April 2021

Soap bottles packaging from soap

This liquid soap bottle is made from soap and it dispenses soap too!

What better material to package soap in than soap itself?! The idea for SOAPBOTTLE came to designer Jonna Breitenhuber during her masters’ studies. At its heart, it’s a simple, elegant solution to a rather big problem. Every year, billions of plastic shampoo bottles, conditioner tubes, and soap dispensers enter landfills or get dumped in the oceans. In looking for a suitable material replacement for plastic containers, Breitenhuber arrived at her eureka moment… Just package the liquid soap in, well, solid soap!

Cost Savings Through Packaging SKU Rationalization

Cost Savings Through Packaging SKU Rationalization

Packaging SKU rationalization can drive cost savings opportunities in a few different ways. It may allow a brand to consolidate its packaging material suppliers and purchase fewer structures and sizes. It may provide an opportunity to reduce the amount of packaging material inventory it needs to keep on hand. Reducing the number of packaging SKUs helps a brand to better utilize its warehouse space. It also enables a brand to optimize asset utilization across manufacturing and packaging facilities.

BASF Plastic Waste Chemical recycle plant

BASF, Quantafuel and REMONDIS want to cooperate on chemical recycling of plastic waste

More recycling of plastic waste which otherwise would be incinerated Favorable regulatory environment decisive for implementation April 21, 2021 – BASF, Quantafuel and REMONDIS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate a cooperation in chemical recycling including a joint investment into a pyrolysis plant for plastic waste. It is intended that REMONDIS, one …

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Fully recyclable multilayer mono material pouch

The art of recycling multilayer film

As multilayer film is one the most challenging recycling applications, state-of-the-art technologies in the field of plastics extrusion are in great demand, to provide new recycling-friendly designs. By using multilayer mono material composites, packaging manufacturers achieving an equal product performance at full recyclability.

Sustainable Bioplastics from avocado extracts

New sustainable packaging will extend guacamole’s shelf life by 15% thanks to labels and additives extracted from the avocado itself

The project aims to develop a new biodegradable packaging system from renewable sources that also extends the shelf life of food by 15%, thanks to a label with oxygen barrier function that prevents the oxidation of food, and to the incorporation of natural antioxidants extracted from the avocado itself, which also helps reduce the use of synthetic preservatives.

Packaging from a Designer’s Lens with Ashwini Deshpande

Ep 10 – Packaging from a Designer’s Lens with Ashwini Deshpande (Part 2)

Welcome to this special two part Episode of Packaging Talks. In this episode Ashwini Deshpande, Co-Founder of Elephant Design, India’s largest integrated design consultancy speaks to Dr. Rangaprasad on a wide range of topics. In this second part Ashwini recreates the emotion & joy of being associated with some of the most successful brands in …

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