All Food articles – Page 4
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PodcastSustainability Perspectives: Navigating reuse, recycling and composting
How do infrastructure, customer behaviour and operational realities shape what works best in sustainable food packaging, particularly in the takeaway sector? Duni Group’s Nicklas Lauwell shares his insights with Elisabeth Skoda.
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ArticleLieferando’s plant polymer-coated takeaway boxes make Austrian debut
After the packaging won a Sustainability Award last week, Lieferando will bring Huhtamaki’s cardboard delivery boxes coated in Xampla’s plant-based Morro material to the Austrian market.
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ArticleFreshness sensors track spoilage in Solidus’ fibre-based food packaging
Solidus has combined its recyclable, fibre-based packaging with BlakBear’s wireless freshness sensors to monitor food spoilage, improve safety and shelf life, and combat waste.
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ArticleNOMO introduces advent calendar with Braille overlays
UK plant-based chocolate brand NOMO has launched its first Braille Advent Calendar in collaboration with Dotty About Braille, aiming to enable blind and partially sighted customers to enjoy the countdown to Christmas independently.
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ArticleWhistl’s re-purposing process prevents 25 tonnes of label waste entering landfill
UK logistics company Whistl has implemented a new repurposing process for its label waste, which it claims could see 25 tonnes of label waste converted into new liner or paper products instead of being destined for landfill.
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ArticleWinners of the Sustainability Awards 2025 announced!
After much anticipation, the winners of the Sustainability Awards 2025 – the “Nobel prize” for sustainable packaging innovations – have been announced!
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ArticleToppan introduces hybrid manufacturing line for BOPP and BOPE films
Toppan and its subsidiary Toppan Speciality Films (TSF) have installed a hybrid manufacturing line capable of producing both biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film and biaxially-oriented polyethylene (BOPE) on the same machine.
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ArticleLimetrack secures over €1 million in funding to scale ‘smart bin’ in UK and Europe
London-based food waste technology company Limetrack has revealed it has raised over €1 million to scale production and deployment of its Smart bins, designed to automatically weigh and report waste and carbon emissions.
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ArticleAlbert Heijn’s assorted chicken product bags use 60% less plastic
After switching their rigid plastic containers to flexible bags, Albert Heijn’s assorted chicken products are said to use 60% less packaging and save over 200,000kg of plastic annually.
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ArticleSabert’s chilled deli food boxes reintroduced with ‘crystal-clear’ rPET lid
Sabert Corporation Europe has upgraded its Deli2Go range with a recyclable rPET lid for product visibility, on-shelf presentation, and end-of-life recyclability.
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ArticleSustainability Awards Finalist Interview: Grupo Lantero’s mono-material resealing solution
Grupo Lantero’s mono-material PET packaging with resealing technology aims to keep food fresh for longer. Nominated as a Finalist in the Pre-Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Álvaro Bernad, director of Innovation, Marketing and Sustainability at Grupo Lantero, to find out more about this innovation.
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ArticleOn-the-go carton bottle from SIG applied to SalzburgMilch’s dairy products
SalzburgMilch will package its dairy products in SIG’s on-the-go carton bottle, SIG DomeMini – a move set to balance functionality and shelf appeal.
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Sponsored ContentGöncay Packaging on paper vs. plastics – and balancing both in one portfolio
In this edition of our ‘In Conversation With…’ series, Göncay Packaging’s managing director, Levent Göncay, discusses the company’s product portfolio, its in-house production process, the costs of plastic vs. paper packaging, and more.
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ArticleMcDonald’s Happy Meal box becomes canvas to ‘draw how you feel’
McDonald’s and BBC Children in Need have debuted blank Happy Meal boxes to encourage children to express their emotions through art and start mental health conversations.
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ArticleResearchers say spray-coated bioplastics layers can improve barrier properties for paper packaging
A research team at the College of Natural Resources and Environment in Virginia Tech University, USA claim to have proved that biodegradable bioplastics can form durable, protective films on paper using a spray-coating technique, improving strength and barrier properties.
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ArticleSustainability Awards Finalist Interview: Copar’s recyclable flow wrap made from agri-waste
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Copar about its recyclable flow wrap for sausages, said to reduce environmental impact and nominated in the Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleTetra Pak unveils automation and digitization portfolio for food and beverage sectors
Tetra Pak has launched its Automation and Digitalization portfolio, Tetra Pak Factory OS, a suite of ‘modular, open and scalable’ smart factory technologies designed for food and beverage production, aiming to ‘lay the foundation’ for AI-ready factories.
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From our sponsorsAutomate your banding operations with ATS-Tanner's US-2500 machines
Mizuki Yuasa, head of R&D at ATS-Tanner, dives into the US-2500 banding machine line – designed for speed, simplicity, flexibility, energy efficiency, and even recycled substrate use – in this edition of our ‘In Conversation With…’ series.
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ArticleMcDonald’s Japan ditches paper straws for ‘strawless’ rPET lids – and more
McDonald’s Japan will replace its paper straws with ‘strawless’ rPET lids, transport food in 95% biomass plastic, and pack its Happy Meal toys in FSC-certified paper bags, all in hopes of avoiding 6,600 tons of virgin plastic annually.
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ArticleBOBST, Brückner and Mitsui Chemicals reveal ‘world first’ recyclable, mono-material retort solution
BOBST, Brückner and Mitsui Chemicals have joined forces to create a mono-material recyclable retort solution for food packaging, said to have high barrier properties based on opaque metallization.