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Global Standards
Pharmaceutical

Global Standards and Compliance on ISO/IEC Barcode Verification for Pharma as per Serialisation

To meet the regulated health care guidelines it is important for the pharma manufacturers and their packaging suppliers are aware of global standards and have the ability to verify their packaging and labelling as per globally specified standards. The methods for accurately assessing and analysing design, encodation and print quality of the barode symbols is vital to ensure smooth flow of the product along the supply chain. This ofcourse covers the family of GS1 symbologies both linear as well as 2D. The importance of a stand alone judge performing the task of barcode verification helps to identify, analyse and correct errors, in addition to keep a record of quality and compliance which is vital within the industry.

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Plastic Waste Recycling
Sustainability

What is Plastic Waste Recycling?

In order to protect resources and our environment, high-quality recycling technologies for plastic waste are required, which allow the reuse of polymers without breaking up the polymer chains.

CreaCycle GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) in Freising, Germany combined their competencies in a cooperation aimed at “Plastic/Raw-Material Recycling with a Solvent-based Purification Technology” (selective extraction) and developed the CreaSolv® Process that is based on physical changes and leaves the polymer composition intact.
Proprietary CreaSolv® Formulations from CreaCycle with the lowest risk potential possible for user and environment dissolve selectively a target polymer. This reduces besides the hazard also the cost for the equipment. After the separation of imbedded impurities or undesired polymers the recycled polymer can be reused in its original application.

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Circular Economy
Sustainability

EARTH 2020: WHAT NEXT………?

The paper deliberates two concepts; the first is in using data to understand our world, which, by the way, is becoming increasingly important as a science from which we can derive trends to create models and forecasts. The second is our human footprint, an increasingly valid means to justify implementing circular systems into our economy and everyday lives.

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Package Testing
E-Commerce

Recent Advances in Testing of Transport-worthiness of Filled packages

The main objective of packaging is to protect the product. Simple. It is important to remember because sometimes it is forgotten and our spectacular new package design doesn´t work, the product is damaged when it is transported, and the spectacular becomes useless.

To avoid that, since decades, testing the unit loads has been an important part in the good packaging design process. The big player in this field is the association ISTA (International Safe Transit Association), that gathers the main experts in the transport packaging field and is continuously creating and updating different test protocols for this topic. This group of experts handled to create those protocols which include tests to measure the resistance of our package to the standard forces the package can find along the way such as drops, impacts, vibrations, compression.

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PET Bottle

Accelerating the Circular Economy for Post-Consumer PET Bottles in Southeast Asia

THIS REPORT FINDS THAT:
The collected-for-recycling rate for PET bottles in the six countries is on average 54% at the city level (based on nine representative cities) and is estimated to be 26% at the national level.
Across the six countries, a total of 660,000 tonnes of PET bottles was landfilled or leaked into the environment in 2018. This represents a loss of material value of US$199 million.
The informal sector is the backbone of collection for PET bottles, contributing to 97% of all PET that is collected-for-recycling in the nine cities studied – and thus any solutions for Southeast Asia must include the informal sector.
The recommended systemic solution to drive circularity is the implementation of an industry-led PRO focused on boosting the value chain by implementing a price incentive that also benefits the informal sector, supporting policies, the use of recycled content in packaging, and investments into increasing domestic recycling capacity.
Similar models have seen success in comparable developing markets (South Africa and Mexico) which, through voluntary industry efforts, have increased PET collection and recycling rates to over 55% in each country. South Africa now has a 68% recycling rate for PET bottles, with 100% of the material recycled within South Africa.

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