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French Plastic Packaging Manufacturers Mobilise To Extend Sorting And Recycling

24 Sep 2012
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Environment was one of the highlights of elipso&rsquos last annual general meeting. Elipso is the organisation representing plastic and flexible packaging manufacturers in france. Actually, since 2008 elipso has aligned its strategy and actions on the laws arising from the grenelle environmental consultation. First of all, prevention, particularly through weight reduction, is the primary criterion for environmental efficiency. As for recycling, it is a major orientation for elipso&rsquos policy.

Recycled Packaging Firm Reports 44 Profit Growth

24 Sep 2012
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The company reported pdf a pretax profit of £110.2m for the year to april 2012 and a 12 revenue growth to £1,969.4m. Miles roberts, group chief executive, said &ldquo201112 has been a pivotal year for ds smith. Building on the success of the previous year we further improved the operational and financial performance of the business, with substantial improvements in revenue, growth, profitability, and returns on capital.

Wanted Suppliers Offering Packaging Material Innovation And Expertise

24 Sep 2012
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What are pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare manufacturers looking for from packaging materialscomponents suppliers &ldquoin a word, innovation,&rdquo says richard adams, head of pack graphic design at glaxosmithkline in raleighdurham, nc. He elaborates, &ldquoinnovative materials and packaging solutions to meet the diversification efforts within our company. The variety of products and requirements of those products coupled with market regulatory constraints forces pharmaceutical packaging to be more creative in a rapidly evolving space.

Organic Tea Producer Selects Cellulosebased Packaging Material

24 Sep 2012
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Lebensbaum, a company based in germany, is a producer of organic tea, coffee, and herbs. It has built its success through puretasting ingredients, social responsibility, and ecological foresight. Introducing packaging materials based on renewable resources is part of the company&rsquos sustainability strategy. One such example is the company&rsquos recent decision to use compostable cellulosebased natureflex&trade nvr material from innovia films.

Speed And Flexibility

17 Sep 2012
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tucked away in the hills above verona, italy, is a familyowned commercial bakery called forno bonomi that dates back to 1850. ladyfingers, the eggbased sweet biscuits that are the foundation of that eversopopular desert known as tiramisu, are one of bonomi&rsquos specialties. and while the ingredients used to produce these delicacies today haven&rsquot changed a whole lot since the 1850s, the highspeed packaging systems recently installed by renato bonomi and his two brothers could hardly have been imagined by their 19th century ancestors.

Scent Cues Pop On Uncluttered Personal Care Packs

17 Sep 2012
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A clean and understated package design with blocks of bold, bright colors and fresh ingredient imagery help yardley london&rsquos new affordable bath and shower collection attract &ldquoa younger audience, looking for greater scent and benefit cues, as well as products with a sustainable mission.&rdquo that&rsquos according to deidre williams, director of marketing, skin care, for yardley parent company lornamead, inc. Williams explains that the new line, launched last may, was conceived to build on the growing popularity in the u.s. Of yardley&rsquos bath soaps.

Packaging Materials Move From Petroleum To Plantbased Plastics

17 Sep 2012
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A durable, lightweight plastic that came of age in the late &lsquo70s and early &lsquo80s to contain carbonate soft drinks, traditional petroleumbased pet contains monoethylene glycol, or meg, which accounts for up to 30 percent by weight of a container. The remaining 70 percent of the total mass is purified terephthalic acid, or pta. &ldquoour packaging innovation teams are working on technology to develop pta from plants,&rdquo said cocacola last year about its efforts.

Design Sustainability Through Lca

17 Sep 2012
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As a technical resource in a design firm that focuses on helping clients develop marketchanging packaging for their products, i believe that it&rsquos important to do what we can to design sustainability into a package early on in the process. This is a far more effective approach than trying to quickly add on a sustainability bandaid fix once the product or the package is halfway through design.

Top 10 Greener Package Countdown

17 Sep 2012
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From january through june 2012, greener package readers exhibited a strong interest in learning about the newest packaging innovations introduced by category leaders such as the cocacola co., at&t, procter & gamble, and unilever&mdashespecially in the area of dropin bioplastics. Also of interest were emerging topics such as extended producer responsibility and the connection between food waste and sustainable packaging, as these top10 mostread articles from the first half of 2012 show. 10.