01 May 2024 --- Novolex is investing in US-based reusable systems and container brand Ozzi. Eco-Products, a Novolex business unit, will help accelerate Ozzi’s portfolio growth. Novolex has not disclosed any financial... Read More

24 Apr 2024 --- A major challenge for future life on our planet is the rapidly increasing volumes of plastic waste, making the importance of reusable packaging “enormous,” according to Peter Moertl, press relations... Read More

23 Apr 2024 --- Deliver Zero, an innovator in reusable container solutions, is collaborating with DutchX, US-based zero-emission delivery operator, to integrate “sustainable logistics” into food delivery across New... Read More

19 Apr 2024 --- With the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) on the horizon, the packaging industry faces a shift toward greater transparency. Gilles Swyngedauw, the vice president for corporate... Read More

10 Apr 2024 --- Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the scope of e-commerce has expanded from retail to foodservice industry, providing convenience to consumers and new opportunities for restaurants. However, this convenience comes with... Read More

07 Feb 2024 --- We speak to Bart Willems, the co-founder of Dutch company Bottle Up, which uses sugarcane-based bioplastics to create reusable water bottles. We discuss cost competitiveness with fossil-based materials and how policy changes could aid the transition toward bio-based and reusable packaging. 

02 Feb 2024 --- We catch up with Bormioli Pharma’s group sales director, Nicola Carandente, a few days after PharmaPack Europe in Paris, France (January 22-23). Carandente tells us about the company’s latest recycled PET bottle and the pharmaceutical industry’s demand for recycled packaging applications. We also discuss emerging trends in pharmaceutical packaging.

06 Nov 2023 --- We speak to the European Paper Packaging Alliance’s (EPPA) director general, Matti Rantanen, about misunderstandings on reusable packaging and the importance of the recycling industry to achieve circularity. Our discussion follows Rantanen’s recent Insider View article on Packaging Insights. 

08 Aug 2023 --- At Interpack 2023, Wipak showcased the company’s new pouches for wet pet food, baby foods and ready meals. The pouches, previously aluminum-based, are now monomaterial PP-based applications to preserve products in recyclable and reusable packaging in line with European legislation. We speak to Wipak’s regional managing director for South Europe, Marco Reggi, and the company’s sales director, Davide Zinzalini, about the pouch.

18 May 2023 --- Aimplas is investing in R&D of natural polymers for single-use packaging to fit the European legislative changes. Lorena Rodriguez Garrido, packaging group leader at Aimplas, flags standardization of protocols for reusable packaging legislation and material waste stream pose challenges for food packaging. Additionally, the proposed Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) revisions will help resolve the industry’s greenwashing problem, she says.

20 Apr 2021 --- In this webinar, Akhil Aiyar, market analyst at Innova Market Insights, provides an exclusive presentation of the global market researcher’s Top Packaging Trends 2021. The presentation is followed by a Q&A session with three circular economy experts. Topics discussed include COVID-19 and sustainability, reusable packaging models, paper bottles and e-commerce solutions.