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ArticleNew Smart Packaging technology delivers end-to end solution for cannabis sector
AIPIA member Identiv and TrueGreen, a cannabis technology company specializing in digitizing packaging, have announced the deployment of the world’s first smart tamper seal using RFID technology, designed to deliver, along with the TrueGreen software as a service (SaaS) platform, digital transformation in the cannabis industry, giving products a unique digital identity, they claim.
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ArticleWhat does modern traceability look like for CPG businesses?
Consumers are paying attention to their products – where and how they are sourced, and whether they are everything they claim to be. How can smart packaging accommodate for this shift, and what additional benefits can it bring? Ken Sickles, EVP and chief product officer at Digimarc, tells us why digitisation might be the way forward for CPG businesses.
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ArticleBeverage associations fear that ‘discriminatory’ EU reuse targets for beverage containers will cause economic and environmental setbacks
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 players and cause harm to existing businesses and sustainability efforts.
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ArticleTotalEnergies Corbion purchases reprocessed PLA waste for production of rPLA
TotalEnergies Corbion has announced that it is buying reprocessed PLA waste to recycle into its Luminy rPLA brand, which claims to share the properties and certifications of virgin Luminy PLA.
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ArticleBacardi announces intent to remove plastic pourers from its rum bottles
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.
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ArticleQR on snack packaging invites students to create their own music
Harvest Snaps, a plant-based snack brand which is part of Calbee America, has launched a music-driven, TikTok-branded, effect designed to attract and engage college students across the USA during the Autumn.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Keiryo Packaging’s polymer processing technology
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.
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ArticleDow collaborates with W&H and B&B to produce ‘recyclable’ MDO-PE pet food bag
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.
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ArticleDulux Decorator Centre’s can recycling scheme said to receive one million paint cans
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.
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ArticleHow ensuring accessibility improves packaging for everyone
In this article, Howard Wright, executive creative and strategic director UK, IE & Australia at Equator Design, explores how inclusive design can be used to create packaging that not only meets the expectations of disabled customers but can also lead to a better product overall.
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ArticleSealed Air’s first paper wrapping systems aspire for quick, safe, and efficient packaging process for product delivery
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.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: UPLIFT recyclable plastics solution
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.
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ArticleNew project aims to create active packaging based on biomass from shrubs
Longstanding AIPIA member AIMPLAS is working on developing bioplastics for active packaging for cosmetics and absorbent litter for the pet industry within the European BeonNAT Project.
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ArticleWebinar: Solutions for adaptable PET packaging production in the evolving European market
To compete in today’s evolving European market producers must adopt manufacturing solutions that can meet the diverse regional needs of evolving consumer, economic and social demographics.
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ArticleVeolia’s PlastiLoop offer pursues circularity by providing companies with ‘circular’ resins and supporting recycling processes
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.
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ArticleReifenhäuser unveils ‘precise, autonomous, mechatronic’ automation option for coextrusion adapters and dies
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.
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ArticleTotalEnergies announces ‘low-carbon’ recycled polymer range intended to improve energy efficiency of plastics
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.
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ArticlePrintpack launches flexible pouch with hologram-like features
AIPIA member, Printpack, a major manufacturer of flexible and specialty rigid packaging, has partnered with Fathom Optics to develop the first hologram-like 3D pouch on a wide web flexographic press.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: Recyclable oxygen barrier packaging from NOVA Chemicals
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.
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ArticleMilliken and PureCycle release ‘fully sustainable’ PP resin concentrate to encourage lower-carbon production of plastic packaging
Milliken & Company has collaborated with PureCycle Technologies to create what is claimed to be the first fully sustainable concentrate for PP on the market, thought to have a 35% lower carbon footprint than virgin PP and enable customers to utilise higher amounts of recycled content.