The initiative helped bring over 50,000 PET bottles into the formal recycling ecosystem.
Every bottle recycled back into the PET ecosystem as a circular alternative to virgin PET helps conserve fossil fuel resources, lower carbon emissions, reduce import reliance and make the packaging supply chain green and sustainable.
Emerging businesses have until 16 November to enter Pitch the Co-Packers 2027, with the chance to pitch to four industry experts and secure valuable support to accelerate their growth.
Eligible businesses still have time to apply for Pitch the Co-Packers 2027, where they can present their growth plans to four industry-leading ‘dragons’ and compete for outsourcing funding and other prizes.
Global packaging manufacturer Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) has expanded its kp Infinity® foodservice portfolio with the launch of kp Infinity® Tavola™, a recyclable pizza packaging solution designed to maintain food temperature while improving product protection and presentation.
Launching in the UK and selected European markets from September 2026, the packaging has been developed for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), pizzerias and food delivery businesses looking to maintain pizza quality during transportation.
Nivea, Green Worms, Vardhaman Polypacks and ExxonMobil Signature Polymers developed a high-performance shrink film with 22% post-consumer recycled content for skincare packaging.
A four-company collaboration has delivered a collation shrink film containing 22% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content for Nivea skincare packaging in India, proving that sustainability goals and mechanical performance do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Demonstrated through a new signature Yangi product, the coffee lid, the new Cellera® capability enables secure, consistent lid-to-container fit and opens new opportunities for fiber-based packaging across foodservice, dry-food, and ambient applications.
Yangi is introducing a new undercut feature for its Cellera industrial dry-forming platform, enabling complex functional geometries in dry-molded fiber packaging. The innovation will be showcased at the Sustainable Packaging Summit, November 10–12 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
UFlex has received an Indian patent for its reclosable packaging solution with a
Every year, the global citrus industry discards millions of tonnes of orange peels, a fragrant mountain of waste rich in pectin, essential oils and polyphenols. Most of this material ends up in landfills or low-value animal feed, even though its chemistry could serve far more ambitious purposes. A new study published in Waste and Biomass Valorization shows how this overlooked byproduct can be converted into a sophisticated biodegradable packaging film that not only protects food from oxygen and moisture but also releases antioxidant compounds over time.
Global packaging manufacturer Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) will showcase its specialist meat packaging portfolio at SÜFFA 2026, taking place in Stuttgart, Germany, from 7–9 November 2026. At Stand 7B26, the company will present packaging solutions developed for fresh and processed meat applications, covering rigid trays, films and flexible packaging formats.
The portfolio will demonstrate how packaging can combine product protection, sealing performance and visual presentation with improved material efficiency and recyclability.
For decades, many plastics processing plants have followed a simple maintenance philosophy: run the machine until something breaks, then fix it. A new generation of connected equipment, sensors, analytics and artificial intelligence is now changing that approach, enabling manufacturers to identify potential failures before they result in costly downtime.