All Corrugated articles
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PodcastA deep dive into trends and developments in corrugated packaging
Stefano Rossi has been CEO of DS Smith’s packaging division since 2014 and has some 35 years of experience working in the paper industry. He chats to Packaging Europe’s Tim Sykes about key changes and developments in the industry, challenges the sector faces and strategies to address these, and looks at innovation opportunities in the areas of extended functionality, new applications and pushing the possibilities of what corrugated packaging can do.
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ArticleStora Enso completes De Jong Packaging Group acquisition and estimates 2,000 million m2 corrugated packaging capacity
Stora Enso has successfully completed its acquisition of De Jong Packaging Group and aims to further expand its portfolio into applications such as renewable packaging and e-commerce solutions at a combined corrugated packaging capacity of 2,000 million m2.
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ArticleStora Enso acquires De Jong Packaging Group to increase production of corrugated packaging
Stora Enso has acquired Dutch packaging company De Jong Packaging Group in the hopes of strengthening its European market presence in corrugated packaging.
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ArticleNew corrugated bottle carrier revealed by VPK Group
VPK Group has launched ECOGRIP, a corrugated alternative to shrink wrap for the multi-packing of a wide range of bottles.
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ArticleAssessing the paper-based alternative
As fibre based materials increasingly compete in plastic-dominated niches how do we compare environmental footprints? Tim Sykes spoke to Smurfit Kappa’s Arco Berkenbosch & Jurgita Girzadiene about novel applications and a new approach to LCA
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ArticleStora Enso launches new food-safe kraftliner
Stora Enso, a global provider of paper-based packaging solutions, argues that its new AvantForte kraftliner meets brand owners’ need for high-performing, safe and plastic-free packaging.
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ArticleStora Enso launches new B2B marketplace for corrugated packaging
Stora Enso has introduced Box Inc, a digital B2B marketplace that aims to help companies source packaging easily online.
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ArticleSmurfit Kappa launches portfolio of corrugated solutions to help communities affected by COVID-19
Smurfit Kappa has launched a new “Design for Help” portfolio of products with the aim of helping to alleviate some of the challenges being experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ArticleNew recyclability guidelines released for fibre-based packaging design
New guidelines – developed by Cepi, CITPA, ACE and FEFCO – give guidance for designers to ensure functionality goes hand in hand with recyclability
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ArticleOut of the comfort zone
Last autumn Smurfit Kappa launched its bold and open-ended Better Planet Packaging initiative. Tim Sykes met Arco Berkenbosch at Smurfit Kappa’s Global Experience Centre at Schiphol to find out how the sustainability brief looks one year on
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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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ArticleSmurfit Kappa's Better Planet Packaging Design Challenge 2019
The impact of plastic waste on the environment is a global challenge, and it requires a global response.
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ArticleSmurfit Kappa Better Planet Packaging Design Challenge 2019
The Better Planet Packaging Initiative aims to reimagine and redefine the future of sustainable packaging. As the first of many initiatives, Smurfit Kappa is launching two design challenges, open to designers, engineers, inventors & creative thinkers
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ArticleAdventures in Digitally Printed Corrugated
We reflect on our unprecedented collaboration with HP and LIC to distribute Packaging Europe in a digitally printed, multi-version corrugated box. HP’s experts and thought leaders in brand innovation to explore the ideas that the project touch upon
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ArticlePackaging Connections 31/01/2019
This week's big packaging stories: engage in our #unboxingEurope digitally printed customised corrugated experiment; introducing Loop - the new shopping concept using reusable premium packaging; and Smurfit Kappa's sustainable design challenge.
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Article#unboxingEurope Experience Coming Soon - Engage to Win an Exclusive Corrugated Artwork
As well as talking about innovation at Packaging Europe, we like to practise it. That’s why we have partnered with HP to create digitally printed, localised packaging for our own magazine for thousands of subscribers across Europe
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ArticleAmazon Flexing its Muscles on Wasteful Packaging
Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging vendor incentive program has landed in Europe. Tim Sykes spoke with Dr Kim Houchens, Amazon’s director, Customer Packaging Experience, to discuss the aims and far-reaching implications of this initiative.
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ArticleEnvisioning a Better Planet
As the world wrestles with the relationship of packaging to the environment, Smurfit Kappa has been rethinking its own engagement with sustainability. Arco Berkenbosch speaks about the challenges and SK's new, radically outward-facing approach
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FEFCO on Corrugated: "the perfect circular solution for a sustainable economy"
FEFCO, the association representing the European corrugated board industry, makes the sustainability argument for paper-based packaging.
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ArticleThe internet of boxes – tech’s next big thing?
We've all heard of the Internet of Things, along with the smart TVs, smart fridges and smart phones that make it up. But what about the boxes all these shiny gadgets arrive in? That’s just cardboard right, quite separate to the cool future-tech?