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ArticleAR Packaging helps Picard with shift to fibre-based ice cream tubs
AR Packaging has developed a fibre-based ice cream box with an integrated lid to help Picard, a French producer of frozen food, replace its plastic tubs – a move expected to save 16.5 tonnes of plastic per year.
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ArticleBoosting inspection performance with AI and deep learning
Inspection systems play a crucial role in keeping consumers safe, as product contamination can cause harm and has the potential to result in high costs and damage to brands.
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ArticleToppan leverages decorative printing tech to create NFC labels with ‘outstanding design quality’
Toppan Printing has developed a line of NFC labels that seek to combine high-quality metallic design with the communication performance required of NFC tags.
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ArticleTaking a closer look at AB InBev’s ‘lightest beer bottle in the world’
To learn more about AB InBev's latest innovation, as well as the company’s wider packaging sustainability ethos, we talked with Frederik De Graaf, global director of packaging development at AB InBev.
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ArticleMarkem-Imaje launches "market fastest" high resin thermal transfer coder
The new SmartDate® Xtreme Plus printhead application allows manufacturers to print codes with high resin thermal transfer ribbons at up to 600 millimeters per second (2 feet per second).
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ArticleCould this new low carbon food label alternative save the industry millions?
Secondary packaging company TrakRap believes it has solved one of the biggest barriers to fully recyclable secondary packaging for the food and drink sector with the launch of TrakCoder, a low-carbon alternative to ITF labels.
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ArticleMondi and ACMI team up on paper pallet wrapping system
Mondi has collaborated with an Italian machine producer, ACMI, to create a new wrapping system for pallets that uses paper instead of plastic.
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Article‘Green chemicals’: The next industrial revolution?
A recent report from consultancy firm PreScouter argues that ‘green chemistry’ could be the next industrial revolution that impacts all industries.
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ArticleBuilding a coherent circular economy: The view from the industry
Over the past few weeks, we have been asking representatives from key organizations across the packaging industry two key questions about circularity. Here is what they had to say.
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ArticleLatest Berry Healthcare eye dropper targets patient, manufacturer and environmental needs
An enhanced design for Berry Healthcare’s established Rispharm R2 multidose eye dropper seeks to provide an improved patient experience in terms of safety and convenience.
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ArticleArdagh presents new, consumer-driven jar design
Ardagh Group has created a new shape for Odenwald’s family of fruit sauce jars in three different sizes: 212ml, 370ml and 720ml.
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ArticleExtended Producer Responsibility Part 3: PepsiCo – the Brand owner perspective
In the third part of our series on EPR, Victoria Hattersley spoke with Archana Jagannathan, senior director for sustainable packaging at PepsiCo, about the pressures EPR requirements puts on brand owners.
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ArticleRapid packaging prototyping for consumer product packaging with 3D printing
3D printing solutions provider Stratasys Ltd. has introduced its Stratasys PolyJet™ printing technology, which the company says designers can now use to model complex, full-colour packaging.
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ArticleUnilever scales up refillable packaging trials with household brands
Unilever has announced that it is expanding its refillable packaging trials across the UK, including its first ‘return on the go’ refill trial, in selected Asda supermarket and Co-op convenience stores.
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ArticleThe potential for printing packaging in-house
Rob Brown, Senior Manager Business Development Industry Print, OKI Europe Ltd, explores the latest innovations that are finally making short run packaging printing both viable and profitable for print service providers
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ArticleLeading businesses call for adoption of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging
Today, for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, together with more than 50 other organisations, have publicly announced their support for the adoption of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
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ArticleCircular Packaging Q&A with Vincent Mooij
Welcome to the first in an ongoing series in which Vincent Mooij, Director of SUEZ.circpack®, gives his take on some of the biggest challenges faced by the industry today on its journey towards circularity.
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ArticleGreiner Packaging creates cardboard-plastic hybrid pack for Henkel’s dishwasher capsules
Henkel’s new Somat Excellence 4in1 dishwasher capsules will be packaged in a cardboard-plastic hybrid solution created by Greiner Packaging that contains a 50% material made from recycled PP collected from end consumer households.
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ArticleUnilever joins pioneering rPP food packaging project
Unilever has joined Nextek’s global NEXTLOOPP project, which aims to create food-grade recycled polypropylene (rPP) from post-consumer packaging waste.
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ArticleAmcor’s innovative Dual Chamber Pouch gets European launch
Amcor has today announced the European launch of an innovative multi-chamber pouch for drug-device combination products.