Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/29/2012 4:04:27 PM The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue, is pleased to announce additional participants in the soft ...
Tags: SPC, How2Recycle on-package, How2Recycle Label, recycling labeling system
The Malongo coffee company was founded in 1934 in Nice, France. According to Walki, its brief was to deliver a barrier for the pod frame, and a paper-based packaging material for the individual pods, observing the need of recyclability ...
Tags: Malongo coffee company, formable paper, coffee pods board ring
CROWN Beverage Packaging North America, a business unit of Crown has announced the launch of a new 10oz beverage can that offers an alternative to traditional drink packaging for specialty beverage brands. According to CROWN, the can has ...
Tags: Recyclable Beverage Can, Beverage Can, Beverage Packaging
The PET Resin Association (PETRA) has unveiled a recyclability assessment model that includes testing and evaluation criteria for special-use and innovative resins having a low market presence. The company's officials say their ...
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
Avery Dennison's new Bottle-to-Bottle (B2B) film portfolio aims to address the easy removal of labels for PET reclamation programs. The B2B range is built on clear/white BOPP film facestock anchored by SR3010, a switchable adhesive, which ...
HJ Heinz Canada is all set to unveil its new eco-friendly ketchup bottle later this month. The bottle is made from up to 30% plant-based material, using Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle packaging. The new packaging is made with a process ...
Tags: ketchup bottle, Eco-Friendly Bottle, PlantBottle packaging
The Brazilian Aluminium Association and the Brazilian Association of Aluminium Cans of High Recyclability have announced that Brazil topped all its previous aluminium can recycling efforts by accomplishing a historic rate of over 98% in ...
An unusual new LED downlight fitting from Flos combines desirable beam characteristics with flexible aesthetic detailing through the use of acrylic 'pipes'. Peter Stuart sees BDP's Mark Ridler put it through a bench test ...
Canada-based Eco Entreprises Quebec (EEQ) has announced the launch of the Voluntary Code for the Optimization of Containers, Packaging and Printed Matter intended for companies targeted by the curbside recycling compensation plan. The ...
UK-based Pyrolytic recycling specialist Enval has procured premises to build its first commercial scale microwave induced pyrolysis system for recovering energy and materials from foil-containing flexible packaging. The new premises in ...
Tags: Pyrolysis Packaging Recycling Plant, foil-containing flexible packaging
The EU-funded team of researchers, a consortium consisting of experts from Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Hungary and Slovenia and led by the Spain-based Patronal de la Petita i Mitjana Empresa de Catalunya (PIMEC) has developed a new ...
UK-based retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced plans to roll out new packaging, which will extend the fruit life stored in the fridge by up to two days. According to the retail giant, M&S will consider adding the innovative strips to ...
Tags: fruit packaging, food waste, fruit life
Global specialty chemicals company Eastman has added the new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer, Aspira One to its portfolio of resins, which can be used for beverage packaging applications. Molded for electron beam melting (EBM) ...
Novelis, a provider of aluminum automotive sheet, will invest $100m to build a new its first automotive sheet manufacturing plant in Changzhou, China. The new Changzhou plant, which will be built on more than 160 acres, will have a ...