September 2012

International sustainable resins supplier, cardia bioplastics limited, and leading rigid plastic packaging company, alto packaging, have announced a strategic partnership to produce high performance packaging solutions with environmental benefits. Alto food packaging is renowned for delivering exceptional innovation in rigid packaging solutions for fresh food. A key part of the company&39s innovation is based on principles of sustainability.

Biobased label adhesive danimer 92721 meets the stringent demands of the pet container and packaging recycling streams while offering the additional benefit of a renewable content higher than 50 percent. This biobased formulation is competitively priced with block copolymers pricing is not linked to crude oil derivatives. In addition, rheology of danimer 92721 enables the adhesive to operate in existing adhesive systems at temperatures less than 325 degrees f.

 Systech illinois, manufacturers and suppliers of gas analysis instruments for the global food and packaging industry, will be exhibiting at this year&39s ppma exhibition at the birmingham nec, the uk&39s leading processing and packaging machinery trade show.free headspace testing service with gaspace advancein addition to displaying our headspace analysis range, we will be offering a free headspace testing service throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Nonrecycled waste can be energy source the american chemistry council acc and university of texas at austin have released a study reaffirming the value of everyday waste as a clean, abundant, affordable source of domestic energy. The study, completed by michael webber, ph.d, and his team of university researchers, demonstrated that fuel engineered from nonrecycled plastics and other materials could successfully power a cement kiln located in texas.

To encourage more environmentally responsible living, heinz ketchup has launched the "join the growing movement" campaign on its restaurant bottles featuring plantbottle technology, inviting consumers to promise to be more environmentally responsible through a mobile application

R&dleverage&39s creativity in mold manufacturing for pet tooling, ibm tooling and injection molds, as well as unit tool development, testing and validation, is making it possible for iowa state university isu scientists to develop sustainable horticulture containers ecofriendly flower pots in a massive, usdafunded, multiinstitutional research program targeting the 7.12 billion container specialty crop industry.

The foodservice packaging institute fpi recently announced the founding of the "plastics recovery group" prg, a collaboration of businesses and organizations dedicated to creating solutions to expand the recovery and processing of used plastic foodservice packaging. Today, a limited recovery infrastructure and end use markets result in valuable resources ending up in landfills.