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…
SI Group, developer and manufacturer of performance additives, process solutions, pharmaceuticals, and chemical intermediates, has unveiled its EVERCYCLE additives platform for recycling PET, HDPE, PP, and LDPE packaging – aiming to improve stability, performance, colour control, and the amount of…
UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, The European Fruit Juice Association (AIJN), The Brewers of Europe, and Natural Mineral Waters Europe have issued a collective warning that the mandatory reuse targets for beverage containers set by the European Commission may be ‘discriminatory’ towards some industrial…
Bacardi is set to remove non-refillable fitments from its bottles in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain and Portugal in an attempt to save around 140 tons of single-use plastic every year.
We find out about Keiryo Packaging’s new technology that sets out to improve polymers’ performance by introducing a 3D printed part into existing industrial assets. The company is a finalist in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
A collaboration between Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics, W&H, and B&B has resulted in a supposedly recyclable wide-format MDO-PE bag to be used for pet food packaging.
Dulux Decorator Centre claims that its can recycling scheme has surpassed one million paint cans, an achievement thought to have contributed to the reduction of construction waste ending up in landfill.
Sealed Air has launched its first ready-to-roll paper wrapping systems, aimed at streamlining packaging supply for low- and medium-volume e-commerce retailers and fulfilment companies.
The UPLIFT project, a finalist in our pre-commercialized Recyclable Packaging Sustainability Awards category, is a multi-stakeholder project developed by researchers at Aalborg University which focuses on the biological depolymerization of bio- and fossil-based plastic packaging waste.
Veolia has launched its new PlastiLoop offer – said to provide customers across industrial sectors with circular resins and the means to utilise them, from waste collection to the production of new polymers.
Reifenhäuser has presented its new Precise, Autonomous, Mechatronic (PAM) automation option for coextrusion adapters and slot dies in flat film and sheet production and extrusion coating, thought to improve the cost and efficiency of the processes.
TotalEnergies has launched RE:clic, a new range of low-carbon polymers aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of end-use applications by improving their energy efficiency.
The next of our pre-commercialized innovation Sustainability Awards finalists is NOVA Chemicals, with its mono-material oxygen barrier packaging material which has been shortlisted in the ‘Recyclable Packaging’ category.
