FMCG Packaging

The brand said the revised pack designs are poised to ‘redefine’ the consumer experience.

Boost’s lozenge logo remains but now features a ‘subtle modern twist’, with a streamlined design approach that gives each product a ‘slicker’ and ‘more refined’ look. Rio, which was acquired by Boost Drinks in 2021, recently enjoyed a similar makeover, demonstrating the brand’s desire to adapt with the times and maintain a modern visual identity.

Gerresheimer, innovative system and solution provider and global partner for the pharma, biotech, and cosmetics industry and Rezemo, an innovative start-up for bio-based materials, are announcing today the establishment of a partnership. The collaboration includes offering innovative and sustainable closures for primary packaging solutions in the fields of cosmetics, food and beverages and pharmaceutical industry.

Food regulator FSSAI has asked food business operators to immediately remove claims of 100 per cent fruit juices in advertisements as well as labels on packaged products.

According to an official statement, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a "directive mandating all Food Business Operators (FBOs) to remove any claim of '100% fruit juices' from the labels and advertisements of reconstituted fruit juices with an immediate effect.

• Nestlé announced Friday that by June it will begin using a new recyclable shrink sleeve label on its line of seven ready-to-drink Nesquik flavored milk products. The company says the cap, bottle and sleeve can all be recycled together in the U.S.
• The crystallized PET sleeves were designed with “light-blocking print technology” to preserve shelf life – an important feature for protecting these drinks, whose taste, color and vitamin levels can be susceptible to being impacted by light, the company said.

At Hindustan Unilever, we recently launched ‘Smart Fill’ machine – an in-store vending model for our Home Care products with the aim to reuse, reduce and recycle plastic. In the pilot phase, the vending machine has been installed at Reliance Smart Acme Mall in Mumbai. This industry-defining initiative offers consumers an innovative option to reuse plastic bottles by refilling our home care products like Surf excel, Comfort and Vim through this ‘Smart Fill’ machine.

In 2022, Cadbury announced it had sourced 30 per cent (on a mass balance basis) of the plastic needed to wrap its 160-gram to 185-gram Cadbury Dairy Milk family blocks produced in Australia from recycled materials.

Cadbury now aims to use 50 per cent recycled plastic for its wrappers across its chocolate blocks, bars and pieces range produced in Australia. This will be equivalent to halving its virgin plastic needs to wrap those products.

UPM Raflatac, a global supplier of innovative and sustainable self-adhesive paper and film products, has been formally recognized by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) for three types of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) label products for HDPE and PP package recycling. These include Undecorated BOPP with hotmelt adhesive, Undecorated BOPP with RW85C, and Metalized undecorated BOPP with general purpose acrylic adhesive.

Packaging specialist adapa has the knack when it comes to packing confectionery such as toffees, soft caramels or sweets in an efficient and resource-saving way. Following the certification bodies and the future expectations of the paper industry closely, adapa was able to launch a paper-based twist wrap that not only works on highspeed packaging lines but has also been certified as repulpable by the renowned CEPI standard: the PaperTwister(re).

Efficiency and certified recyclability unrivalled combined