In this edition of the Spotlight, we hear from monta about its self-adhesive packaging tape, made from 90% post-consumer PET recyclate packagingeurope.com/the-new-monta-…

Nampak Liquid Cartons has partnered with Fibre Circle and Infinite Industries to provide the SPCA Roodepoort Krugersdorp in South Africa with roof sheets made from recycled cartons, aiming to provide a safer and more comfortable shelter for the animals packagingeurope.com/news/nampak-fi…

.Sealed Air Corporation has launched a new range of high-barrier, printable laminates across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, designed to help food processors use less plastic in packaging, improve recyclability and reduce total packaging costs packagingeurope.com/news/see-seeks…

With the release of the TOMRA R2 reverse vending machine, TOMRA Collection plans to offer multi-feed returns at smaller retail venues and allow consumers to convert their deposit refunds into digital vouchers or donate them to charity packagingeurope.com/news/digital-v…

Abriso Jiffy and BridgeInsight have revealed Jiffy FlexiBag, a paper-based e-commerce solution that flexes to the size of the product being shipped, in an effort to eliminate unnecessary packaging and reduce waste packagingeurope.com/news/flexible-…

For our Sustainability Awards Finalist Interviews series we spoke to AeroFlexx about its flexible package designed to act like a rigid bottle and incorporating up to 50% recycled content, nominated in the Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category packagingeurope.com/features/susta…

.Costa Coffee has collaborated with coffee pod recycling service Podback for a new trial, to offer coffee pod recycling in 142 Costa Coffee stores across the UK packagingeurope.com/news/costa-cof…

.DHL Group on taking an end-to-end approach to packaging packagingeurope.com/comment/dhl-on…

.RECOUP has revealed the shortlisted entries for the 2024 RECOUP Awards, which focuses on plastics resource efficiency and recycling and organisations aiming for a more circular plastics value chain packagingeurope.com/news/shortlist…

.Fanta and Warner Bros. are celebrating the release of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in cinemas with a lineup of limited-edition Fanta cans, including an exclusive Beetlejuice flavour, and the opportunity to win tickets by scanning a QR code packagingeurope.com/news/beetlejui…

The difference between industry and consumer perceptions of ‘sustainability’ packagingeurope.com/features/the-d…

Aiming to transition into sustainable packaging materials by 2025, LEGO is introducing paper packets to its sets; offering consumers fibre-based containers and bags when shopping in-store; and delivering online orders in ‘100% paper’ packages packagingeurope.com/news/the-lego-…

Ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards, we spoke to finalist COPAR about its wheat straw packaging, nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Renewables category and aiming to offer a compostable and recyclable alternative to traditional plastics packagingeurope.com/features/susta…

.Quadpack Group has worked with French suncare brand Hei Poa on its first facial stick product, a mono-material pack with 50% post-consumer recycled content (PCR) designed for easy application packagingeurope.com/news/quadpack-…

Asahi Kasei Engineering (AEC) has launched a cloud-based computer aided engineering (CAE) solution platform, with apps to predict the crash and impact behaviour of polymers packagingeurope.com/news/asahi-kas…

.Linx Printing has developed two new inks to print legible, durable codes onto the ‘latest generation’ of recycled and recyclable plastic films and increase traceability across customers’ supply chains packagingeurope.com/news/linx-prin…

In this edition of the Spotlight, Leipa outlines the ‘paperisation’ shift from plastic packaging to paper-based alternatives, and the benefits and challenges of paper composites packagingeurope.com/paperisation-a…

.Power Adhesives has announced the launch of its biodegradable hot melt adhesive, said to be a ‘world first’ and designed for use by carton, corrugated packaging, point of sale (POS) converters and contract packers packagingeurope.com/news/power-adh…

Saverio Mayer, CEO of Smurfit Westrock Europe MEA and APAC (Smurfit Kappa), walks us through his vision of the new company’s industrial, financial, and efficiency benefits, and how this all reflects on its pursuit of sustainable packaging packagingeurope.com/an-exclusive-i…

TOPPAN Holdings revealed it has received net zero target validation from Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for the TOPPAN Group’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for the entire value chain, including Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions packagingeurope.com/news/toppan-gr…