By now, the tube is over 150 years old: In 1841, the American John Goffe Rand obtained the patent for this container, which at the time was still being made out of tin. At first glance, the basic concept has not changed much in the meantime. However, there are developments on today’s tube market that we should keep an eye on.
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has unveiled a state-of-the-art flexo printing line at its plant in Gronau, Germany. The new machinery will service the hygiene industry’s growing demand for advanced printing options for films and laminates and deliver greater flexibility in feminine care pouch wrapping designs and film choices.
When it comes to wrapping pallets, the current industry standard is a multi-layer plastic material with sometimes low recycling rates. With Advantage StretchWrap, Mondi now offers a new, lightweight paper that has been specifically designed to wrap pallets, and can be recycled to boot.
In November 2021, things changed for Coca-Cola customers: the bottle caps of the company’s popular beverages suddenly looked a bit different.
A new report from Finland’s Technical Research Center (VTT), “Recycling Food Packaging”, highlights those technology solutions expected to become commercially available in the next five years and says partnerships are essential to deliver the necessary technological innovations in food packaging recycling.
One trend that has clearly come to the fore within the packaging industry in the last months and years is the shift towards paper-based packaging. But the rise in demand is increasingly putting a strain on supply, and packaging manufacturers aren’t the only ones facing raw material shortages, both when it comes to virgin fibre and waste paper.
Using recyclates is completely in line with a circular economy. Secondary raw materials are won by recycling plastics that have been disposed of at least once – either as household waste (post-consumer recyclates, PCR) or as production waste (post-industrial recyclates, PIR). The most successful example of this to date are PET bottles: In a genuine cycle covering collection systems, reprocessing and reuse, old materials are given a new lease on life.
Wipak UK launches UK-first recyclable paper wrap for butter. The wrapping can be recycled at kerbside within the paper waste stream and compared to market-standard wraps shows a carbon footprint reduction of 68 percent.
Labels are important components of packaging in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Faller Packaging provides various solutions for different needs where labels are concerned.
Paper packaging has always been part of the panorama in every supermarket. Recently, however, they have also been used in previously unfamiliar areas.
Contaminated or mixed plastic waste is a problem for the circular economy – it cannot be recycled and ends up in landfills or thermal recycling. BASF has now developed polystyrene boxes made from chemically recycled plastic in a joint project with Vartdal Plast and Bremnes Seashore.
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