Sept 21, 2021, India(Noida): UFlex, India’s largest flexible packaging company and a global leader in polymer sciences has become a member of Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance), a global non-profit organization with a mission to eliminate plastic waste in the environment.
A startup named Samsara was launched on Tuesday to commercialise a new process using enzymes to turn plastic back into reusable building blocks, with Woolworths committing to buy the first 5,000 tonnes of material for packaging.
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Commissioning of Viridor’s new polymer reprocessing facility near Bristol is underway, the company has said. The move to commissioning comes after some engineering delays to the project, partly because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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New Delhi, September 16 th , 2021: Cosmo Films Limited, a Global Leader in Films for Packaging, Labelling, Lamination and Synthetic Paper and an emerging player in Specialty Chemicals, Polymers & Pet care today announced expansion by setting up the world’s largest BOPP film production line at Aurangabad with annual rated capacity of 67,000 MT. The BOPP line will require investment of about Rs. 350 crores to be funded through internal accruals and debts and is expected to be commencing commercial production within FY 2024-25.
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Advent International backed Manjushree Technopack Limited (MTL), one of India’s largest packaging companies, on Monday announced the acquisition of Classy Kontainers, India’s largest custom-molded rigid packaging supplier, for an undisclosed sum to further consolidate its presence in the fast growing segment.
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Mondelēz International today announced that Cadbury Dairy Milk made in Bournville and sold in the UK and Ireland is to be made with packaging containing up to 30% recycled plastic. Cadbury, the UK’s biggest food brand, will roll out the packaging innovation on more than 28 million sharing bars in 2022. It is part of
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and method for manufacturing non-plastic PFAS-free food and consumer packaging.
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Uttarakhand, India, September 16, 2021: Next time you sip a juice/milkshake and toss that carton in the waste, pause for a moment! For you can do your bit to ensure that the pack doesn’t end up in a landfill. Well known NGO, Waste Warriors has recently installed a bench & a table made of recycled Tetra Pak cartons at Dehradun Zoo. The idea behind the installation of this kind of furniture is to raise awareness among consumers about the segregation of waste at source, and recycling.
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As a Master’s student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Aditya Kabra would often go on clean-up drives on nearby trekking trails to remove plastic waste. However, he realised that clean-up drives are a temporary fix: plastics kept accumulating quickly. About this time, Kabra met Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, a scientist at the CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, who was working on developing cellulose-based plastic alternatives. They decided to join forces and form Zeroplast in 2019.
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The BMC had started a citizen survey seeking responses on the civic body’s waste management to prepare a vision plan for 2030.
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Tokyo – September 17, 2021 – Toppan (TYO: 7911), a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions has developed a new barrier coated paper that provides high water vapor barrier performance and outstanding flex resistance and is suitable for a wide range of contents and packaging shapes. Sample shipments of “GL-X-P” to manufacturers in a broad spectrum of industries worldwide, including food and toiletries, will begin in September, with the launch of full-scale sales scheduled for spring 2022.
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Bangkok – 10 September 2021 Braskem the largest biopolymer producer in the world has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the SCG Chemicals, one of the largest integrated petrochemical companies in Thailand and an industry leader in Asia, to perform studies to jointly invest in a new bio-ethanol dehydration plant in Thailand to produce bio-ethylene and bio-based polyethylene.
