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Volpak’s contribution to sustainability
Volpak, a manufacturer of horizontal form-fill machines for flexible pouches, has opened its PouchLAB to develop sustainable packaging solutions.
Global revenue of PET bottles to reach $25bn
The global revenue of PET preforms market is predicted to reach beyond US$ 25bn by 2028, according to research by Future Market Insights.
Scotland confirms deposit returns scheme
The Scottish Government has announced details of proposals for a deposit return scheme, with a 20p refundable deposit levied on all glass and plastics bottles and drinks cans.
Garcon Wines bottles up sustainability
DS Smith helps Garçon Wines ‘advance wine packaging into the 21st century, create an innovative and truly sustainable wine bottle that makes the planet healthier, industry wealthier and society happier’ in its secondary packaging.
Sleaford Quality Foods to change to white plastic packaging
Sleaford Quality Foods (SQF) has revealed it is converting all its plastic packaging from black to white.
Mondi and Pacoon offer a roadmap for making packaging more sustainable
Following this year’s ProSweets, packaging manufacturer, Mondi, found that customers and consumers ‘lack understanding’ about the challenges faced when making packaging more sustainable.
UK bottled water sales top 4 billion litres
Last year’s hot summer boosted UK water drinks consumption by more than 7% to 4.2bn litres, according to a new report from food and drink analysts Zenith Global.
Schur Flexibles increases sustainability efforts
Flexible packaging provider, Schur Flexibles Group, has published its sustainability strategy along the principle guidelines of “rethink”.
APR recognises recyclability of FreshSafe PET
KHS has had its FreshSafe PET technology acknowledged by APR as meeting or exceeding APR’s most stringent critical guidance criteria for recyclability.
Sun Chemical joins Ceflex
Sun Chemical has joined Ceflex, the collaborative European consortium of companies and associations representing the entire flexible packaging value chain.
Global packaging trends
Market Intelligence agency, Mintel, has announced four trends impacting the global packaging industry in 2019 and beyond.
Nestlé and Veolia join forces to tackle plastic waste
Nestlé and Veolia, the world’s leading resource management company, will collaborate on the collection, sorting and recycling of waste plastic material.
Sleaford Quality Foods makes green packaging pledge
Sleaford Quality Foods (SQF), a cross-category supplier of multiple packaged foods, has made a pledge to ensure all its packaging is recyclable or compostable by 2022.
Packaging Innovations enjoys record breaking year
Packaging Innovations, Empack and Label&Print saw a record breaking year at Birmingham’s NEC, with 300 industry suppliers, and almost 7,000 visitors.
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