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Sustainable snacking: Pladis extends TerraCycle initiative before Christmas biscuit boom

11 Dec 2018 --- Pladis UK & Ireland, the snacking company behind the McVitie’s, Jacob’s and go ahead! brands, has extended its partnership with TerraCycle by six-and-a-half-years to ensure that all plastic packaging across its portfolio can now be recycled through the initiative.

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NPD in action: Packaging for soups, sauces and spreads

Spreads, sauces and soups are highly susceptible to flavor loss and oxidation which elicits the need for packaging materials that retain the quality and freshness of the product. In order to achieve this, manufacturers are reverting back to glass bottles and jars in lieu of plastic packaging. In the case of soups, the need for greater convenienc..

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Bosch: Efficiency in beverage processing

Bosch was presenting its efficient beverage processing system at BrauBeviale this month in Nuremberg, Germany. The system can save 30 percent of energy costs, delivers a larger load of information on site or in the ...

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Event Review

BrauBeviale 2018 review: Craft and sustainability trends in brewing

BrauBeviale welcomed over 40,000 trade visitors (2016: 37,923) – over 18,000 of them international – to Nuremberg to attend this year’s most important capital goods exhibition for the beverage industry from November 13-15 2018. ...
13 Nov 2018 - 15 Nov 2018 Nuremberg, Germany
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French start-up launches ultra-sustainable, commercially-viable cotton coated food wrap

03 Dec 2018 --- A 29-year-old French entrepreneur has created and independently-launched a 100 percent renewable and recyclable food wrap packaging called Cosse. Produced from organic cotton coated with resin, wax and oil, the sticky but not gluey material can be used to package a wide range of foods including fruit and vegetables, pasta salad..

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Packaging for emerging markets: Urbanization and adapting consumers drive NPD opportunity

30 Nov 2018 --- Many emerging markets, such as India, Brazil, China, Indonesia and South Africa, are undergoing rapid urbanization and modernization. Often, these areas are seeing vast demographic and social shifts, such as an increasing number of women entering the workforce and average population ages far lower than in developed markets...

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11 Dec 2018 --- Unilever has invested €100,000 (US$113.842,00) in a new plastic-free laundry tablet as part of its drive to “rethink” plastic packaging. The crowdsourced innovation has the potential to replace single-use sachets of laundry powder, a popular ...

Packaging Focus : Snacks

Plastic remains the material of choice for packaging snacks, while heat sealed packets are witnessing significant growth in snack applications. Innova Market Insights data has shown a threefold increase in launch activity .. More

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Sustainable snacking: Pladis extends TerraCycle initiative before Christmas biscuit boom

Key Trends

NPD in action: Packaging for soups, sauces and spreads

Video

Bosch: Efficiency in beverage processing

Event Review

BrauBeviale 2018 review: Craft and sustainability trends in brewing

Key Interview

French start-up launches ultra-sustainable, commercially-viable cotton coated food wrap

Special Report

Packaging for emerging markets: Urbanization and adapting consumers drive NPD opportunity

Plastic-free single-use sachets: Unilever to invest in crowdsource solution

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