Sustainability has become the mantra of the packaging world. No matter which way you look, companies are developing new products and processes that will reduce packaging's impact on the environment. Nowhere is this movement more critical than in the flexible packaging space.
Packaging solutions with certified recyclability help food and drink producers satisfy relevant legal requirements. SÜDPACK Verpackungen GmbH & Co. KG has now received a certificate of recyclability from the Institute cyclos-HTP for its packaging film concept.
In recent years, the idea of a circular economy has come to the forefront of this movement. Based on the principles of reduction, reuse and recycling, it is theorized that a circular economy can be restorative and regenerative by design.
Comar, a specialty packaging, device, and component supplier serving the medical, pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare, personal and home care, food and beverage, and other niche market segments is building a custom facility in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
GoGo squeeZ, a leading brand in healthy portable fruit pouches for kids, announced that it will unveil 100 percent recyclable packaging in the market by 2022. GoGo squeeZ will be among the earliest brands to address the implications of its pouch packaging and offer sustainable options to customers.
Toppan Printing, based in Tokyo, is launching sales of a new food packaging system called Green Flat, which addresses the need to reduce plastic packaging and can be used as an alternative to conventional skin packs.
TC Transcontinental is creating a Recycling Group within TC Transcontinental Packaging. This group will purchase equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from sorting facilities and other sources into recycled plastic granules.
Anellotech has announced that a laboratory demonstration of its Plas-TCat technology – which transforms mixed flexible packaging plastic waste directly into chemicals used to make virgin PET for beverage bottles.
UPM Specialty Papers partners with Cycle4green to boost label industry circular economy by collecting and recycling release liner base papers. Cycle4green works with labelstock producers and converters, collecting used material to remove silicon.
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