All Comment articles – Page 38
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ArticleDiscussing Challenges and Solution across the Plastics Value Chain
The EU has set a series of very ambitious, and at the same time necessary, targets by 2030. All plastic packaging on the EU market must be reusable or cost-effectively recycled.
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ArticleThe Post Plastic Waste Era
Hugh Ross, CEO of Petainer explores refillable bottles (RefPET) as a stepping stone towards a zero-wate economy.
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ArticleMultiple Routes toward Sustainability
PepsiCo VP (and Sustainability Awards judge) Chris Daly spoke to Tim Sykes about the environmental challenges for packaged goods and the need to follow a multi-dimensional, long-term roadmap to meet them.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts... The world’s changing – is industry listening?
Haulwen Nicholas (founder of the Packaging Oracle) argues that the current leadership of the packaging world need to make space for a new generation
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ArticleGermany’s new Packaging Act: Manufacturers need to become proactive
Gunda Rachut, Chair of Germany’s Central Packaging Registry (ZSVR), explains why the “new” Packaging Act is not really all that new and should not bring any real surprises. In this interview she explains why.
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ArticleInnovations in smart packaging indicators: Life made easy
Smart packaging innovations are going to disrupt a lot of traditional packaging techniques. Packaging that incorporates advanced technologies to provide enhanced functionality compared to conventional packaging can be considered smart.
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ArticleWorking towards solving the circular economy challenge
SYSTEMIQ is a B corporation created in 2016 to drive achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement by transforming markets and business models in three key economic systems: land use, materials and energy.
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ArticleFuture proofing the pharma supply chain
Rich Quelch, Global Head of Marketing, Origin discusses the implications of an inefficient suppy chain.
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ArticleDemand for corrugated: could growing reach of China create European waste mountains?
In what looks like an unintended consequence, China’s recent ban on importing rubbish for recycling looks set to have an impact on the European corrugated waste market.
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ArticleFour growth opportunities for packaging in Europe
To find new revenue in a saturated market, Europe’s packaging firms will need to innovate and diversify their product portfolios. Smithers Pira’s analysis identifies the following four growth opportunities for the next five years and beyond
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ArticleOn the Need for a Fundamental E-Think
Smurfit Kappa’s Gérard van den Boogaard discusses the mind-boggling array of variables presented by e-commerce, overturning almost all of the suppositions that have served logistics and tertiary packaging well until now.
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ArticleCEFLEX: Transformative Collaboration in Flexibles
For 2 years CEFLEX worked quietly on mapping a flexibles circular economy. Now it's ready to share its detailed vision and direction of travel. Tim Sykes was privileged as the first journalist to attend its general meeting – and left deeply impressed
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ArticleThe digitalisation of food palletising
The technological and social revolutions of the past few decades have completely reshaped industry. The food packaging and palletising industry is no exception.
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ArticleOne size doesn’t fit all when it comes to more sustainable packaging
Sustainability is complicated, and when it comes to packaging, it can manifest itself in many ways and on many levels.
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ArticleA Theme-Based Approach to Packaging Design
Quadpack Industries will be presenting new collections within a theme-based approach, and each one expresses the needs and desires of consumers through virtual personalities.
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ArticleRecycling - An essential measure for the circular economy
K 2019 makes the case for plastics and highlight advances in recycling innovation.
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ArticleInnovation in Blow Moulding and Thermoforming – The advent of simulation
We must continuously innovate – or someone else will. Everywhere we can see how 21st century computing power has driven innovation and reduced costs – but not everywhere in the plastics industry, as David Russell reports.
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ArticlePodcast: Addressing the skills shortage in the packaging industry
Bruce Funnell, head of packaging for global confectionery at Nestlé and Louise Codling, CEO of The National Skills Academy for Food and Drink, discuss the skills shortage within the packaging industry with Libby White.
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ArticleGlobal Serialization: Russian Track and Trace Readiness
Excellis Health is a provider of strategy and implementation consulting services within the Life Sciences and Healthcare industries.
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ArticleBritish Plastics Federation Survey: Against No Deal Brexit and for Revoking Article 50
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has surveyed its members in a flash poll that mirrored the ‘indicative votes’ that MP’s voted for in the House of Commons on Wednesday 27 March.