Sidel presents NUUK, the new rPET water bottle concept inspired by Greenland

Sidel’s art designers have created the NUUK bottle concept, drawing inspiration from the purity of ice and its formations.  The NUUK brand takes its name from Greenland’s capital and the fjords that make it famous. The “Frozen, Authentic, Unique” slogan highlights the brand’s attributes, which are closely linked to water and

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Sleever’s LDPET rewarded for its full body sleeve compatible with clear PET bottle recycling

Each year,the AWA International Sleeve Label Awards recognise the world’s most innovative sleeve products (heat-shrink labels). The award for environmental contribution was recently given to Sleever for its LDPET product, a full-body sleeve to enable enhanced recyclability of PET bottles. Developed exclusively by Sleever, LDPET has assisted brands with their ecological

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Avient ColorForward experts predict pandemic to influence colour preferences

Avient Corporation, a provider of specialised and sustainable material solutions and services, announced that Avient ColorWorks has launched ColorForward 2022. This 16th edition of the annual colour forecasting guide for the plastics industry marks its debut within Avient, which was formed this year from legacy businesses PolyOne and Clariant Masterbatch. As

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Filtec showcases its Intellect Vision Glue-On label solutions for bottles

This solution from Filtec ensures that only well-presented, correctly labeled bottles are shipped, helping promote sales and repeat business, while reducing customer complaints. The Vision Glue-On Label solution inspects paper, plastic and ceramic labels that cover the neck and body areas of each bottle following the labeler. Accurate registration alignment of

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CCL invests in sustainable film project to boost recycling

Specialty label, security and packaging solutions company CCL Industries Inc. announces plans for a strategic new capacity investment at their Innovia Films extrusion site in Plock, Poland. A new six-metre multi-layer co-extrusion line will be installed to produce EcoFloat shrink sleeve material. This hybrid polyolefin film facilitates easy separation of labels

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Minimalist label design

CCL Kontur has been entrusted by Coca-Cola to develop the label printing technology for the new “Rich” product range of cold storage juices. The goal was to highlight the naturalness of the product itself keeping the concept of a minimalist label design.  The Russian printing house CCL Kontur worked together with

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Fastest-rising local cocoa processor in Ghana branche out to drinks

Niche Cocoa Industry Ltd. were founded in 2011 and currently manufacture high quality, semi-finished cocoa products for export, such as cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa cake and cocoa powder. In 2017, Niche commenced the production of chocolate for the local and international market. Today, Niche Cocoa are the fastest-rising local cocoa

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Report: Plastic recycling labelling confusing and inconsistent

A global assessment of recycling and sustainability labelling on plastic packaging has found only 17% of assessed labels give consumers quality information to make informed recycling and purchasing decisions. The research from the UN Environment Programme, Consumers International and the One Planet network found that 20% of the 30 worldwide labels

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Multi-Color Corporation has signed the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Statement

The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Statement includes goals about the actions that signatory companies will take to drive toward a circular economy. These approaches include redesign to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic as well as innovation to ensure that plastic is reusable, recyclable, or compostable. There have been more than

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