Medical packaging: Meeting the double challenge for security and sustainability

Jeremy Coote, CEO of Antares Vision Group’s Rfxcl company, which specializes in supply chain traceability solutions, tells Packaging Insights that the law will help prevent harmful drugs from...

November in review: Pack Expo 2024, Pharmaceutical packaging challenges, UN Global Plastic Treaty

November Pack Expo 2024: Smurfit Westrock’s North America corrugated packaging president talks US developmentAt Pack Expo 2024 in Chicago (November 3–6), we sat down with Don Sparaco, president of...

MaterialsZone highlights AI-driven product development as the packaging industry’s future

We sit down with Yudilevich to discuss the cloud-based platform’s relevance for packaging and how it can help packagers optimize workflows. We also speak about the growing influence AI and machine...

Amorepacific joins Korean government initiative on ending plastic pollution

On November 25th, the Korean government and industry launched the SPICE at the final negotiating round for a Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5). The launch ceremony was attended by Minister of...

INC-5: Faltering negotiations raise accusations of sabotage as time runs out

Benedict Wermter, a journalist and director of digital waste management company Veritas Edukasi Lingkungan, was at a plenary hall today at the INC-5 in Busan, Korea. He tells us: “The treaty is about...

DS Smith makes €34.4M investment in Hungary production sites and “eco-classrooms” 

The investment is part of DS Smith Packaging’s growth strategy in East Europe, driving sustainable packaging solutions across the region and creating value for its customers and partners.Reinier...

Berry Global to sell Specialty Tapes business for US$540M 

Berry plans to use proceeds from the transaction to pay down its outstanding debt. Berry’s pro forma net debt as of September 30, 2024 was approximately US$5.9 billion (3.5x LTM net leverage), when...

Is the European foodservice packaging sector facing an “existential crisis”?

Bates says this combination of sector growth and regulatory confusion could, in the worst-case scenario, result in three major crises: “There will be market disruption on a large scale and an abrupt...