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.
LyondellBasell today announced that it is building a new small-scale pilot facility at its Ferrara, Italy site moving another step closer to converting post-consumer plastic waste into new plastics on a commercial scale.
China has been one of the world’s fastest growing economies for over three decades. Today, it is the world’s second largest economy, the fastest growing consumer market, and an e-commerce wonderland second to none.
Single-use plastic, or disposable material that can be used only once before it is either thrown away or recycled, is used by almost all consumer-facing industries including food processing and food delivery, retailers for packaging and selling finished goods, pharmaceuticals and agriculture.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will review its packaging regulations to accommodate more environment-friendly materials. This will help the companies to look for materials which can be substitute to single-use plastic, according to FSSAI.
For all those companies looking for aseptic packaging will witness universally unseen breakthrough technology called ‘Asepto Eye’— that offers aesthetically mesmerizing superior outlook, aiming to revolutionize safe and secure liquid packaging.
Total Corbion PLA’s peer reviewed Life Cycle Impact Assessment of PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) produced from Sugarcane in Thailand has been published in the “Journal of Polymers and the Environment” and confirms PLA’s low carbon footprint.
As the world’s relationship with plastic is being radically redefined, academics at the University of Surrey investigate bold new food packaging pledges made by some of the world’s most prominent brands – and question whether these pledges will translate into measurable actions.
The findings of an independent laboratory testing of ‘EcoLam High Plus’ technology show it is consistent with recycling. It improves the recyclability of the current, widely available technologies for functional barriers used in PE films.
The only way to obtain truly virgin-quality recycled material, if we are to recycle more of our packaging waste and develop new markets for recovered resources, is through non-mechanical or chemical recycling.
Avery Dennison, which makes apparel branding labels and tags, RFID inlays and pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, among other things, has already activated these smart labels in some markets.
