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…
Packaging machine specialist Hugo Beck has launched the flowpack R, a compactly built, hygienically designed horizontal flowpack machine, which they say is capable of reaching speeds of up 300 cycles per minute.
BASF, SABIC and SÜDPACK have collaborated to design a pack for a new line of sausages, in which two-thirds of the raw material used for the packaging comes from plastic waste.
Made from a 100% paper-based combination of Hexacomb and corrugated, Smurfit Kappa says that its new Thermo Box product can keep frozen food at temperatures similar to expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes.
Nestlé is piloting reusable and refillable dispensers for petcare and soluble coffee with the aim of giving consumers a flexible shopping experience that is free of single-use packaging.
MULTIVAC and DS Smith have joined forces to design and produce ECO Bowl – a modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) solution based on corrugated cardboard that can reportedly guarantee equal shelf life when compared with conventional MAP products.
