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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Redesigning the future of food packaging
Redesigning the future of food packaging
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Sustainability Awards ceremony
At the Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam, the winners of this year’s Sustainability Awards, the most prestigious global competition for sustainable packaging innovation, were announced. Click here to watch the full ceremony and hear from all the winners!
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Closing reflections
Key takeaways from the Sustainable Packaging Summit.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: HolyGrail 2.0: What’s the future for digital watermarking?
Having hosted the HolyGrail 2.0 member meeting on the previous day, the Summit gives a public platform to this ground-breaking collaboration to discuss the progress of the project, next steps, and the future of the Initiative in the context of an open, competitive market for facilitating a circular economy in packaging.
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WWF records decline in ‘problematic plastics’ for Amcor, Starbucks, P&G, and more
The fourth annual report from WWF’s ReSource: Plastic programme has examined the plastic footprints of Amcor, P&G, McDonald’s Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, and other members – finding a general decrease in their use of ‘problematic plastics’ from 2021 to 2022, although the plastic weight in their aggregate portfolio apparently rose.
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National packaging legislation could derail the EU Single Market, EUROPEN cautions
EUROPEN has joined over 100 associations in the European packaging industry in encouraging EU Member States to preserve the Single Market and prevent supply chain disruptions in the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.
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Saica Group builds corrugated board plant to combine operations and increase efficiency
Saica Group is building a new corrugated board plant in Barcelona with an investment of over €100 million, aspiring to increase its factories’ combined production by up to 45%.
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The Rapid Interview with Aluflexpack
In the latest instalment of our Rapid Interview series, Aluflexpack CEO Johannes Steurer runs us through the positives of utilizing aluminium in premium circular flexible packaging and barrier solutions.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Diagnosing the state of sustainability in packaging and industry motivation
Diagnosing the state of sustainability in packaging and industry motivation
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Adhesives perspectives on the journey to circularity
Bostik’s Sylvie Despret assesses the impact of adhesives in enabling sustainability advancements in packaging, the latest technologies on the market, with the example of the Wash-off PSA Labels, and Laminating adhesives for flexible packaging, and, in the context of latest market trends and upcoming regulatory demands, the challenges that the next generation of adhesives will need to meet.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: The flexible packaging transformation – shifting the mindset beyond expectations and obligations
The shift towards sustainable solutions in flexible packaging is no longer a choice but an imperative driven by legislation, costs, and evolving consumer expectations. In this field of tensions, argues Wipak’s Susan Janssen, it is even more important to take everybody on board on that path, consumer, customer, and employees likewise. It’s not just a change in materials; it’s a shift in mindset.
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Metsä Spring invests in conversion of dry pulp fibre into biomaterial for transparent flexibles
Metsä Group’s innovation arm, Metsä Spring, is leading a €1 million seed funding round in Swedish start-up FineCell to help develop and plan a demo production facility for its technology, which converts dry pulp fibre into added-value biomaterial.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Circular Foodpack project update
Fraunhofer IVV’s Nelly Freitag provides updates on the European Horizon 2020 project Circular Foodpack.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Pioneering liquid membrane substitution for packaging applications in a Net Zero era
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Pioneering liquid membrane substitution for packaging applications in a Net Zero era
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: How Kraft-Heinz uses collaboration to drive innovation
Innovation leaders from Kraft Heinz share their learnings from the sustainable packaging innovation process, in particular how leveraging internal and external partnerships can accelerate bringing innovation to market.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Nano-futures - FlexFunction2Sustain and ESNA
This presentation reviews the work of the FlexFunction2Sustain project, with the goal of creating an Open Innovation Test Bed for nano-functionalisation technologies that enable sustainable and smart plastics and paper-based products, and introduces the new European Sustainable Nanotechnology solutions Association (ESNA) which aims to transform innovative ideas into products.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Innovative Biobased Packaging - from research to market?
Insights into the latest research developments and on the upscaling of novel biobased, recyclable packaging materials for food contact.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: The secrets of open innovation
Collaborators from the distinct worlds of of brand owner (Beiersdorf’s Janina Zippel), investor (Fredric Petit from Emerald) and start-up (DePoly’s Samantha Anderson) discuss the teachable insights from their partnership on how to harness open innovation.
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Smurfit Kappa replaces nylon bag-in-box film with recyclable PE
Smurfit Kappa has unveiled a recyclable polyethylene film to replace nylon alternatives in bag-in-box packaging.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Chemical recycling & mass balance
The position of chemical recycling in our recycling ecosystem is much discussed - and by some fundamentally rejected. In this panel we scrutinise the strategic role of advanced recycling, its environmental impacts, and the associated and equally controversial question of mass balance accounting.