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…
According to VDMA, ‘strong demand’ for packaging machines increased the production of food processing and packaging machinery by 5% in 2023, taking the production value to a record high of €16.5 billion.
The ‘world’s smallest’ child-resistant tube from Hoffmann Neopac, Chanel and L’Occitane’s hand cream tubes with octagonal caps, and lightweight, recyclable closures from Albéa are among the winners of etma’s Tube of the Year 2024 Award.
Systech is launching a turnkey manual aggregation and rework system with its sights set on improving productivity, enhancing supply chain traceability, and complying with regulation for pharmaceutical packaging.
In a bid to expand its liquid pharmaceutical processing and packaging portfolio, Syntegon is acquiring Azbil Telstar, a manufacturer and supplier of global life and health science equipment, and utilizing its loading, unloading, and freeze-drying technologies.
Bayer is teaming up with PAPACKS to develop biodegradable, fibre-based packaging for consumer health brands like Aspirin, Bepanthen, and Claritin – a step towards its goal of achieving 100% reusable or recycle-ready packaging by 2030.
Paperboard packaging company Keystone Folding Box Co. has introduced a new child-resistant blister wallet with push-through opening, aiming to reduce overall package size and utilize less material.
In a Memorandum of Understanding with industrial hemp provider element6 Dynamics, PAPACKS plans to bring more hemp-based moulded and thermal-formed packaging to the US market – targeting decarbonization, reduced deforestation across the supply chain, and a transition away from plastics.
At ACHEMA 2024, Schubert-Pharma will exhibit its ‘user-friendly’, top-loading packaging vial machine with a table-top design, set to help manufacturers in the pharmaceutical sector surpass their line clearance requirements.
In the life science sector, clear and correct labels are required to ensure user safety – but rapid shifts in labelling requirements can cause roadblocks. In this latest ‘In Conversation With…’ feature, Esko’s Life Sciences category specialist, Jackie Leslie, and Life Sciences product manager, Joe…
In a move expected to benefit adult consumers with physical disabilities, SnapSlide has revealed a line of no-torque caps that enable single-handed opening and closing without sacrificing child resistance.
Systech has launched a rework solution for exception management designed to help manufacturers, CMOs (Contract Manufacturing Organization), CPOs (Contract Packaging
Berry Global has announced the launch of the BerryHaler, a dual chamber, dry powder inhaler (DPI) with a dose counter designed to provide better patient access to and support the effective delivery of combination drugs.
