Counterfeit-proof and Individualized: Industry 4.0 Packaging
Smart industry is one of the best-known megatrends of the modern age. This buzzword stands for the interconnection and optimisation of production workflows.
Smart industry is one of the best-known megatrends of the modern age. This buzzword stands for the interconnection and optimisation of production workflows.
Clariant gives the recycling potential of black plastics a much-needed boost. At K 2019, it will launch the first range of near infrared (NIR)-detectable black pigments and dyes applicable to a wide variety of recyclable plastics.
Tetra Pak has joined the European Commission Graphene Flagship project as the exclusive representative from the packaging industry to explore possible future applications of graphene in food and beverage (F&B) manufacturing.
Beyond Juice is the result of our project launched in answer to one of the most pressing issues of our day and age – how to avoid waste by recycling packaging. Beyond Juice is committed to the concept of the full circular economy and combines several sustainable KHS approaches to this in a single container.
All aluminium cans are equally recyclable, no matter the colour, design, format or size. Recycling aluminium consumes 95% less energy than producing it from raw material, while the recycling process generates only 5% of the greenhouse gas emissions produced from raw material production.
Futamura, the global leader for sustainable cellulose films, announces the launch of a new product to market, ‘NatureFlexTM 30NVO’, an ovenable grade of its landmark compostable NatureFlexTM films.
DOW expands its portfolio of solvent-based adhesives with the new ADCOTE™ L76-500 high-solids adhesive, opening new opportunities beyond traditional metal-to-film lamination.
Sukano and Sidel have proved that white opaque masterbatch formulations can be used in PET monolayer bottles, and still be processed at the same machine throughput using Sidel’s EvoBLOW, with no impact on colour, properties, functionality, or production rates.