25 August is „Cardboard Day“. We show you what you can do with cardboard packaging and the latest news about this - unfortunately currently very valuable - packaging material.
Whether folding cartons, cardboard boxes or corrugated cardboard containers - cardboard packaging is the ideal shipping and outer packaging for goods of all types and sizes. There are good reasons to celebrate them almost every day. Traditionally on 25 August, however, cartons make a particularly big splash - with their own day.
A second life for outer packaging
Last year, TV manufacturer Samsung changed the packaging of its Serif, Frame and Sero lifestyle televisions. Since then, the boxes have been made from reinforced corrugated cardboard, which buyers can use to create something after unpacking. This creative video shows the possibilities:
The latest news about the carton
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JH Holding acquires stakes in Akarton and Poprawa
Nextpack replaces polystyrene with honeycomb cardboard
Perlen gets into moulded fibre packaging
Tetra Pak invests in barrier technology
Major order for packaging factory in Egypt
Heavy lifting accident in packaging plant leads to heavy fine
Sustainable tubes for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals
The Imker Group becomes a shareholder of Faller Packaging
Translucent paper seal labels for pharmaceutical packaging
Edelmann Group appoints Uwe Väth to the management board
Grenadier Packaging takes over MM Packaging Leeuwarden
Perfecta examines investor solution in self-administration
EU study sheds light on the sustainability of food contact materials
Mondi develops recyclable paper packaging for bicycles
Groupe Guillin takes over Gruyaert and V de V in Belgium
Gissler & Pass initiates reorganisation of the Rodenberg site
Why the ink makes the difference
Faller Packaging presents efficient packaging concepts for the pharmaceutical industry
Packaging characterises the balance sheet at Marbach
Saica takes over parts of FCC Ámbito's waste paper business in Spain
Top Ten 2025: Smurfit Westrock closes plants in Hanau and Lübbecke
„These regulations tie up enormous resources“
Double-digit growth in plantable packaging
Transferred reorganisation saves Casimir Kast
Koehler Group takes over logistics company Klumpp + Müller
Sacchital expands capacities with new flexographic printing hall
VPK Group increases stake in Ribble Packaging
PCA reorganises Wallula containerboard plant
VerpackDG: Associations warn of additional costs
FKN criticises special national regulation on PPWR
Graphic Packaging's new recycled cartonboard plant in operation
Hinojosa takes over French ASV Packaging completely
Confectionery packaging: plastic-free for Christmas
Papacks scales moulded fibre packaging to industrial quantities
Palm strengthens packaging division with joint venture in the Czech Republic
Search for investors for Casimir Kast makes progress
Dry defibration for packaging that is difficult to recycle
Mondi officially inaugurates new paper machine at Štětí mill
Uhlmann develops new carton trays for parenterals
More than half of Lego's packaging lines rely on paper-based bags
WM includes to-go cups in the household collection of recyclable materials
Bel starts worldwide changeover to paper packaging
Green sensor label protects sensitive goods
Amcor is looking for innovations
Shoe boxes remain subject to system participation
Dental care for animals in paper packaging from Koehler
New packaging design for the Pritt stick
Wintipak starts expansion of the plant in Halle
