March 2023

The agriculture and food packaging sectors consume roughly 45% of worldwide plastic production. Maria J. Lopez, Professor of Microbiology and Project Coordinator of the RECOVER project, explains how it aims to deliver new biorecycling routes for food packaging and agricultural plastic waste

ACT2100™ will provide enhanced performance; available worldwide to offer enhanced business continuity and shorter supply chains.

Amcor introduced ACT2100™ heat seal coating for medical grade DuPont™ Tyvek®2 and paper packaging applications. This next generation coating technology delivers enhanced performance features for healthcare applications and will be produced in multiple locations worldwide to offer customers increased flexibility to be supplied from the most suitable location for the manufacturing and packaging of their devices.

Wooden pallets are often used for transporting goods. But some alternatives could have critical advantages. For example, the manufacturer of plastic pallets Cabka produces pallets made of recycled plastics which are especially suited for the chemical industry.

After a government''s order last year that mandated BIS standard for tinplate and tin free steel products import, a few exporters from other countries have applied for registration and approval of their plant, but due to COVID-19 conditions all such applications have been put on hold by Bureau of Indian Standards, it added.

The implementation of the order has now been extended up to July 17, 2021.

"This has resulted in virtual zero import of these essential materials, thereby resulting in a shortage of tinplate containers.

Granules India inaugurated and launched its packaging facility through its Granules Consumer Health (GCH) step-down subsidiary which is located in Manassas, Virginia, US, the company said in an exchange filing.

The facility is over 79,000 square feet and is equipped with packaging lines and clean rooms to package and ship prescription and over-the-counter products across the U.S. market.

Melodea, Ltd., a producer of sustainable barrier coatings for packaging, launched VBseal, a new sustainable packaging solution that the company said can be used as an alternative to plastic.
 
The green coating solution is resistant to water vapor, oil, aroma, and has heat-sealing properties. The company brought its first products to market, MelOx and VBcoat, last year. VBseal is resistant to water vapor, oil, aroma, and has heat-sealing properties.
 

The acquisition of MK Printpack is expected to further strengthen Parksons Packaging’s leadership position in the folding cartons market in India. MK Printpack’s innovative packaging solutions and technical expertise in ‘fluted packaging’ also known as litho-laminated micro-fluted packaging is expected to augment Parksons’ product portfolio while MK’s strategically located manufacturing facilities will help Parksons expand its capacities and deepen its geographic reach.