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Dove’s Refillable Deodorant Is Made To Last a Lifetime
The beautifully designed stainless steel case is a pleasure to hold—and is designed to withstand the pressure of a car driving over it.
January 11, 2021
FMCG
White Papers
Performance and Potential Applications for G-FP Paper Additive
G-FP is a cross linking polymer dosed in the process of paper making. The fundamental performance objective of G-FP is to cross link multiple small fibres into a longer fibre, thus mimic the virgin fibre performance from the domestic sourced short fibre based OCCs.
December 13, 2020
Insights
Top 5 Packaging Trends In 2020
Throughout the last years we have seen the growth of global trade, urbanization and population growth, with an increased pressure on exports and imports as well as packaging for the safety of goods. A faster pace of life was translated into consumption “on the go” which, naturally, increased the need for food service packaging.
December 12, 2020
News
Albéa lands partnership with P&G to launch recyclable toothpaste tubes
This partnership between Albéa Group and P&G is in line with the companies’ ambition of achieving 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025
December 12, 2020
News
Crest, Oral-B and Blend-a-med Announce the Launch of Their First Ever Recyclable HDPE Toothpaste Tubes in North America and Europe
Procter & Gamble (P&G) will start the switch to the recyclable HDPE tubes for Crest, Oral-B and Blend-a-med in January 2021 and will continue until full conversion, by 2025 for US and Europe.
The launch of its first HDPE tubes will enable millions of households to recycle their toothpaste packaging in existing recycling streams.
December 2, 2020
News
UFI code reading – made easy with the new OCR module
INTRAVIS now offers a solution for all producers who have to display UFI codes on their packaging from 2021 onwards: the new OCR module
November 27, 2020
News
New standard adhesive materials for clear-on-clear applications
Two ultra-clear transparent OPP films for practically invisible labels. The recently developed adhesive 62C is extremely transparent and offers the very best processing and adhesive properties. “These two new adhesive materials extend our standard range in a market segment in which our customers can harness additional potential.”
November 18, 2020
Insights
How flexible packaging saved human life during Covid-19 in India
This paper explains how flexible packaging helps to feed the people during the lockdown in India. Flexible packaging, typically known as multilayer packaging due to use of different layers of polymeric films and laminate them to perform as a single layer. Due to use of different family polymers, it turns out to be difficult to reuse and recycle. Increased consumption and control the waste of used pouches is a major challenge in India. So, many organizations and NGOs are demanding to ban the use of plastic in multilayer packaging. But, as explained in the perspective article, how multilayer packaging is contributing to save the society as well migrants and human life during lockdown in India and feed the migrants during Covid-19 situation but leaving challenge for collection and recycling.
November 18, 2020
Insights
Innovate Your Packaging With Digital Printing
Packaging360 & HP came together to organize a webinar on “Innovate your Packaging with Digital Printing” on 6th November, 2020. The webinar was set to
November 11, 2020
News
WITH TETHERTUBE, ALPLA IS A STEP AHEAD
Simple, practical and good for the environment. That describes ALPLA’s latest innovation. The lightweight mono-material tube is completely recyclable, can be used as a refill container, amongst other things, and is easy for the consumer to use. The real highlight, however, is the closure.
November 3, 2020
News
Relief for FMCG after Centre relaxes packaging norms, lets companies use existing inventory
Manufacturers will have to stamp or paste stickers declaring details of the correct month and year of manufacturing and packing, according to an order issued by the Consumer Affairs Ministry. Without this relaxation, packaging material would have been wasted because they are not allowed to put stickers to change the details.
November 3, 2020
News
HERMA: Another award for the joint sustainability project
• The PE label made entirely from post-consumer recycled material (PCR) and with innovative wash-off adhesive wins the Austrian “Green Packaging Star”.
• Following on from the German Packaging Award, this is another award for the joint project involving Polifilm Extrusion, schaefer-etiketten and HERMA Self-adhesive Materials.
• “The project shows how recycling processes can be optimised at relatively low cost, especially with plastic packaging.”
October 2, 2020