Steel for packaging has a real role to play in helping deliver a greener future for Europe.
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UPM Raflatac is partnering with Vellamo, Finland's award-winning natural mineral water for a truly innovative sustainable label. Vellamo's bottles feature UPM Raflatac Forest Film PPTM, the world's first and only wood-based polypropylene plastic label material. This transparent label material is constructed from UPM BioVerno naphtha, a 100 percent wood-based solution made from tall oil, a residue of pulp production, originating from sustainably managed forests.
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UPM Raflatac, a global leading manufacturer of pressure sensitive labels, is pleased to announce it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact. This collaborative, soltuions-driven initiative is rooted in four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches, setting a national strategy, and creating scalable solutions to create a path forward toward a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The first North AMerican Pact of its kind, the U.S. Pact is a collaboration led by The Recycling Partnership, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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When packages come and go, label choice matters. A truly closed loop solution is here with new and improved UPM Raflatac RW85C wash-off label materials for PET containers, now available in the Americas. Market. Part of the UPM Raflatac SmartCircle tm sustainable product range, products with RW85C adhesive offer best in class wash-off technology.
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-Eliminates VOC in printing on flexible packaging for food, etc. and realizes about 80% in energy saving-
Toray Industries, Inc. announced today (March 14 2019) that it has succeeded in the development of a waterless offset printing press for the first time in the world, jointly with Miyakoshi printing Machinery Co., Ltd. and others in a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) project, to be used in printing on flexible packaging materials for familiar products such as lifestyle goods and food products.
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High-quality and durable packaging plays a key role in preventing food waste. Good packaging protects the product and its taste throughout the production chain and ensures that the product remains fresh. Important perspectives in decreasing food waste include the size of the packaging and how easy it is to use and empty. Paulig Group invests strongly in packaging development and also takes into account the environmental effects of packaging. Did you know that Paulig was the first in the world to introduce renewable raw materials to vacuum coffee packages?
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Ease, affordability, and convenience: these concepts that have quickly come to the forefront of the way that we operate and prioritize. Yet these priorities have come at odds with our growing environmental crisis, where individuals are starting to get curious about what they can do to lighten their environmental impact.
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Wine may soon be distributed in flat plastic bottles, in a move that could reduce carbon emissions and costs in the industry’s supply chain.
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Defra has launched a series of consultations intended to ‘overhaul’ the UK’s waste system.
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Nestlé brand Häagen-Dazs has become the official ice cream partner for the pilot Loop project in New York launching sometime over the next few months.
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At this year’s Global Packaged Summit, Tetra Pak launched the 2018 Tetra Pak Index, an annual report that investigates consumer trends and growth opportunities in the Food and Drink industry. Sonia Sharma explores the rise of e-Groceries and the role packaging plays.
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Where a few years ago everyone was still busy with the ecological footprint of a product, the focus is currently shifting from this carbon food print to 'waste' or waste.
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At Packaged, the 7th Global Summit in Amsterdam, Dr. Chris Simms, a Reader in Innovation Management and New Product Development at Portsmouth University, gave a talk on the opportunities presented by packaging integral products. Elisabeth Skoda took the opportunity to speak to him to find out more.
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Products must inspire consumers and it is essential to know the consumer well. "By offering a positive product experience, there is an affinity between the consumer and the product"
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"Customer experience and sustainability are topics that are receiving more and more attention," says Julien Barreau, Creative Buyer at Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics .
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"Developing packaging is a team effort. You need all disciplines and you have to look at all the different aspects of packaging to get a strong design."
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The public commotion about plastic waste and the high recycling requirements imposed by the EU require brand owners such as Coca-Cola and Danone to take swift action.
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At the Packaged summit in Amsterdam, Elisabeth Skoda spoke with Alexandre de Souza Carvalho, Director Marketing Services at Tetra Pak, about the growth in the online grocery market, and how packaging innovations can help consumers to have a better shopping experience.
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Recycling of steel packaging in Europe has hit a new all-time high of 84%, according to figures issued by APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging. It is an increase of 1,5% and is the ninth consecutive year in which the overall recycling rate has risen.
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