Sharon Xiao from UPM Raflatac will be presenting at this year’s Sustainability in Packaging Asia 2020 in September, discussing the material challenges and innovations in sustainable packaging industry.We spoke to her about her presentation and found out why she thinks it’s important to attend.
One of the challenges of incorporating recycled content into the product design is preserving the end product’s mechanical performance properties. It is imperative to educate stakeholders of effective solutions to use and upcycle waste plastic streams. Kraton’s styrenic block copolymers show excellent recyclability, enabling recyclable end product design, increase of post-consumer resin (PCR) content and repeated reuse of recycled plastics across a wide range of applications.
End of Life, especially for plastic packaging remains a high priority for the packaging industry to address.
POLIFILM EXTRUSION and HERMA Self-adhesive Materials are pioneering the genuine recycling of the matrix waste that arises during the production of PE film labels.
Thanks to a special process, adhesives and printing inks no longer pose a problem.
The recycled material is initially being used in the manufacture of construction films, but additional film applications are expected to be added soon.
Ahead of the upcoming Sustainability in Packaging Asia conference, we caught up with Ashwin Subramaniam, CEO of GA Circular. He gave us a sneak peek of what we can expect from his presentation on day two, taking place during our ‘Circular economy and recycling consideration in packaging’ session.
The bio-based material should be originating from renewable resources completely and should have enough strength to get processed into packaging products. Various parameters like melt strength, tensile strength, elongation, processability, flexibility, thermal stability, biodegradability and composability decide the market acceptability and make any bio-based material to be commercially viable.
Material choices define the sustainability of our packaging products
OEE is one of the most important metrics to track in a factory. It englobes performance, availability and quality and by evaluating these three factors, it provides information about which sectors of your operation need investment and improvements.
“Reduce, reuse, recycle”: for the KHS Group these three pillars of sustainability are a composite part of its corporate philosophy. The manufacturer of filling and packaging technology consistently focuses on resource-saving, recycling-friendly systems and solutions. Together with Austrian packaging expert ALPLA KHS has now developed a returnable PET container that at 55 grams is extremely light. The 1.0-liter bottle’s high recyclate content of 35% also has a very positive effect on its overall ecobalance.
Siegwerk, one of the leading suppliers of printing inks for packaging
applications and labels, has launched their new Circular Economy website. The company strongly
believes in the needs of a Circular Economy (CE) and is committed to contribute to creating a circular packaging industry.
The new website provides information about the company’s CE approach.
What is the future of PET packaging. Is the use of this material even sustainable in the future – and if so, how? We present below a insightful article on this topic by Sidel
One of the effects of the coronarvirus pandemic is that consumer behaviour in terms of buying and consuming goods has changed in line with restricted
