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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: ALPLA’s Canupak beauty care packaging
In our latest Finalist Interview ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to ALPLA’s innovation manager Karina Pölzl about the company’s ‘carbon-optimised’ Canupak packaging, nominated in the pre-commercalised Climate category.
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ArticlePaint the picture: How brands can navigate choices and satisfy consumers
The critical challenges facing companies in the packaging sector are clear: achieving sustainability objectives, ensuring that products are safe and convenient for consumers to use, and maintaining profitability. But how can these occasionally competing aims be reconciled? Mandi Alaterä, Senior Vice President at Stora Enso’s packaging materials division, tells us more.
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ArticleThe role of green chemistry and regenerative materials in packaging
The Principles of Green Chemistry are designed to help chemists make safe and sustainable choices for human and environmental health. Today, companies, governments, and higher education systems are integrating them into curricula and practice across the packaging industry. Dr. Charlene Smith, Green Chemistry Lead at Materiom, shares her views on the role of green chemistry in regenerative materials innovation in the packaging space.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Syntegon’s paper-ON-form
The latest edition of our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards comes courtesy of Syntegon, with its paper-ON-form retrofit kit for cold-sealable paper packaging on existing horizontal flow wrapping machines. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the commercialised Machinery category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Siegwerk and Henkel’s printable oxygen barrier coating
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Siegwerk and Henkel’s oxygen barrier coating collaboration. We spoke to Alina Marm, global head of sustainability and circular economy at Siegwerk about this entry, nominated in the pre-commercialised Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleThe power of accessible packaging to elevate your brand
Steve Brownett-Gale from Lifestyle Packaging delves into the critical importance of accessible packaging and how it can elevate your product portfolio.
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ArticlePilloried plastic or pulp fiction: the great packaging quandary
Ecoveritas’ Head of Sustainability and Consulting, Kathy Illingworth, gives her views on why the binary ‘plastic = bad, paper = good’ approach to packaging decisions comes with significant risks.
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ArticlePPWR: the forces at work influencing its scope and direction
Next month, the European Parliament will be voting on the new Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation. Neil Osment, Managing Director of paper packaging industry analysts NOA, gives his views on what this might mean for the packaging industry.
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ArticleA look at emerging trends in life cycle analysis
Life cycle analysis is an essential part of packaging sustainability – but different comparisons between materials and processes can often give conflicting – and confusing – results. How can our industry standardise LCAs, and what are some of the key emerging trends in the field? We learned more from Tim Grant, director and founder of Lifecycles.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Flint Group’s ZenCode WA Star NC
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Flint Group with its ZenCode WA Star NC ink solution. We spoke to the company’s NA Flexible Packaging product manager Gayle Wirthwine and R&D innovation manager Pierre Dogliani about this entry, nominated in the pre-commercialised Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: AMP Robotics’ AMP Vortex
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is AMP Robotics with AMP Vortex, its AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered automation system for film removal and recovery in recycling facilities. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the commercialised Machinery category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Ranpak’s total cold chain solutions
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Ranpak with its total cold chain packaging solutions. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the commercialized E-commerce category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: IMA Ilapak’s Delta OF-360 X wrapping machine
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is IMA Ilapak with its Delta OF-360 X wrapper. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the commercialised Machinery category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Papair’s PapairWrap
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Papair with its Papair Wrap, apparently made from 100% recycled paper. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the pre-commercialised Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Pragmatic Semiconductor
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Pragmatic Semiconductor with its flexible microchips for smart reusable packaging. We spoke to the company about this entry, which has been nominated in the commercialised Active and Intelligent category.
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ArticleConsumer survey: Recycling is top of the sustainability list
Earlier this year, Pro Carton, the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers, asked more than 5,000 consumers about their attitudes towards the environment and packaging perceptions. Answers showed that that two in three European consumers from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy (63%) intend to create a more sustainable lifestyle, and more than half (58%) place recycling at the top of the list to reduce impacts of climate change.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Ericsson’s wood-fibre based packaging
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Ericsson with its wood-fibre based packaging. We spoke to the company about this entry, which has been nominated in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
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ArticleA ‘holistic’ approach to packaging manufacturing
Christian Kolarik was appointed CEO of Coveris at the beginning of 2023. We talked to him about trends and developments, industry challenges, the plastics vs paper debate and more.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Flint Group’s Evolution Deinking Primer
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Flint Group with its Evolution Deinking Primer. We spoke to the company’s R&D innovation manager Pierre Dogliani about this entry, which has been nominated in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2023 Finalist Interview: Kraft Heinz’ mono material dispensing closure
Next in our Finalist Interview series for the Sustainability Awards is Kraft Heinz with its mono material dispensing closure, Balaton. We spoke to packaging developer Balint Hiltser about this entry, which has been nominated in the commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.