Tag: Green
Asia Pacific: Fonterra turns dairy waste into fertilizer
New wastewater treatment technology at Fonterra’s Edendale site is turning dairy waste into fertilizer that is helping local pastures flourish.
The site has created...
Europe: Elopak becomes a CarbonNeutral company
Elopak is now a CarbonNeutral company, offering CarbonNeutral packaging and fulfilling its vision of carbon neutrality, in line with its ambitious environmental strategy; Future...
Europe: Researchers win prize for drying technology
Drying is used in many industrial processes, for example in food production, and drying processes account for a substantial part of energy consumption in...
Americas: Crown to reduce energy consumption
By the end of 2020, Crown aims to reduce energy consumption by 5% per billion standard units of production from 2015 levels.
In the same...
Americas: Association opens applications for packaging awards
The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has opened applications for the 5th annual Excellence in Reusable Packaging award, which recognizes organizations that have developed and...
Americas: SIG carton packs to don FSC logo
With a global network of cardboard suppliers who are certified according to the criteria of the ForestStewardship Council (FSC), from August 2016, 100% SIG...
Europe: Nestlé Waters opens Swiss biogas plant
After works lasting more than one year, Nestlé Waters and Groupe E Greenwatt have inaugurated Switzerland’s largest agricultural biogas plant in Treize-Cantons, next to...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra upgrades NZ plant to capture lactose
Fonterra upgrades its Edgecumbe site to capture lactose that was previously unable to be extracted from the site’s waste stream by creatively applying existing...
Americas: Dow’s technology creates recyclable pouches
Dow releases RecycleReady Technology, which helps converters create barrier pouches that answer consumer demand for more recyclable packaging options.
Created with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition...
Asia Pacific: Green packaging film derived from BASF technology
Southeast Asian film manufacturer A.J. Plast has developed biaxial-oriented polyamide (BOPA) films that adopted BASF’s Ultramid biomass balance polyamide, which is derived from renewable...