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 question Brett PA Lamont, senior business creator at OneCircle and Lightweight Containers (KeyKeg, UniKeg) asks is: Can you imagine a hospital without the ability to have sterile single-use equipment right now?
Samsung Electronics is set to introduce new packaging across its Lifestyle TV product portfolio in an effort to reduce its environmental footprint and encourage reuse.
Amcor CCO Michael Zacka is working in the company’s Zurich HQ out of solidarity with production staff keeping vital supply chains working during the pandemic. He shares his perspectives on the challenges and implications of the pandemic and lockdown
The word sustainability is readily applied across the food, beverage, and personal care packaging sectors, but would you associate it strongly with the home care market - which is conventionally less prominent in its ‘green’ product offering?
Prior to the Bostik webinar on March 24th at 15:00 GMT on the role adhesives can play when creating sustainable cardboard packaging for consumer goods, we catch up with speakers Tyler Derus and Pascal Peroni.
Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) has launched kp Kapture™, a new range of black and coloured trays and rigid films that are produced using carbon-free pigment and made from up to 100% recycled PET making them ‘detectable and fully recyclable’.
Tim Sykes caught up with David Katz, founder and CEO of Plastic Bank, and Philippe Blank, head of innovation and sustainability, Henkel Beauty Care, to learn how they plan to stop ocean plastic by monetizing waste while improving lives.
How do we determine the value of polymers in a vast global marketplace, and with a balancing act between developing solutions by adding properties to polymers, versus the overall carbon emissions and sustainability of the packaging material?
The world’s oldest champagne house, Maison Ruinart, has announced a new lighter, fibre-based, recyclable case that it says reduces carbon footprint by 60%.
