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From our sponsorsMondi targets plastic reduction with mono-material pouch re-design for hair care brand
Mondi has worked with Kao’s hair cosmetic brand Goldwell on a lightweight, mono-material stand-up pouch that reportedly offers an 80% reduction in plastic compared to the previous rigid packaging solution.
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India to introduce ban on some single-use plastics from July 2022
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has announced that from the 1st of July 2022, the country will ban the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of select single-use plastics, including cutlery, straws, carrier bags, and trays, that it claims have “low utility and high littering potential”.
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Connect with industry-leading experts at our Sustainable Packaging Summit
With Packaging Europe’s Sustainable Packaging Summit just weeks away, here’s a rundown on the top-level experts who’ll be attending – and how you can meet them.
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Constantia Flexibles launches mono-material laminate for high chemical resistance applications
Constantia Flexibles has launched what it claims is a recycle-ready, mono-material PP laminate with high chemical resistance for pharmaceutical applications.
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Where are the barriers and opportunities for scaling reuse systems?
Hubbub has released a report that draws on interviews with key industry players and a poll of consumers to understand attitudes toward reusable packaging and pathways to scaling reuse solutions. Convenience and cost, education and research, and technology and design are key considerations that the organisation says must be accounted for when it comes to establishing reusable packaging systems at scale.
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Valser introduces label-free beverage bottles
Valser, a Coca-Cola brand, has launched beverage bottles without labels, which feature the product information and logo embossed into the bottle with the barcode printed on the top of the lid.
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Ball Corporation unveils lightweight aerosol can aimed at carbon footprint reduction
Ball Corporation has unveiled a new aluminium aerosol can made with its lightweight ReAl alloy while incorporating 50% recycled content and aluminium smelted using renewable energy sources in a bid to half the pack’s carbon footprint.
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Sustainability Perspectives: Zooming in on flexibles
Constantia Flexibles’ Daniel Winkler discusses sustainability challenges and solutions as well as recent trends and developments in the flexible packaging market with Elisabeth Skoda.
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Integrated cap solution for small dose tubes launched by Emballator
Emballator Tectubes has introduced an integrated Twist off Recap solution for its mono-material Small Doses range that reportedly reduces material content by 10%.
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How can we harness the potential of the informal waste economy?
Plastics For Change aims to engage informal waste collectors in the Global South with traceability solutions to facilitate higher collection rates and ethical working conditions. Andrew Almack, CEO and founder of Plastics For Change, discusses both the global and local significance of the informal waste economy and its potential to generate social and environmental change.
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Neste secures European rights to Alterra Energy’s chemical recycling technology
Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology, a chemical recycling solution for hard-to-recycle plastics that the companies are looking to scale at Neste’s refineries in Finland and the Netherlands.
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From our sponsors
How can we make extended producer responsibility a reality?
Ignacio Gavilan, Sustainability Director at The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and Sander Defruyt, Lead of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Initiative, outline the ongoing work of their respective organisations on extended producer responsibility schemes, and explain the key role these schemes play in a circular economy for packaging.
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NEXTLOOPP concludes first packaging production trial of rPP resins
NEXTLOOPP says it has “successfully” concluded its first full-scale packaging production trial, incorporating PPristine food-grade resins into Mannok Pack’s dairy tubs and lids to produce 30% rPP packs with acceptable visual and processing characteristics.
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From our sponsors
White metallised flexible film developed by Idvac without titanium dioxide
Idvac Ltd. has developed a bright white, non-pigmented metallised film that does not contain titanium dioxide and can be used for applications including barrier packaging and labelling.
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Could this innovative technology replace plastic coatings and PFAS?
Cellulotech, a Canadian materials science company, claims to have developed a food contact-approved process that makes paper products resistant to water, grease, oxygen, and vapour – all while having no effect on recycling and composability.
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Constantia Flexibles and Plasthill collaborate on lighter weight PE films
Constantia Flexibles and Plasthill Technical Films have collaborated to scale the former’s proprietary micro embossing technology, CompressSeal, which reportedly offers higher seal integrity than standard PE films while weighing up to 30% less without compromising on thickness.
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Australian winemakers collaborate on launch of flat, 100% rPET wine bottles
Packamama has collaborated with Accolade Wines and Taylors Wines on the Australian market launch of wine bottles made from 100% recycled and recyclable PET with a flatter profile that reportedly allows twice as many bottles to fit in a standard wine case.
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UPM launches fibre-based high-barrier packaging solution
UPM Speciality Papers has unveiled UPM Solide Lucent, a recyclable speciality kraft paper that the company says can be used as a high-barrier coating base or for single-packs, bags, and wraps, with higher basis weights offered for a range of properties and applications.
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Henkel’s Pril brand now offered in 100% rPET bottle
Henkel has announced that the bottle bodies for its Pril dishwashing liquid brand now include 50% recycled material from the ‘yellow bag’ collection system in Germany, with the remainder sourced from recycled beverage bottles to bring the total composition up to 100% rPET.
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Scientists develop starch-based biopolymer coating with antimicrobial properties for food packaging
Scientists at Rutgers University, New Jersey, have developed a starch-based, degradable biopolymer coating with naturally occurring antimicrobial ingredients, which can reportedly be sprayed onto food to protect against contamination, spoilage, and transportation damage.
