16 Nov 2022 --- As the “humanization” of pets continues, consumers are demanding environmentally sustainable food packaging solutions, a greater packaging variety and clear on-pack... Read More

27 Jun 2022 --- Circular economy regulations for plastic food packaging are becoming increasingly stringent, but the desperately low availability of food-grade recyclate has left businesses in the Western world struggling to meet... Read More

20 Jun 2022 --- UK food packaging businesses are being forced to pay a plastic packaging tax they cannot comply with while the financial penalties ensued could force companies to push additional costs onto consumers, warns Wayne... Read More

07 Apr 2022 --- Packaging companies are being hindered in their efforts to produce easy-to-recycle plastic products by a “lack of political courage,” according to Wipak, a global F&B and pharmaceutical packaging... Read More

09 Mar 2022 --- Wipak UK is launching a “UK-first” paper wrap for butter which can be recycled at curbside within the paper waste stream. The solution also boasts a 68% carbon footprint reduction when compared to... Read More

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.

21 Apr 2022 --- Packaging innovators are being held back in their efforts to boost recycling rates for plastics by a lack of political courage, according to Stijn van de Wezemael, account manager for Benelux at Wipak. Live from trade show Empack 2022, in Gorinchem, Netherlands, Wipak presented a number of monomaterial solutions under its new GreenChoice brand. However, van de Wezemael says companies need more infrastructural help for these designs to realize their potential in reducing emissions and raising recycling rates.

07 Oct 2020 --- Wipak is on a mission to become the first carbon neutral packaging company in the world. Speaking from the Innovation Plastics Processing and Recycling Conference in Berlin, Germany, Hery-Christian Henry, head of strategic marketing and corporate social responsibility, discusses raw materials, renewable energy, carbon offsetting and solving the plastic pollution and climate change problems simultaneously.

12 Oct 2018 --- Dr. Bernd Sperlich, Research & Development Manager at Wipak, explains at FachPack 2018 some crucial R&D challenges in reducing plastic in packaging. The inclusion of paper is a key solution, exemplified by Wipaks Skinbottom carton. The transformation of certain plastic materials to become recyclable is also a large R&D task, but Wipak exhibits how they achieved this with its Thermoforming films without any polyomite.

04 Oct 2018 --- Wipak was launching its newest addition to the smart, connected packaging market: Digimac coding technology at FachPack 2018. The technology is said to enhance packaging in a new way, by integrating an invisible code into packaging design which makes more information available to the consumer, as well as being used within retail as “the barcode of the future,” according to Maik Dworczyk, Manager of the Creative team at Wipak.