All Article articles – Page 64
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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleMetsä 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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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleSustainable 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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ArticleSmurfit 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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ArticleSustainable 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.
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ArticleBeontag drives smart tag and pressure-sensitive adhesive production in US with new facility
Beontag has set its sights on expansion in North America by investing in a 200,000-square-foot industrial building to drive production for its pressure-sensitive adhesives and smart tags.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Global insights on circular plastics
Pioneers of plastic recycling from Africa, Asia, North America and Europe discuss how different regions of the world can learn from each other’s experiences in developing a circular economy for plastics, how we can better support each other to drive circularity globally, and what kinds of international structures and harmonization could be beneficial.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Deposit Return Systems - PPWR and its implications
In this panel you’ll hear from experts who are directly involved in deposit return schemes, and learn more about where they stand and what solutions they propose.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: European regulation and PPWR
The autumn of 2023 is a pivotal moment for the European regulatory landscape and the shaping of the PPWR. We hear from Brussels and Brussels watchers about the key tensions and imperatives.
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ArticlePackaging papers from UPM Specialty Papers receive home compostability certification
Six packaging papers from UPM Specialty Papers have been certified as both home and industrially compostable in line with French legislation – a move set to ensure the responsible, environmentally safe treatment of paper packaging solutions at end-of-life.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Keynote (Amazon’s Thais Blumer)
Speaker: Thais Blumer, Head of Sustainable Packaging Europe at Amazon
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: UNEP Global Treaty
As INC-3 takes place in parallel with the Summit in Nairobi, the Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution could not be more topical. Our panel of speakers from the corporate, NGO and academic sectors discuss the desired outcomes of the UNEP treaty discussions, and the strategic implications for the value chain.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Is the world on track to tackle plastic pollution? Reflecting on five years of the Global Commitment
Sander Defruyt shares the state of play, five years since the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s launch of the Global Commitment: the progress that has been made, where our current trajectory falls short, and the levers available to get on course to eliminate plastic pollution.
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ArticleMondi’s paper stretch wrap embraced by Sentrex for paper bag pallets
Paper bag manufacturer Sentrex has adopted Mondi’s Advantage StretchWrap paper wrapping solution for its pallets in a bid to simplify logistics, optimize efficiency in the wrapping process, and phase out unnecessary plastics.
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Article‘Best before’ dates on Lidl milk and yoghurt labels aim to reduce food waste
Lidl GB aims to help consumers reduce food waste at home by replacing ‘use by’ dates with ‘best before’ alternatives on its yoghurt and fresh milk products.