15 Apr 2024 --- After almost five years of planning and research, environmental consultancy expert Paul Foulkes-Arellano and material sciences specialist Dr. Julia Freer Goldstein have published a new book on how industries like... Read More

16 Nov 2023 --- Research organization Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has released a roadmap for building a leading bioplastics market in Germany. The institute’s research finds that critically missing R&D areas and inadequate... Read More

09 Nov 2023 --- The BioSupPack project has announced that it aims to develop packaging solutions based on polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) derived from beer production residues to demonstrate a feasible recycling process for these... Read More

06 Sep 2023 --- Finnish scale-up company Paptic, which specializes in manufacturing wood fiber-based packaging materials, announced it raised €23 million (US$24.7 million) in growth financing for its carbon... Read More

21 Feb 2023 --- At this year’s Packaging Innovations trade show in Birmingham, UK, fewer paper and cardboard-based companies were present than in previous years. Plastics manufacturers, however, were on full display. We... Read More

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. 

24 Jan 2023 --- In this exclusive interview with PackagingInsights, Paul Foulkes-Arellano discusses how a paradigm shift in the packaging sector could be coming in the next decades. Harmful chemicals could be replaced by benign biological solutions across the value chain, he explains, and we look at the hurdles the industry will face to achieve these advances.