When people think about innovation, they often picture smartphones, electric vehicles, or artificial intelligence. Rarely does plastic manufacturing come to mind. Yet behind almost every product we use daily—food, medicine, personal care, and household essentials—there is a plastic manufacturing company in India working silently to ensure safety, consistency, and efficiency.
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Walk into any grocery store and you will find aisle after aisle of food wrapped in a host of different plastics.
Concern about chemicals and plastic in food packaging have been growing in recent years. A recent study reported that over a quarter of the 16,000 chemicals used to make plastic pose risks to human health. Consumers want alternatives without losing the convenience of plastic.
DGeo, Labelmaster’s Dangerous Goods (DG) Packaging, Technology and Services Division, today announced the expansion of its packaging portfolio with the addition of UN-certified kits featuring Ardagh glass bottles for the shipping and storage of chemical liquids.
Manufactured in Germany, Ardagh Glass Packaging’s amber chemical bottles are engineered for compliance, safety and performance. Designed to protect products from fill to final destination, the new glass bottle kits support organizations seeking reliable, UN-certified solutions for dangerous goods transport.
While LED light therapy has become a core area of expertise for Nuon Medical, new research territories are now emerging. One of them is microneedling—until now largely reserved for aesthetic medicine. At Paris Packaging Week, Nuon Medical will notably introduce two new accessories: one dedicated to hair care, the other to skin treatments.
Amcor (NYSE: AMCR, ASX: AMC), a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, is continuing to invest in its thermoforming capabilities to meet strong demand from the ready meals and dairy foods sectors.
Packaging is one of the most underestimated cost drivers in e-commerce. Beyond the cost of boxes and materials, packaging directly affects shipping fees, warehouse efficiency, product damage rates, and return logistics. With rising freight costs and increasing pressure to improve sustainability, optimizing packaging is no longer optional. It is a critical lever for improving profitability.
Lassonde Industries Inc., one of North America’s leading food and beverage companies, has inaugurated its first fruit concentrate bag-in-box production lin
Peak Nano announced a new development program to create first-of-its-kind nanolayered biodegradable multilayer polymer films for food, beverage, and medical packaging. Supported by R&D funding from the Greater Akron Polymer Innovation Hub, Peak Nano is leveraging its patented NanoPlex™ metamaterials technology to design an advanced, sustainable alternative to these barrier films without impacting performance.
In collaboration with Verdofoam®, Nexam has achieved a significant milestone. They developed a process to replace fossil-based polystyrene foam used in e-commerce packaging. The key lies in Nexam’s unique additive technology, which enables the expansion of bio-based plastics like PLA (polylactic acid). This has been a technical challenge until now.