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Personal care brand develop soap products in tin cans

18 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Personal care brand KanKan has upgraded its sustainable packaging, adding reusable pumps made of recycled plastic to its soap tin cans.

The company collaborated with design agencies Morrama and Two Times Elliot to combine the brand’s aesthetics with functional packaging.

The soap cans are made from tinplate instead of aluminium to avoid rust and features a lid that peels off completely to attach the pump.

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Pfizer To Replace Migraine Drug Nurtec ODT Packaging Over Child Safety Concerns

18 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

The commission earlier Thursday issued a recall alert for the migraine medication, urging consumers to secure the product out of sight and reach of children and to contact Pfizer for a free child-resistant pouch to store the product. Pfizer said customers don't need to return the drug.

"Patients should be rest assured that there are no quality or safety issues nor health risks when they take the medicine as prescribed for its approved use," Pfizer said.

No incidents or injuries tied to the product have been reported, the commission said.

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Grasim Industries’ Paint Division Picks Mold-Tek As Packing Material Supplier

18 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Mold-Tek Packaging, said that it has been selected as Packing Material Supplier by Grasim Industries’ Birla Paints Division, for supply of Packing Material (PAILS). The plastic packaging manufacturing company also said that a co-located facility will be set-up by the company at Mahad in Maharashtra.

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Pearlfisher designs 100% recyclable whale tail packaging for new family wellness brand

17 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Founded by Gabi Jennings in response to the disposable nature of products in the kids’ bath sector, Love Ocean aims to become a part of every family’s bath-time routine. The structure of the Love Ocean bottle, developed by Pearlfisher, aims to act as a talking point during bath time for parents to entertain their children with storytelling about the wonders of the ocean.

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Isdinceutics Essential Cleansing by ISDIN – from PCR plastics to elegant and sophisticated packaging

17 Mar 2023
Aditya Panwar

Gerresheimer's most recent post-consumer recycled packaging solution was made for their partner ISDIN, a leading Spanish company in European dermo-cosmetics.

ISDIN has selected an rPET packaging solution for its most innovative Essential Cleansing product: Oil to-milk formula with 85% natural-origin ingredients.

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Maharashtra-based startup wins Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize for biodegradable packaging solution

17 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

While efforts are on globally to cut plastic use and to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle,’ United Nations Environment Programme data shows that global production of primary plastic will touch 1,100 million tonnes by 2050. In the face of this, a Maharashtra-based start-up founded during the COVID-19 pandemic is developing an innovative solution to India's problem of plastic pollution. Their sustainable invention employs an unconventional alternative to plastic for packaging purposes: seaweed.

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IIT Roorkee develops structural color based sensors from agro-waste sugarcane bagasse to have implications for intelligent packaging

16 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Professor Pradip K Maji and his team at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, have developed a structural colour-based sensors by making structural colour from an unexpected natural resource–agro-waste sugarcane bagasse. It is a structural colour-based stimulus-responsive sensor from Nano-cellulose having implications in intelligent packaging. The colour of the laminated films comes from a ‘chiral nematic liquid crystal,' a specific molecular self-assembly that interacts selectively with specific colours of visible light.

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Nestlé pilots refillable vending machines in Indonesia

16 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

In collaboration with digital start-up Qyos by Algramo, the machines will be available at two retailers in Indonesia during a 4-6 month trial period.

Qyos was founded in 2020 and is an Indonesian start-up that aims to provide households with alternatives to single-use plastic. It is supported by machines with interface systems from Chilean environmentally friendly refill technology company, Algramo.

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Pelliconi presents a new technology for sealing baby food jars: SoPure

16 Mar 2023
Komal Sharma

SoPure® is an original solution because it is a capsule free of plasticizers such as phthalates—used to make PVC flexible—and made with Provalin®, a compound produced by Actega.

Migrational properties of Provalin® for SoPure®

Provalin® is a blend of thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) composed by more than 95% polymer and less than 5%  lubricants and stabilizers.

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