All Featured Stories articles – Page 25
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ArticleEuropean companies across plastics value chain collaborate on project to facilitate wider use of recycled plastic packaging
Nineteen European partners have united under Buddie-Pack, a reusable plastic packaging project aiming to promote the utilisation of recycled plastics by preserving their protective properties and developing new cleaning solutions – an effort reportedly backed by the European Union.
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ArticleDow Packaging aims to enable traceability in mechanical recycling of flexible packaging with R-Cycle digital product passport
Dow Packaging and Speciality Plastics is working alongside HP Indigo, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking, and Karlville to implement the R-Cycle digital product passport into its pouch-to-pouch mechanical recycling concept, intending to improve its sorting and recycling processes by enabling traceability.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Ryp Labs’ StixFresh
Ryp Labs explains how their StixFresh stickers set out to extend the shelf life of fresh produce in the latest of our Sustainability Awards 2022 finalist interviews.
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ArticleTotalEnergies Corbion and TOMRA claim to have proven ‘easy’ sorting of PLA in mixed plastic waste streams
A sorting test carried out by TotalEnergies Corbion and TOMRA Recycling claims to have proven the feasibility of sorting PLA from other plastics in municipal mixed plastic waste streams.
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ArticleBuilding more resilient, flexible supply chains for the future
European supply chains are facing intense pressure under the strain of various social and political disruptions. For Phil Reuben, executive director at SCALA, adaptation is the way forward. In this article, he weighs in on the progress supply chains can make to work towards survival in turbulent times, from digitalisation to diversification.
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ArticleFinalist interview: polycirQ’s deinking surfactant aiding mechanical recycling
We speak to polycirQ to learn more about their technology which boosts the yield of high-quality recyclate by removing printing inks from LDPE and PP films. The company is a finalist in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category of our Sustainability Awards 2022.
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ArticleSmart water bottle for athletes tells them when it’s time to drink
American sports beverage brand Gatorade, part of PepsiCo, has launched a new bottle that tracks personalised hydration needs and indicates to athletes when to drink, via a cap that lights up as an alert mechanism.
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ArticleEU-backed project aims to develop packaging material from shrubs
AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is working on developing bioplastics for active cosmetics packaging made from trees and shrubs, within the EU-funded BeonNAT Project.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: Taghleef Industries and Gerosa Group
The next of our Sustainability Awards 2022 ’Pre-Commercialized Innovation’ finalists is a collaboration between Taghleef Industries and Gerosa Group, who have developed a recyclable PP-based barrier sachet for high product protection and easy tear opening.
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ArticleCepi announces new method of testing recyclability of paper packaging
Cepi has unveiled an updated test method to evaluate the recyclability of paper products in laboratory conditions, intended to assist companies in achieving their goals of sustainability and circularity.
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ArticleShould we be reviling or reinventing food packaging?
Could new, novel technologies be key to the role of packaging in the reduction of food waste? Yes, says Andrew Manly, communications director at AIPIA – and smart packaging should lead the way.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Mimica Touch Cap freshness indicator
Next up in our series of finalist interviews for the pre-commercialised part of our Sustainability Awards, we speak to Mimica about their Touch Cap technology, which shows whether a drink is still good to consume.
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ArticleHuhtamaki announces ‘95% renewable’, ‘biobased’ ice cream packaging with educational QR technology
Huhtamaki has launched its new ICON paper packaging technology, primarily designed for ice cream containers and lids, with QR codes providing North American consumers with additional information about sustainability.
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ArticleGreenhouse gas emissions are 9% lower in mechanical than chemical recycling, says Oeko-Institut
According to a report by the Oeko-Institut, mechanical recycling has a stronger claim to reaching carbon neutrality than its chemical counterpart; an estimated decrease in emissions of 2.599 kg CO2eq per kg of recyclate in mechanical recycling has led the company to claim that pyrolysis should be a ‘last resort’ when recycling plastic packaging.
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ArticleNestlé repackages Quality Street and KitKat chocolates in paper and ‘80% recycled’ plastic to improve recyclability
Nestlé’s Quality Street line is set to adopt FSC-certified paper packaging for its twist-wrapped sweets, predicted to replace 2.5 billion individual foil and cellulose wrappers on an international scale. Meanwhile, its KitKat chocolate is set to be packaged in wrappers made from 80% plastic from this month onwards.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: ColorSensing’s automatic colour recognition technology
ColorSensing is a finalist in the pre-commercialised Active & Intelligent category of the Sustainability Awards 2022. We spoke with the team to find out more about their entry.
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ArticleQuantum Dot partnership offers ‘next generation’ security inks
UbiQD, a New Mexico-based nanotechnology company, and AIPIA member SICPA, a Swiss technology company supplying security inks and secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, have announced the expansion of their partnership in the development of anti-counterfeit security inks based on UbiQD’s quantum dot technology.
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ArticleDS Smith and Krones aim to replace plastic shrink wrap with fibre-based ECO Carrier
DS Smith has partnered with packaging automation specialist Krones to create ECO Carrier, a fibre-based alternative to shrink wrap to package PET multipack bottles.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: Insignia Technologies’ After Opening Freshness Timer
Prior to the big unveil of the winners in the pre-commercialised section of our Sustainability Awards on November 14th in Amsterdam, we are finding out more about our finalists. Today, it’s the turn of Insignia Technologies’ After Opening Freshness Timer, a finalist in the Active and Intelligent category.
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ArticlePaul Foulkes-Arellano: It’s time we welcomed 3D printing into packaging factories
As brands go bespoke and packaging goes local, will packaging megafactories become redundant? Paul Foulkes-Arellano, founder of Circuthon Consulting, asks this question and more – arguing that the industry needs to work smarter, not larger, and embrace technology over expansion.