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A new stackable jar from Berry Global offers a valuable space saving solution on retail shelves, through e-commerce channels and in the home. At the same time, the jar provides consumer convenience, and its effective product protection, reusability and recyclability enhance its environmental profile. The new design of the 500ml Staka
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The current progress report issued by the internationally known Ellen MacArthur Foundation clearly shows that the medium-sized company Werner & Mertz not only set lofty goals for recycling use, but also has taken a worldwide lead in implementation. Those goals—by 2025 all packaging will be 100% recyclable and made of 100%
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In a collaboration for the New Zealand market, Erema and Amut have finalised the installation and commissioning of Alto packaging’s first extrusion line for food grade PET sheets. At the Alto Plastic Packaging site in Albany, the plant now processes 100 % washed post-consumer flakes into 100% food contact grade monolayer
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The 2nd edition of WPO (World Packaging Organisation) ‘Packaging Trends Report’ is ready for free download at WPO webpage or can be accessed through the link https://worldpackaging.org/resources/28/. The document, written and produced by the packaging editor and specialist Liliam Benzi, that is also WPO Press & Communication Liaison Officer, brings a
Read moreAustria’s market leader in the mineral water market, Vöslauer Mineralwasser GmbH, is concretising its plans to relaunch the first and so far only PET returnable container in Austria. “In Austria, PET reusable containers were common until the 1990s, but they disappeared from the shelves completely due to a lack of demand.
Read moreGlobal packaging leader TricorBraun announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cormack Packaging (“Cormack”), a leading packaging supplier in Australia and New Zealand, establishing the company’s footprint in the region. Serving customers with rigid packaging needs for more than 80 years, Cormack primarily serves the food and beverage,
Read moreThe Plastics Industry Association announced shipments of primary plastics machinery (injection moulding and extrusion) in North America decreased for the second consecutive quarter according to the statistics compiled and reported by the association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). The preliminary estimate of shipment value from reporting companies totaled $320.9 million in
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Aptar Food + Beverage announces its recyclable SimpliCycle valve will be launched within new Kraft Heinz Ketchup packaging. In addition to Heinz Ketchup, other Kraft Heinz brands including Heinz Mustard, Heinz Mashups, and Heinz BBQ Sauce, will convert to the SimpliCycle valve by the end of the year. Testing was coordinated and
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The school milk in Upper Austria is now packaged in 100% sustainable cups made of recycled PET (rPET). The joint project of Austrian school milk producers and the three Upper Austrian companies PET-MAN, Greiner Packaging and Starlinger viscotec is revolutionising the food packaging market and proves that a sustainable circular economy
Read moreThe registration window for the next interpack, which will be held from 4 to 10 May 2023 at the Düsseldorf trade fair centre, was set to open this year in autumn. Due to this year’s cancellation (because to the pandemic), which first delayed the trade fair until spring 2021 and then
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Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging, announced plans to build two new state-of-the-art innovation centers. The new facilities in Ghent, Belgium, and Jiangyin, China, will welcome customers as of mid-2022, with full build-out over the next two years. The total investment is expected to be approximately $35
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