UK-based soft drinks producer Britvic has developed a wood fibre bottle as a viable packaging option for several sectors. Developed as part of the company's sustainability strategy program, the new wood fibre packaging technology helps to ...
Tags: soft drinks, wood fibre bottle
McDonald's has announced that as of October 2015, all centrally-sourced packaging that is distributed across its 38 European markets is chain-of-custody certified, with wood fibre coming from recycled sources or forests certified to one of ...
Tags: Mcdonald, wood fibre, board products
Tetra Pak has entered the growing category of ambient drinking yoghurt with its aseptic packages. This type of product, which requires no refrigeration, now accounts for 13 per cent of China's yoghurt category and is expected to achieve ...
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
Tetra Pak is planning a push in the food packaging market with its cartonboard packaging offering. Tetra Recart was the first retortable carton package which enabled filled product to be sterilized within the package. A direct ...
Working with Kingfisher and IKEA, the two year initiative of the three founding members, Kingfisher, Tetra Pak, and IKEA aims to develop a methodology to analyse the impact of FSC certification, enabling businesses to understand what value ...
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The European Union Committee of the House of Lords has recently published a report, 'Counting the cost of food waste: EU food waste prevention', which looks at the issue of food waste and what steps can be taken to reduce it. The report ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging
UPM was announced as the sector leader for the materials industry at the launch of CDP’s forests annual report. CDP’s forests program asks companies to disclose their exposure to deforestation risks through their use of five ...
Tags: materials industry, Textile
Fortress Paper Ltd. announces that that China's Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") has made a preliminary determination to impose an interim duty on the import of Canadian dissolving pulp into China. The interim duty applied against the ...
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A new study indicates that Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) used to ship fruit and vegetables in Canada pose a risk for contamination. The report, developed by a University of Guelph researcher, calls the possibility for ...
Tags: Containers, Ship Produce
The study looked into the chain of custody commitment made by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). The group is made up of Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc. At 88%, ACE said that its members were “well ...
Tags: Wood Sourcing, ACE
There has been a great deal of comment in the press about the new regulation EUTR that is designed to help stamp out the global problem of illegal logging and, especially in the tropics, deforestation. The law covers timber and timber ...
The document, titled ‘Shaping our sustainable future’, reported that all Mondi-branded papers produced at their uncoated fine paper mills fulfilled the Green Range criteria, eight new land claims were settled in South Africa and ...
Tags: Packaging, branded papers
Adcellpack, which runs until the end of October 2014, will develop a thermoplastic wood-fibre-based packaging material for trays used primarily in packages of sliced cheese. Common MAP packaging structures are based on non-renewable ...
Tags: Adcellpack, wood-fibre-based packaging material, sliced cheese
Jeans developed by a Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design student, using a fibre made from sustainable wood instead of cotton, could be the key to cutting carbon emissions in the jeans industry around the world. Saving energy and ...
Tags: Jeans, fibre, sustainable wood, cotton