November 2020

COVID-19 vaccine

‘Fundamental shift’ in biologic packaging to ‘revolutionize’ COVID-19 vaccine delivery

Jurata Thin Film is bringing to market its technology, which allows biologics and vaccines to be packaged, shipped, and stored at room temperature for extended periods of time. MSI-TX Thin Film enables up to 500 doses of a vaccine to be placed on a single wafer-thin 8.5 -11-inch (216 x 280mm) sheet of film, weighing just 5g.

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Kiwi Packaging

How Packaging Defined Success for Kiwi in India

Zespri International— world’s largest marketer of kiwi fruit states that India is the strongest emergent market for kiwis adding that among all exotic fruits, Kiwi has witnessed the fastest growth, with a compound annual growth rate of 80-100%. Therefore, packaging for higher quantities of kiwi emerged and became a significant factor in its consumption growth.

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SABIC

MARS AND HUHTAMAKI JOIN SABIC’S TRUCIRCLE™ INITIATIVE FOR PET FOOD PACKAGING BASED ON CERTIFIED CIRCULAR POLYPROPYLENE

SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced that polypropylene (PP) film based on the company’s certified circular PP from feedstock recycling of used plastics will be introduced in primary pet food brand packaging by Mars, Incorporated, a global leader in confectionery, food, and pet food products.

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Maire Tecnimont Group’s NextChem

Maire Tecnimont Group’s NextChem and Indian Oil Corp sign India’s first circular economy MoU

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that NextChem, the Group’s subsidiary dedicated to green chemistry and technologies for the energy transition, and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IndianOil), today have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of industrial projects using NextChem technologies to foster the industrialization of circular economy in India. The projects will be focused on plastics recycling, producing biofuels from renewable feedstock and circular fuels and chemicals from non-recyclable waste.

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APK enables the use of plastic recyclates in cosmetic packaging

APK enables the use of plastic recyclates in cosmetic packaging – Toxicological evaluations confirm quality of Newcycling® LDPE recyclate

APK’s Newcycling®-process with its physical, solvent-based recycling technology generates plastic recyclates of close to virgin quality, which are suitable to be used in cosmetic packaging.

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kitkat

KITKAT Launches Special ‘Glow in the Dark’ Packs to Bring Cheer this Festive Season

This festive season, KITKAT brings a brand first innovation with ‘Glow-in-the-Dark’ packs to help youngsters.
These first of its kind packs reinforce the message that if you ‘look for it’, you will find happy reasons to not only make you smile but also bring a smile to someone else.

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Packaging Impact

The Packaging Impact : Empty space, sustainability and customer satisfaction

An efficient supply chain is a vital customer winning factor in today’s highly competitive world. McKinsey1 highlights “sustainability requirements increasing at every step of the value chain” as one of the five major packaging industry trends.

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of financial, environmental, and customer satisfaction factors of transporting empty, unoptimized space. The first part of the study is based on logistics-related books, academic research papers, industry surveys, and whitepapers.

The second part aims to acquaint the reader with existing regulations and real world packaging optimization implementation cases.

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Paper bags

Key Considerations When Ordering Paper Bags

Urja Packaging, a Delhi based company, are suppliers to many national retail chains and have mostly found that the paper bags they were sourcing before us were diverging from the details mentioned in the purchase order and this was causing a loss of 5% in almost all cases and 33% in the worst cases for our clients. So they decided to open all techniques that a purchase manager can use to ensure adherence to the details mentioned in the PO and level the playing field.

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