All Rigid Packaging articles – Page 8
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ArticleHow to deal with potential allergens contained in packaging?
In this comment piece, Miriam Jiménez Serrallé, a member of of AIMPLAS’s Food Contact & Packaging Laboratory, explores the challenges of potential allergens in packaging made from plant- and animal based polymers.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Frugal Bottle
As the countdown is running to the big unveil of the Sustainability Awards 2021, winners, we find out more about Frugalpac’s Frugal Bottle, which is made from 94% recycled paperboard, and the machine that puts it together.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Ecoshell
Only one week to go until the winners of the Sustainability Awards 2021 are unveiled at Fachpack! In our series of finalist interviews, today we find out about ACMA’s Ecoshell.
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ArticleAEROBAL announces winners of the World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2021
The International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, AEROBAL, has announced the winners of its competition for state-of-the-art aluminium aerosol cans.
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ArticleFinalist interview: CITRUSPACK biobased packaging
Next under the spotlight for our Sustainability Awards finalist interview is the CITRUSPACK project, a consortium which maximizes the use of citrus juice production waste side-stream by-products.
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ArticleFinalist interview: PulPac’s Dry Molded Fiber
In the latest of our Sustainability Awards finalist interviews, PulPac talks us through their patented and market ready manufacturing technology for single-use packaging based on fibre moulding.
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ArticleAntimicrobial protection leads the way for cleaner and more sustainable packaging
In this short piece, Microban International highlights the importance of promoting wider use of reusable packaging models.
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ArticleFinalist Interview: Mibelle Group’s plastic made from CO2
Next up in our series of Sustainability Awards finalist interviews is Mibelle Group with its PET bottles that are made from 30% CO2 - a finalist in the Pre-Commercialized Innovation category.
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PodcastPodcast: An exploration of alternative wine packaging formats
Classic glass bottles have been the go-to packaging for wine for centuries. But in recent years, alternative formats such as bag-in-box, cans and flat plastic bottles have emerged.
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ArticleAqua Pura launches recyclable bottle with new shape and integrated cap
Aqua Pura is rolling out new recyclable bottles made from recycled material with a 'flip to open, snap to close" integrated cap.
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ArticleA closer look at ICP's corrugated cardboard box made from tomato stems
The Slovenian Pulp and Paper Institute (ICP) recently presented a corrugated cardboard pack made partly from tomato stems. The tomato stems are from locally sourced agricultural waste.
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ArticleNew stretch blow molding machine unveiled by PET Technologies
PET Technologies recently brought to the market a new flexible PET stretch blow molding machine – APF-Max.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Gorilla Spirits
For the next in our series of interviews with the Sustainability Awards 2021 finalists, we find out about Gorilla Spirits, a UK-based company manufacturing its bottles entirely from post-consumer recycled glass.
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PodcastPodcast: Beverage cartons and sustainability
Elisabeth Skoda speaks to Annick Carpentier, Director General at ACE, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment, and Michael Brandl, Director General at EXTR:ACT, and discusses beverage carton recycling challenges and recent developments.
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ArticleIK interview: The insider perspective on plastic packaging
Elisabeth Skoda discusses recycling and recyclate goals and challenges, bioplastics, consumer behaviour and much more with Dr Isabell Schmidt, the managing director at IK, the German plastic packaging industry association.
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ArticleHuhtamaki debuts plastic-free cartons for cooked coloured eggs
Huhtamaki is launching Futuro, a plastic-free carton for cooked coloured eggs, across markets in Europe.
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ArticleLecta launches polyethylene free EraCup Natural
Lecta has presented EraCup Natural, a paper-based solution for single-use cups that the company says is recyclable, biodegradeble and polyethylene-free.
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ArticlePackaging Trend Focus: A look at the 2021 refill landscape
In the second of a series of articles looking at ThePackHub’s Global Packaging Trends Compendium, Paul Jenkins, Managing Director, ThePackHub, takes a look at the subject of refills.
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ArticleWhy choose polystyrene?
It’s a question we’ve explored several times over the past few months – and one that Styrenics Circular Solutions aims to answer in an upcoming webinar to take place this Wednesday, 30th June.
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ArticleSmurfit Kappa interview: Back to basics – and grasping the future
Around the anniversary of the first European lockdowns Tim Sykes catches up with Arco Berkenbosch (VP Innovation & Development, Smurfit Kappa) to review how the market has changed since then.