All Sustainable Packaging Summit articles
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: PAPACKS’ fibre bottle
PAPACKS is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its moulded Fiber Bottle, said to be recyclable and aiming to offer a scalable, patented alternative to plastic bottles for products such as dietary supplements. We spoke with the company to find out more about this innovation.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: Xampla’s plastic-free coating for takeaway boxes
With this year’s Sustainability Awards fast approaching, we hear from finalist Xampla about its entry in the Commercialized E-Commerce category – the ‘world’s first’ corrugated takeaway box using Xampla’s plastic-free barrier coating, said to be biodegradable and home compostable.
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ArticleSustainability Awards Finalist Interview: Mondi’s recyclable kraft paper pallet wrapping
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Mondi about its Ad/Vantage StretchWrap, nominated in the Commercialized Renewable Materials category and said to combine high stretchability and puncture resistance.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: Ecohelix’s wood-based heat seal coating
Ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards taking place in Utrecht in November, we spoke with Ecohelix about its Woodmer Seal for coatings in industries such as e-commerce and personal care, said to be fully recyclable and nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Renewables category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: Henkel’s hot melt adhesive for e-commerce packaging
Henkel is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its bio-based hot melt adhesive for e-commerce packaging, said to reduce CO2 emissions and waste. We spoke to the company to find out more about this innovation, nominated in the Commercialized E-Commerce category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: SIPA’s preform technology for rPET
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to SIPA about its XFORM RENEW technology for rPET preforming, said to cut emissions and boost output, nominated in the Commercialized Machinery category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: DS Smith’s fibre-based multipack for PET bottles
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards we spoke to Patricia Oddshammar, design and innovation director at DS Smith, about the company’s recyclable multipack for PET bottles, produced in collaboration with Krones. Designed as a fibre-based alternative to plastic shrink film, the entry has been nominated in the Commercialized Climate category.
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PodcastSustainability Perspectives: An in-depth look at the possibilities of dry moulding fibre technology
What are some of the recent innovations and challenges in the area of dry moulding fibre technology for packaging? YUTOECO’s Jerome Zhang tells Elisabeth Skoda more about recent developments and technological advances.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: Beontag’s RFID food packaging tag
In our latest Finalist Interview ahead of the Sustainability Awards - taking place at the Sustainable Packaging Summit in Utrecht this November - we spoke to Beontag about its entry in the Pre-Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category; its UHF RFID food packaging tag, said to be microwave and dishwasher compliant.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: BOTTLESS’ refillable airless packaging system
BOTTLESS is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its refillable Airless Pak, said to reduce plastic use by 90% and nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category. We spoke to CEO and founder Chiwon Yi to find out more about this innovation.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: CMC’s 3D vertical bagger and auto-packer
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to CMC about its Super Vertical machine, said to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 30% and nominated in the Commercialized Machinery category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2025 Finalist Interview: Helicot’s recyclable paper tube for health and beauty products
Ahead of the Sustainability Awards 2025 taking place in Utrecht this year, we spoke to Veritiv about its Helicot Paper Tube, said to be recyclable, compostable and biodegradable, nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleWhat to look forward to at the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2025
This year’s Sustainable Packaging Summit takes place in Utrecht on the 10th-12th November and is packed full of panels, round tables and breakout sessions tackling everything from the roadmap to 2045, global packaging sustainability legislation, EPR and infinite materials to scaling up reuse systems.
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ArticleAnnouncing the finalists of Packaging Europe’s Sustainability Awards 2025!
After another year of top-tier entries across the board, the first round of judging has come to a close – now the international, expert jury of the world’s most prestigious sustainable packaging competition reveals the finalists of the Sustainability Awards 2025!
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ArticleWhat is your greatest concern in meeting sustainable packaging obligations?
When we polled the audience at our recent Sustainable Packaging Summit to find out what their biggest concern was in terms of meeting their sustainable packaging targets, the most popular answer was clear: cost. Anna Perlina, sustainable packaging consultant at Integrity Solutions, talks us through some strategies and tactics to help companies meet this critical challenge head-on.
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ArticleReport: Strategic learnings from the 2024 Sustainable Packaging Summit
How are leading figures in the packaging industry approaching sustainability? Our latest Report captures the critical strategic insights and lessons learned from the 2024 Sustainable Packaging Summit, where innovators and thought leaders from across the value chain convened to address the most pressing sustainability challenges in the packaging sector.
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Article60 Seconds with Trayak at SPS
Filmed at this year’s Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam, Trayak president Prashant Jagtap and Mitja Brgant, director of Europe Operations, explain how the company’s sustainability platform uses data to analyze products and packaging for its customers.
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Article60 Seconds with Swiss Pac at SPS
Filmed at this year’s Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam, Nandan Vachhani and Myriam Bastar of Swiss Pac explain the company’s reasons for attending the event and outline its range of flexible packaging solutions.
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Article60 Seconds with monta at SPS
At this year’s Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam, Koffi Tchetchebleko, Regional Sales Manager at monta, explains how the company’s Greenline tapes help to minimize the use of virgin fossil-based material.
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ArticleThe inside scoop on the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2024
So many valuable and in-depth conversations were held at the Sustainable Packaging Summit this year. To give you a taste, this edition of the Brief provides a snapshot of the onstage discussions, from regulatory limitations to data collection to start-up pitches.