Delivering Happiness Limited, parent company of Packamama, has appointed Richard Lloyd to lead groundwork for next-generation wine packaging facility

Delivering Happiness Limited, parent company of Packamama, has appointed Richard Lloyd to lead groundwork for next-generation wine packaging facility

17 Jun 202513 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 547 Views 2 min read

Delivering Happiness Limited, parent company of sustainable packaging company Packamama, has appointed Richard Lloyd to help lay the foundations for what could evolve into a next-generation wine packaging and bottling facility. This appointment also marks the start of a strategic collaboration to strengthen Packamama’s current operations while looking ahead to what

Materials Packaging / Palletising Recycling

UK consumers confused by recycling labels, study finds

12 Jun 202511 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 463 Views 3 min read

New research from Aquapak, which specialises in developing materials to reduce plastic pollution and improve recycling, shows that the majority (70%) of British consumers admit they are confused by what packaging can and can’t be recycled. Just one in five (21%) say they always read the recycling instructions on product packaging;

Bottles / Bottle Making

Gentlebrand transforms Tashkentskaya mineral water for premium PET launch

11 Jun 202510 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 491 Views 1 min read

Gentlebrand Design Agency, part of the Sidel family, has partnered with Toshmineralsuv to bring a new level of refinement to its flagship product: the Tashkentskaya mineral water. Long celebrated for its purity and drawn from a natural spring 1,371m underground, the water now arrives in a sleek, contemporary PET format designed

Companies Recycling

Prime Waste Solutions strengthens efforts to cut plastic waste through PET bottle recovery in the Philippines

10 Jun 202510 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 792 Views 1 min read

Prime Integrated Waste Solutions (PWS), a subsidiary of Prime Infra, has launched a key resource recovery initiative involving the collection and diversion of post-consumer plastic bottles. PWS’ materials recovery facility (MRF) in Cebu recently completed its first delivery of 6.2 t of baled PET bottles to the largest bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in

Companies People

Stadler appoints eighth-generation family member Julia Stadler as Co-Chief Executive Officer

6 Jun 20254 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 505 Views 2 min read

Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH, the globally active German company specialising in the planning, production, and assembly of turnkey recycling and sorting plants, announced the appointment of Julia Stadler as Co-Chief Executive Officer, effective June 1, 2025. This step reinforces Stadler’s long-standing tradition of family leadership and embraces a forward-looking, sustainability-driven approach. The

Companies Materials

Alpek will cease operations at its PET facility in North Carolina

4 Jun 20254 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 416 Views 0 min read

Alpek, S.A.B. de C.V. announced the strategic decision to cease operations at its Cedar Creek facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina by July 31, 2025. The site, acquired by Alpek in 2001, has an installed capacity of 170,000t of PET resin and approximately 35,000t of rPET flake production. This decision is aligned

Recycling Sustainability

EUROPEN launches an interactive PPWR Guidebook

4 Jun 20253 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 425 Views 1 min read

EUROPEN has released a new interactive guidebook designed to help businesses navigate the evolving requirements of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Whether companies are starting to review the Regulation or already adapting to the upcoming changes, this practical tool intends to provide a structured overview of the regulatory

Companies Recycling

Tomra Recycling appoints Katrin Fricke as its new Head and Executive Vice President (EVP)

3 Jun 20252 Jun 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 701 Views 2 min read

Tomra Recycling has announced the appointment of Katrin Fricke as its new Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Tomra Recycling, effective June 1, 2025. Fricke succeeds Dr. Volker Rehrmann, who earlier this year announced his retirement from Tomra after over two decades with the business. Katrin Fricke brings a wealth

Companies Recycling

Carbios signs its first biorecycled PET sales contracts with two global cosmetics leaders

30 May 202530 May 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 797 Views 1 min read

Carbios has signed its first multi-year offtake contracts with L’Oréal and L’Occitane en Provence for biorecycled rPET from its future commercial plant in Longlaville, France. The agreements mark a step in the company’s efforts to scale enzymatic recycling technology, which aims to provide an alternative method for producing recycled PET suitable

Bottling / Filling Packaging / Palletising

International Bottled Water Association: Bottled water growth rate outperforms all other packaged drinks, by volume

29 May 202527 May 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 960 Views 3 min read

America’s favorite packaged drink, bottled water, had the highest volume growth rate of all other beverages in 2024, the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) reports, according to new data from the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC). Nearly all other drinks had negative growth in 2024, reaffirming that bottled water’s robust performance is

Companies Sustainability

KHS publishes 2024 sustainability report

27 May 202527 May 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 567 Views 2 min read

KHS GmbH has restructured its voluntary reporting process. The systems provider for the filling and packaging industry has now brought its sustainability report further into line with the EU reporting standard and is disclosing additional non-financial KPIs. “We’ve come a good step further in 2024. This is mainly thanks to the