New design guidelines recommended for 100 % recyclability of PET
European Bottled Water & Soft Drinks Industries drive initiative to improve recyclability of PET bottles.
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Food and drink companies expect to cut packaging 19%
Food, beverage and consumer product makers expect that they will have eliminated four billion pounds of packaging waste nationwide between 2005 and 2020, according to two surveys conducted for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). 3GMA said the reduction represents a 19 percent cut in the reporting companies’ average U.S. packaging weight.
Ball further enhances thermochromic ink technology
The new beverage cans from Ball Packaging Europe change color like a chameleon—shifting, say, from blue to purple or yellow to green with a change in temperature.
GA Pack to build aseptic packaging material plant in Germany
Winterthur, Switzerland-based Greatview Aseptic Packaging (GA Pack), the second largest supplier of roll-fed aseptic packaging material in the world, invests 50 million Euro to build a European production facility in Halle (Saale), Germany.
Very innovative bottle made by Pepsi
PepsiCo Inc has developed a bottle made from plant-based, renewable resources that is fully recyclable, and will start using it in a test program next year.
Comprehensive and remarkable packaging event in Asia
As the most influential and largest packaging and beverage technology exhibition in China - The 18th China International Exhibition on Packaging Machinery & Materials (Sino-Pack 2011) and The 15th China International Exhibition on Brewery, Beverage and Liquid Packaging (China Drinktec 2011) kick off at China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex (Area A), Guangzhou, PR China.
Petainer launches innovative new keg
Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer has launched an environmentally-friendly, economical, alternative to metal kegs for draught beverages.
New medical package offering improved opportunities for real-time adherence control
Stora Enso Pharma DDSi Wireless - a new medical package offering improved opportunities for real-time adherence control.
EquiTherm – unprecedentedly high primary energy savings in the brewing process
One major focus of Krones’ process technology lies in the development of system components that make use of energy-saving potentials in order to minimise environmental impact and progress resource-economy.
Uncan: new packaging delivered by RPC Corby
RPC Containers Corby has launched the ‘Uncan,’ an enhanced range of retortable barrier jars for catering applications that represents an ideal mix of food-safe, long-life, lightweight jars with significant large-format cost savings.
Plastics bags in Italy still illegal
Italian plastics processor association Unionplast has failed in an attempt to have new legislation banning non-biodegradable plastics shopping bags declared illegal.
Producers save time and energy with nucleating and clarifying agents
Plastics additives producer Milliken will be at Interpack to demonstrate how its market-leading Millad clarifying agents and Hyperform HPN nucleating agents can make major contributions to converters’ process economics while ensuring improved product performance.
