February 2024

The new papers Metalvac Seal y Metalvac Barrier WV They are the result of innovative work based on Lecta's experience in direct high vacuum metallization, the application of coatings and the search for the appropriate components to achieve the desired functionalities. Both products have characteristics suitable for specific flexible packaging applications and, in both cases, are recyclable and therefore more sustainable.

After the official ribbon cutting, customers and senior Berry personnel were honoured in a traditional Pooja ceremony followed by the traditional lighting of a lamp. Guests then had the opportunity to tour the new building, which will create around 500 local jobs in the coming years and improve regional and global access to a wide range of advanced healthcare solutions.

Berry Global chairman and CEO Tom Salmon said: “The opening of this impressive facility marks another major milestone in Berry’s worldwide healthcare operations.

• The Composting Consortium, managed by Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy, released a policy brief on Tuesday asserting that extended producer responsibility programs are strengthened by needs assessments that take into account compostable packaging and composting infrastructure.
• The brief includes three calls to action for regulators, policymakers and producer responsibility

This is currently being used in a pilot scheme by a sustainable activewear brand, with plans for a wider roll-out later in the year.

The reusable packaging pouch has the potential to be used over 20 times with consumers encouraged to return the packaging to the retailer after every use. 

It is made from recycled polyethylene (rPET) and is currently available to manufacturers and retailers in three sizes, depending on the size and quantity of items dispatched.

Recycling technology company Polytag and sustainable waste management company Biffa have partnered as part of plastics, resource, efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP’s 26-week long “Bottle to Bottle” project, in conjunction with label printer Interket UK and Arla Foods and Müller Milk & Ingredients.

The project will see Co-op’s water bottles and Aldi and Ocado’s milk marked with UV 2D tags, printed by Interket UK, with a Polytag UV tag reader retrofitted onto the plastic conveyor at Biffa’s Teesside MRF in the northeast of England.

LyondellBasell PB-1 resins are commonly used in consumer packaging applications for easy-open packaging and film modification for seal initiation temperature providing:

• Broad seal-peel temperature range

• Consistent and reproducible peel performance

• Adjustable peel force to end-use requirements

• Similar initiation and propagation peel force 

• "Whitening" with "Smooth & Clean" peel surface

• Good seal integrity 

• Easy processability

DuPont today announced that it is launching a new global awards program called the Tyvek® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Awards. This annual awards program is designed to recognize leaders across the healthcare industry who are embracing and driving sustainability throughout the packaging lifecycle.

The eco-packaging has been tested by the company’s packaging experts to make sure it protects the saddle-shaped chips and keeps them fresh for 15 months as the previously used can.

The new packaging landed exclusively in Tesco stores and online last week before being rolled out to other supermarkets later this year. The tubes are also available in One Stop stores, part of the Tesco Group. Around 48 million recyclable Pringles tubes will be sold in Tesco in the first year alone.