New figures have revealed that UK local authorities collecting beverage cartons for recycling from kerbside has reached 66%. The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE ) UK said it was a 16-fold increase on 2006 levels ...
Tags: beverage cartons, beverage
Stora Enso is set to invest around €9m into its consumer board mills in Finland and Sweden, as part of its efforts to commercialise microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) in paperboard packaging. The firm will invest in consumer board ...
Tags: Paperboard Packaging, Stora Enso
A Finnish research and product development company Spinnova is developing fibre to yarn (F2Y) technology which is completely different from traditional textile yarn production. F2Y technology uses no chemicals to dissolve wood fibre to a ...
Tags: F2Y, VTT Technical Research Centre, Textile
Food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody (CoC) certification for all of its converting plants and market companies, making it eligible to supply FSC labelled packages ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Custody Certification, Packaging
The proportion of UK local authorities collecting beverage cartons for recycling from kerbside has reached 60%, according to figures released by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK. ACE stated that this was a ...
Tags: Beverage, wood fibres, Agriculture
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
Minister for Resource Management, Lord de Mauley, officially opened the UK's only dedicated beverage carton recycling facility, located in Stainland (near Halifax), West Yorkshire (3 September). The new facility in Stainland near Halifax ...
The U.S. market for long-life food packaging is in a state of flux. Traditionally, the food metal can is the conventional and most widely-used packaging solution for ready-to-serve soups, broths and tomato products. But today's consumers ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Alternative Packaging
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK, which represents Elopak, SIG Combibloc and Tetra Pak, and paper and packaging producer Sonoco Alcore have teamed up to establish a beverage carton recycling facility in Halifax, ...
Tags: Carton Recycling, beverage cartons, paperboard products
A new wood-plastic composite material for industrial and consumer end-uses is being launched by UPM. The new product, made from virgin wood fibres and clean plastic polymers, is aimed at use in furniture, tableware and other everyday living ...
Tags: market view, new products