02 May 2024 --- Unilever’s global head of packaging, Pablo Costa, has issued an extensive statement explaining the corporation’s recent decision to scale back its plastic reduction pledges, saying that overly... Read More

24 Apr 2024 --- Unilever is “unashamedly” axing a range of its environmental sustainability pledges, in what the corporation says is a needed and realistic update given current geopolitical issues and the financial... Read More

17 Apr 2024 --- Researchers at the University of Sheffield, UK, have found that plastic products result in lower GHG emissions compared to alternative materials. 

12 Apr 2024 --- Henkel is launching a new engagement program headlined “Climate Connect,” which helps global suppliers in its supply chain make carbon emissions evaluations. While gathering data on its partners, the... Read More

13 Mar 2024 --- A survey of board directors and senior executives of fashion brands and retailers in the UK, US and Australia reveals that most (83%) have implemented new forms of environmentally sustainable packaging. The... Read More

10 Oct 2023 --- Thermoformer Plastic Ingenuity develops customized solutions for food, healthcare and retail sectors, establishing environmental sustainability while extending shelf life and product protection. Plastic Ingenuity’s corporate sustainability manager, Zach Muscato, tells us about the recent increase in consumer demand for the healthcare markets and the sustainability trends observed at the recent Pack Expo trade show in Las Vegas.

24 May 2023 --- At Interpack 2023, we talk to Greiner Packaging’s global head of marketing, Alexandria Mitterbaur, who discusses the company’s latest innovations and how EU policymakers can help businesses achieve environmental sustainability advances.

03 Apr 2023 --- Mars Klokow founded Studio Obacht to create a niche in the packaging design industry that centers around environmental sustainability and social justice. They explain that people typically choose products within 13 seconds after seeing them, making brand messaging and communication vital. Klokow says today’s packaging designers should be driven toward partnering with brands that exude positive social values to drive out the large consumer-centric companies.

25 Nov 2022 --- Sealed Air presented its primary packaging for pharmaceutical and medical devices at the CPHI trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. We discussed the packaging solutions, as well as recent supply chain pressure and its implications for the industry with Roberto Righetti, the company’s European business development director. Righetti also elaborates on the environmental sustainability credentials of the company’s packaging films and how their footprint impact can be further reduced. 

15 Nov 2022 --- Phil Marklew, sales director at Simply Carton, tells PackagingInsights about environmental sustainability being the main trend due to its high presence in the news, encouraging people to help. He taps into product development and says that the company thinks about materials, processes and how production can become better for the environment. Simply Carton mainly uses board, which makes it easy to recycle.

03 Jul 2023 --- As international leaders, civil society groups and environmental campaigners continue to negotiate legislative solutions to the global plastics pollution crisis, we look at Innova Market Insights’ Top Trends 2023, with “Plastics Circularization” ranking top. In this exclusive webinar, we debate the viability of turning our linear economy into a loop, whether this is even possible, and how start-up and mainstream packaging innovators are rising to the challenge. We discuss how circularity efforts are impacting greenwashing litigation, boosting renewable material sourcing, and how connected technologies and reusable designs are aiding the industry’s transition toward a more sustainable future.

14 Dec 2022 --- In this last webinar of the 2022 series, we will discuss consumers’ preferences for food packaging, how the packaging industry can protect human and environmental health through shelf life-extending technologies, advance waste management, and inspire global governments and F&B businesses to bolster the circular economy. Register now and submit your questions to give them the best chance to be answered!

16 Sep 2021 --- This webinar explores the accelerated growth of e-commerce home food delivery in the COVID-19 age, with special focus on the challenges and opportunities this trend presents to F&B packaging suppliers. Daniela Dorner, eCommerce director at Mondi and Akhil Aiyar, senior market analyst at Innova Market Insights, provide exclusive presentations and answer your questions on climate change, circular economy, product protection, the unboxing experience and more.

08 Sep 2020 --- Innova Market Insights has revealed its Top Packaging Trends 2020, with “The Language of Environmental Sustainability” identified as the year’s leading trend. FMCG brands are increasingly finding competitive advantage in more prominent on-pack communication of their packaging’s environmental credentials. Akhil Aiyar, Market Analyst at Innova, takes us through the trends and answers your questions on topics including circular economy, bio-based, e-commerce and connective technologies.