Round-Up: Packaging
Here is your weekly round-up of packaging news. Next week’s round-up will focus on processing news. To submit an item for inclusion, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com.
- The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures on carton recycling in the EU, showing that 44% of beverage cartons were recycled in 2015, continuing an unbroken, 10-year upward trend.
- Europe needs to take specific measures to formalise the informal recycling of aluminum beverage cans, according to a study by Boku University.
- Market research company Euromonitor International has released new analysis on the potential impact of brexit on industries and consumers.
- Papermaker James Cropper has launched its first food contact approved range of papers, Dolcelicious.
- Mitie is taking part in WRAP’s Recycle Week (12-18 September), in partnership with eight clients.
- The majority of UK consumers are open to in-pack cooking with Bemis OvenRite, finds a recent consumer study.
- Coconut flavoured rum brand Malibu has released its new ‘connected’ bottles.
- A company developing a food freshness solution is being supported in its research and development work by the Institute of Food Science and Innovation at the University of Chester, UK.
- The EU food and beverage glass packaging industry has turned into a very stable business compared to other packaging materials, with no growth and, perhaps surprisingly, still relatively high margins, finds Rabobank.
