Recycled HDPE (rHDPE) from the Spanish recycling plants Suminco in Montcada i Reixac and in Venta de Baños, which belong to the ALPLA Group, causes up to 88 per cent fewer carbon equivalent emissions than virgin material.
Huhtamaki India Limited, a leading provider of primary consumer packaging and labelling solutions in India, hosted the first India edition of its Think Circle. The forum facilitates an open discussion on the issues, challenges, and opportunities faced by the packaging value chain in achieving circularity.
Based in Sira, close to the company’s existing operation in Bangalore, the new factory will offer world-class capabilities to serve the healthcare and other key market sectors. It will enable Berry to extend its R&D innovation expertise and scale up production to support growing demand from customers throughout India and South Asia, offering best in class quality and service to both national and international businesses, as well as local and start-up companies.
Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) today launched two additions to its expanding Dual-frequency (DF) range of RFID inlays, which offer combined NFC (HF) and RAIN RFID (UHF) functionality for item-level tagging in a small, cost-effective way. The new AD Medio Web DF EM4425 and AD Web DF EM4425 V12 inlays and tags are designed for brand protection, supply chain management, and customer engagement.
Nordson India Pvt. Ltd. offers a patent pending solution enabling manufacturers to do away with single-use plastics in shrink wrapped collating applications.
As you’ve no doubt noticed, there’s a worryingly large amount of plastic pollution, and scientists are working hard to find ways to use plastic without causing so much long-term damage to the environment around us.
In the Netherlands, Lipton Ice Tea, a leading global ice tea brand, has made the decision to switch to SIG aseptic carton packs with SIGNATURE FULL BARRIER packaging material, where all the polymers used are linked to certified forest-based renewable materials via a mass-balance system. Each year, around 39 million packs are sold and having a more sustainable packaging, the positive environmental impact this switch implicates is big.
VOID Technologies, a materials science company, has officially opened its first US-based, plastic reduction research labs and compound manufacturing facility to help packaging manufacturers and brand owners transition to more sustainable plastics and packaging.
CINCINNATI, OH. (April 27, 2021) – Responding to the increased market demand for post-consumer recycled (PCR) packaging solutions, flexible packaging leader, ProAmpac, announced the launch of its unique ProActive PCR® Retort pouches. Both EU and FDA compliant for food contact in retort applications, ProActive PCR Retort pouches are designed for pet and human food packaging.
Unique recycling technology helps the industry close the loop on PVDC-coated PET films
The Huhtamaki Foundation inaugurated its first recycling plant in Khopoli, Maharashtra today to help drive circularity for packaging. The site – which is spread across 2,000 square meters – will recycle about 1,600 kilograms of post-consumer used flexible plastic waste per day from early May as the plant becomes fully operational. The Central Pollution Board of India (2012) estimates that India generates close to 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste a day and a little over 10,000 tonnes a day of plastic waste remains uncollected.
In line with our BK for Good commitments, we’re proud to announce we are partnering with Loop to introduce reusable packaging in restaurant across selected meal and cold drink menu items.
