
