All Featured Stories articles – Page 36
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ArticleFinalist Interview: FlexSea’s biomaterials made from seaweed
We speak to FlexSea to learn more about their novel biomaterials that set out to replace single-use plastics. The company is a finalist in the pre-commercialized climate category of our Sustainability Awards 2022.
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ArticleFinalist interview: EcoCubly e-commerce packaging
In our latest Sustainability Awards 2022 finalist interview, we find out about EcoCubly, a reusable e-commerce packaging solution that reduces void fill and empty space. EcoCubly is a finalist in the pre-commercialised Climate category.
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ArticleThe AIPIA World Congress: The #1 event for Smart Packaging
In just over two weeks AIPIA will open the doors for its first live Congress since 2019 (14/15 November). The event will host around 30 speakers and, on each of the two days, a Brand Challenge will open a window on what two internationally recognised Brands are planning for their next Smart Packaging implementation.
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ArticleWhat does modern traceability look like for CPG businesses?
Consumers are paying attention to their products – where and how they are sourced, and whether they are everything they claim to be. How can smart packaging accommodate for this shift, and what additional benefits can it bring? Ken Sickles, EVP and chief product officer at Digimarc, tells us why digitisation might be the way forward for CPG businesses.
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ArticleBacardi announces intent to remove plastic pourers from its rum bottles
Bacardi is set to remove non-refillable fitments from its bottles in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain and Portugal in an attempt to save around 140 tons of single-use plastic every year.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Keiryo Packaging’s polymer processing technology
We find out about Keiryo Packaging’s new technology that sets out to improve polymers’ performance by introducing a 3D printed part into existing industrial assets. The company is a finalist in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: UPLIFT recyclable plastics solution
The UPLIFT project, a finalist in our pre-commercialized Recyclable Packaging Sustainability Awards category, is a multi-stakeholder project developed by researchers at Aalborg University which focuses on the biological depolymerization of bio- and fossil-based plastic packaging waste.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: Recyclable oxygen barrier packaging from NOVA Chemicals
The next of our pre-commercialized innovation Sustainability Awards finalists is NOVA Chemicals, with its mono-material oxygen barrier packaging material which has been shortlisted in the ‘Recyclable Packaging’ category.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: Stirz International Packaging Solutions – plant-based dissolving beverage pouches
Next in our series of Sustainability Awards finalist interviews, we find out more about SIPZ, an innovation that is set to disrupt the nutrition and performance powder space.
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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.