January 2023

The new packaging design is eco-friendly and moves away from plastic to paper. The designs are festive and the boxes are durable and make the everyday use of the products a breeze. The boxes are intelligently designed in a way that one can easily see and understand the product inside despite the box being made of cardboard. The packaging is also more user-friendly and easy to use, making it even more convenient for customers to incorporate traditional rituals into their busy lives.

Researchers from IIT Roorkee and Afflatus Gravure Private Limited, Noida, created an environment-friendly technology for flexible printing. In accordance with a licencing agreement signed in front of IIT Roorkee Director Professor KK Pant, other representatives of the company, and the research team, the institute has transferred the two innovations to a reputable packaging company.

Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada will be introducing wooden and fibre cutlery for guests, eliminating an estimated use of 90 million single-use plastics a year, starting in early 2023. The wooden cutlery and fibre spoon are both compostable. In another move to reduce the use of single-use plastics, plastic lids on Loaded Bowls are also being replaced with fibre lids.

Natura PCR, a leading film recycler and postconsumer resin (PCR) producer, says it has received a letter of nonobjection (LNO) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that enables the company’s 100-percent-recycled linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) PCR to be used in direct food-contact packaging applications, including packaging for foods stored at room temperature and for refrigerated and frozen foods.

Quadpack has grown its Woodacity range with the launch of the Idol Woodacity Solo Twist Compact.

A refillable compact, the new addition is based on Quadpack’s Solo Twist closure system, which allows for an inclusive opening/closing gesture for both right and left-handed consumers.

The cap can be opened with a quarter turn in either direction.

The casing is made entirely of wood from European, sustainably-managed forests, and it comes with an embedded mirror in the cap.

Nestlé has announced a “global first” for its iconic KitKat is being trialled in Australia.

The popular 45g four-finger bars will be wrapped in “innovative new paper packaging” sold exclusively at Coles supermarkets in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Bars wrapped in the new paper packaging will be sold for a “limited time” from January as the brand explores different avenues to meet Nestlé’s goal of reducing its use of virgin plastics by a third by 2025.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul renewed her support for a law establishing extended producer responsibility for packaging in the annual State of the State report released Tuesday.

Hochul announced she will introduce the Waste Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, “which transfers the onus of recycling to the producer — not the taxpayers.”

Endless sustainable materials and pack styles continue to appease the market and challenge automation simultaneously. Brillopak, a leading UK end-of-line retail case loading specialist, will debut the multi-material handling capabilities of its new high-speed Tray & Punnet PAKer. The machine automatically packs trays and punnets into retail cases neatly and is ready for any material trend – now and in the future.