

Berry supplies Coca-Cola with Tethered Caps
Berry is now the first manufacturer in Europe to supply Coca-Cola with tethered closures to comply with the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive.
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RECYCLABLE WRAP FOR FOOD PACKAGING
As a part of their sustainability strategies and to foster a conscious use of resources, it is becoming more and more important for companies in the packaging sector to achieve the highest possible degree of packaging recyclability. This extends to composite packaging for food. Composite film manufacturer allvac has had the recyclability of a new film certified by the cyclos-HTP institute.

ADDED VALUE THROUGH COOPERATION
Even if some company CEOs would prefer differently: Nobody can be the market leader in everything. Some companies therefore enter into cooperations to be able to offer their customers more comprehensive and adapted solutions. Around 86,000 cooperations outside the proprietary business group have been noted by the EU Statistical Office since 2020, involving small and medium-sized enterprises within the EU. The example of Koch Pac-Systeme and Zahoransky shows the details of how such a cooperation can work.
Packaging technology

Sidel installs blow-moulder in Nigeria
Sidel sold its 1,000th EvoBlow blow-moulder and will install it in a high-speed PET water line at StrongPack in Nigeria, the fastest line in Africa.Â

Berry shows recycling technology in Paris
Berry Global will present its CleanStream, a recycling technology for contact sensitive applications, at ADF Talks, part of Paris Packaging Week.

Everything labelled and stacked
The string labelling system from Logopak together with linerless labels fulfill the ecological catalogue of requirements of the Rothaus State Brewery.
Packaging materials

RECYCLABLE WRAP FOR FOOD PACKAGING
As a part of their sustainability strategies and to foster a conscious use of resources, it is becoming more and more important for companies in the packaging sector to achieve the highest possible degree of packaging recyclability. This extends to composite packaging for food. Composite film manufacturer allvac has had the recyclability of a new film certified by the cyclos-HTP institute.

Bacteria eats plastic
In a laboratory experiment at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Marine Research, it was proven that the bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats plastic.

CCL Label introduces thinnest stretch-sleeve
With a thickness of 30 microns CCL Label introduces the thinnest stretch sleeve to date, which is suitable for 1-litre PET returnable bottles.Â
Green packaging

EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL – AMBITIOUS CONCEPT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY IN EUROPE
In December 2019, the European Commission unveiled their hitherto most ambitious plan: With the European Green Deal, the net emissions of all countries belonging to the European Union are to be reduced to zero by 2050. A circular economy is one of the most important components of this plan. The latest step of the EU Commission is a suggestion presented at the end of November for a Europe-wide packaging regulation.

Berry facility receives RecyClass certification
Berry Superfos wants to be transparent about its packaging materials and has now certified its facility La GenĂŞte, France, with RecyClass.

Henkel Sustainability Days 2022 sets the agenda for truly sustainable packaging
Henkel’s third Sustainability Days virtual conference once again proved an essential event for the global packaging and consumer goods industry. Held from November 30 to December 1, Sustainability Days 2022 brought together 1,500 attendees from 650 companies and 81 countries to discuss the industry’s response to urgent sustainability needs.
Marketing and design

Learning English through play
A playful cardboard packaging, that teaches children the Latin alphabet, was awarded the German Packaging Prize in the Young Talent category.

Ardagh designs golden vodka can
Choosing a highly reflective gold colour for the can body, end and tab, Au Vodka have worked with Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) to create an irresistibly charismatic pack with immense visual impact.

Mondi wins Swiss Packaging Award for sustainability
Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, has been recognised by the Swiss Packaging Institute (SVI) for its RetortPouch Recyclable solution. The packaging won the Swiss Packaging Award for the Sustainability category and was developed for Coop’s private label range of healthy pulses and grains sold in Switzerland.
Company news

ADDED VALUE THROUGH COOPERATION
Even if some company CEOs would prefer differently: Nobody can be the market leader in everything. Some companies therefore enter into cooperations to be able to offer their customers more comprehensive and adapted solutions. Around 86,000 cooperations outside the proprietary business group have been noted by the EU Statistical Office since 2020, involving small and medium-sized enterprises within the EU. The example of Koch Pac-Systeme and Zahoransky shows the details of how such a cooperation can work.

TRAINING TO OVERCOME THE LACK OF SKILLED PROFESSIONALS
Next to the energy crisis, the lack of resources, problems along the supply chain and the constant issue of sustainability, it is the lack of trained professionals that continues to affect the industry. Added to this is the fact that existing staff keep being confronted with continually new machine technology and new materials. Schubert meets both challenges with an expanded training concept.

Dry Molded Fiber expands to North American market
SustainaPac LLC has joined PulPac’s licensee network aiming to strengthen the shift from single-use plastics to more sustainable alternatives.
Products

Berry supplies Coca-Cola with Tethered Caps
Berry is now the first manufacturer in Europe to supply Coca-Cola with tethered closures to comply with the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive.

SAFE PROTECTION UNDER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS
When goods are transported from A to B, things do not always happen according to plan – accidents may occur, or the transport packaging may have to resist difficult conditions. Especially for easily flammable substances, this can become a problem. A new combination IBC by Schütz now offers filling goods double protection. The company also uses recyclates for their three-layer IBC containers.

Product safety with tamper-evident closures
Rieke presents a new tamper-evident closure that provides product and brand protection. The IMF-5 In-Mold Flexspout is a closure for plastic pails.Â
Fairs and exhibitions

Where is the packaging industry heading?
Times are anything but rosy. War in Europe, exploding energy prices, shortage of raw materials and high inflation. Against this background, the packaging industry met at Fachpack in Nuremberg – and was surprisingly optimistic. At the end, six packaging experts shared their impressions of the trade fair and their personal assessments of where the packaging industry is heading in these times in our packaging journal Live Talk.

All4Pack Paris is in the starting blocks
After a four-year break, All4Pack will be held again in Paris in November. The world has changed in the meantime and the trade fair concept has adapted to the new circumstances accordingly.

That was Fachpack 2022
More than 1,150 exhibitors, around 32,000 visitors, three days of packaging in the spotlight – that’s a brief numerical summary of this year’s Fachpack. But that would hardly do justice to the full scope and significance of the packaging trade fair. After all, at the end of September in Nuremberg, not only were hands shaken, business cards exchanged and kilometres made, but ideas were compared, innovations presented and business relationships initiated. And packaging journal was right in the middle of it all.