The brief: To create a style of packaging for the ready meal market that was lightweight and allowed the consumer to see the product itself Client: Tesco Brand: Piing Design: Intelligent Packaging Solutions UK launch date: Summer ...
Tags: packaging, meal market, Intelligent Packaging Solutions, food packaging
In addition to its Starlight and Radyarn flame-retardant, bacteriostatic and UV-stabilized polyester yarn lines, at Heimtextil 2013 RadiciGroup will shine the spotlight on its eco-compatible product lines: r-Starlight, r-Radyarn and ...
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The Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) has unveiled an expo of ground-breaking Re-PET textiles and technologies. According to a TTF press release, ten suppliers are showcasing latest textiles and apparels prepared from recycled PET bottles. ...
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It's a staggering figure – around 2.9m tonnes of food and drink is wasted each year, according to Wrap. It's a number that's been troubling politicians and environmentalists but it is a problem that packaging can help tackle. And ...
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Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
Tags: food, drink, wasted, Packaging, flexible plastics, keeping food fresh
The American Beverage Association is honoring America Recycles Day by supporting a pilot project called "Recycle on the Go" in Palm Beach County, Florida, to increase the amount of recycled cans and bottles and decrease the amount of ...
Tags: Beverage Industry, Public Space Recycling, Space Recycling
At the end of June 2012, Wrap launched the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement with the broad aim of reducing food and associated packaging waste. But what does this mean for the foodservice packaging sector and what steps can be taken to ...
Supermarket chain in the US, Weis Markets has partnered with custom thermoformed packaging solutions supplier Clearly Clean Products to develop new meat trays that are 100% recyclable. The new modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) trays are ...
Tags: Recyclable Meat Trays, Meat Trays, Trays
Midwest Exchange Enterprises has announced that it will set up a new plant for recycling of food-grade post-consumer PET. Likely to be situated beside its existing recycling plant, the new facility spreads over an area of 120,000ft2 with ...
Tags: Recycle Food, recycling of food-grade, post-consumer PET
UK-based packaging design and sourcing specialist New Vision Packaging has completed work on the latest Lee Stafford Christmas range. The Lee Stafford Christmas range comprises four different products, the Argan Oil, Poker Straight, Mini ...
Tags: packaging techniques, polystyrene plastic window, recycled PET
Thermoformed packaging products designer and manufacturer in the US, Placon has announced the launch of its new divided containers, which contain up to 100%, food-safe, post-consumer recycled materials. According to the company, the Fresh ...
Tags: Recyclable Food Containers, Food Containers, divided containers
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said the recycling processes are not unsafe as long as the proportion of rPET from non-food consumer applications does not exceed 5% and are operated under well-defined conditions. This was ...
Bottled water company Nestle Waters North America, a producer of Arrowhead Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water has introduced its new .5L ReBorn bottle that is made with 50% recycled PET (rPET). Arrowhead, which uses rPET, will save ...
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Poole Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of textile fibers and specialist in virgin polyester fibers, recycled fibers, heavy denier, and nonwovens fibers, announced that it has launched a new Full-Circle program for its EcoSure ...
In conjunction with America Recycles Day on Nov.15,Weis Markets has announced a store-wide commitment to use 100 percent recyclable modified atmosphere packaging(MAP)meat trays for its fresh meat products.Weis has partnered exclusively with ...
Tags: America Recycles Day, MAP meat trays, Weis Markets, meat packaging