All Amcor articles – Page 4

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    Sustainability perspectives: Amcor

    2019-10-29T14:10:00Z

    In this video interview, Amcor’s strategic marketing manager Carlos Trubacz talks about how the company, a Sustainabiilty Awards gold sponsor, aims to deliver responsible packaging through innovation.

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    Podcast: Sustainability perspectives

    2019-10-18T12:31:00Z

    The Packaging Europe team gains insights from a glass, paper and plastics perspective from Sustainability Awards gold sponsors O-I (01:08), Amcor (10:58), Koehler Paper Group (16:00), Trinseo (27:10), Domo Film Solutions (39:54) and SP Group (46:16).

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    Toppan and Amcor: Collaboration on NFC-enabled anti-counterfeiting solution for wine

    2019-10-10T08:05:00Z

    Toppan Printing and Amcor have announced an agreement to collaborate on providing an anti-counterfeiting solution for the wine and spirits markets.

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    Amcor opens e-commerce laboratories in Europe and the US

    2019-09-30T10:55:00Z

    Amcor has opened two e-commerce testing laboratories, one in Manchester, Michigan, US, and one in Ghent, Belgium. At both sites, the company’s packaging experts will test and certify packaging for customers from around the world.

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    Inside the world’s top packaging innovations

    2019-09-17T15:02:00Z

    Dow has today announced the results of the 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards. Tim Sykes, who was privileged to participate in the competition’s jury for a second consecutive year, reports on the winners.

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    Amcor Evolves High-Barrier Packaging with New Recyclable Material

    2019-06-03T13:00:00Z

    There is an urgent need to address packaging waste, a challenge that is widely acknowledged. The challenge has been finding solutions. A new material now makes recycling an option for previously hard-to-recycle high-barrier packaging

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    The Shelf-Life Challenge

    2019-05-02T09:04:00Z

    Pressure on the planet’s resources continues to grow, and with it our need for packaging technologies that prevent food waste, particularly for energy-intensive products such as meat. How is flexible packaging catering to this need?

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    Exclusive! Amcor launches AmLite Ultra Recyclable Film

    2019-04-24T09:01:00Z

    Amcor is today launching AmLite Ultra Recyclable. Thanks to high barrier properties for oxygen and moisture, the new laminate is suitable for ambient products with demanding barrier requirements, such as coffee and personal care sachets.

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    Recycle or Reuse? Will Loop Redefine the Circular Economy?

    2019-03-12T09:50:00Z

    Last year saw great strides in the construction of a circular economy in plastics, mapping out how to marry design for recycling with a viable market for PCR. But some suggest that even universal recycling of plastics would be no panacea.

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    Danone partners with Amcor to design new yogurt jar

    2019-01-14T13:13:00Z

    The yogurt market in Latin America continues to grow as companies develop products to appeal to health-conscious consumers. That appeal includes premium-looking packaging that is durable and increasingly sustainable.

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    Amazon Flexing its Muscles on Wasteful Packaging

    2018-11-16T08:08:00Z

    Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging vendor incentive program has landed in Europe. Tim Sykes spoke with Dr Kim Houchens, Amazon’s director, Customer Packaging Experience, to discuss the aims and far-reaching implications of this initiative.

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    A Line in the Sand: Inside the Global Commitment to Circular Plastics

    2018-11-12T14:46:00Z

    Following the announcement that 250 major stakeholders have signed up to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s groundbreaking pledge, Tim Sykes spoke to Sander Defruyt (lead, New Plastics Economy initiative) about the vision and its practical implications

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    Sustainability Awards in pictures

    2018-10-29T14:43:00Z

    The most prestigious sustainability competition for packaging innovation reached its culmination in Gothenburg last week. Here are the photographic highlights of Sustainability Awards 2018

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    Sustainability Awards 2018 Winners Unveiled Live in Gothenburg

    2018-10-23T08:51:00Z

    The winners of the world’s most prestigious competition for sustainable packaging innovation have been announced in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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    "A giant step for the circular economy"

    2018-10-01T09:42:00Z

    This week's video features Amcor's breakthrough launch of a polyolefin high-barrier film platform that's recyclable in existing streams and matches performance of existing multi-material substrates across a range of ambient & retortable applications.

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    Recyclability Revolution in High-Barrier Films

    2018-09-24T07:00:00Z

    Exclusive! Amcor sets out to transform the circular capability of flexible packaging with the launch of a new polyolefin barrier film – a platform technology for packaging a huge variety of products.

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    Dow Awards Take the Pulse of Global Innovation

    2018-09-11T14:12:00Z

    Revealing the winners of the prestigious Awards for Packaging Innovation! Packaging Europe’s Tim Sykes, a member of the global judging panel that assembled in Houston to scrutinise the entries, looks back on the competition and its deserving winners

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    24 Finalists Compete for the Top Sustainable Packaging Accolades

    2018-09-11T09:29:00Z

    Packaging Europe has announced the top four submissions in each of the six categories of the Sustainability Awards 2018, as judged by the seventeen-strong, independent jury representing the breadth of the European packaging value chain.

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    Machinery Finalists for the 2018 Sustainability Awards

    2018-09-05T10:23:00Z

    Which four innovations in packaging machinery have our magnificent jury judged to be the most significant in their impacts on sustainability?

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    Amcor and Bemis to combine in $6.8 billion deal

    2018-08-06T14:40:00Z

    Amcor and Bemis have announced that their respective boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which Amcor will acquire Bemis in an all-stock combination.