Europe: Coveris reduces meat packaging by 50% for retailer
Coveris delivers a fully-circular skinboard tray for UK Plastics Pact's fresh protein products.
Replacing hard-to-recycle black plastic trays with a printed Forest Stewardship Council or...
Europe: Austrian coffee roaster uses green coffee capsules
Active packaging manufacturer Alpla and materials manufacturer Golden Compound have launched a biodegradable coffee capsule that can be disposed of in a home compost.
The...
Europe: Nestlé pledges increase in recycled plastics
By 2025, bottles, PET layer in laminates, caps on glass jars and tins, trays for meat products and shrink films for display trays will...
Europe: Parliament recognises the good bioplastics bring
The European Parliament’s report on the European Strategy for Plastics adopted recently by the plenary testifies to the increasing acknowledgement and endorsement of the...
Europe: Packaging beer cans with adhesive dots
The Carlsberg Group is using KHS subsidiary NMP System's Nature MultiPack to combine its beverage cans with adhesive dots instead of shrink-wrapping, hi-cone rings...
Americas: PepsiCo joins Alliance on sustainable packaging
PepsiCo has joined the NaturALL Bottle Alliance, a research consortium formed in 2017 by Danone, Nestlé Waters and bio-based materials development company Origin Materials...
Americas: Ball reports green wins
In line with the level of decarbonization required to keep the average global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures, Ball...
Asia Pacific: Chinaplas on smart manufacturing, lightweight trends
Reducing resource consumption and packaging-waste at the source is not exactly a new idea, and lightweighting has been gathering momentum in recent years, according...
Asia Pacific: China boost demand for virgin plastics material, analyst
Global demand for polyethylene (PE), the world’s most used plastic, has nearly doubled since 1999, according to information provider IHS Markit.
It states global demand...
Europe: Packaging needs to ‘speak’, said DLG
Consumer desire is a fundamental driver for change in the food sector as this has a direct influence on production processes and subsequent packaging,...