Don't miss out on the latest updates! Sign up for our Namaste Packaging newsletter and join our community of over 100,000 packaging professionals. Get the latest news, trends, and innovations delivered straight to your inbox.
AE Global, a leader in sustainable packaging solutions, is empowering consumers with new verified plastic-negative and plastic-neutral certifications for product packaging. The environmental impact verification is conducted in partnership with the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, rePurpose Global.
Melodea produces barrier coating material sourced from wood pulp, a sidestream of the paper-making industry. Its innovative green solution is helping food, beverage, and consumer goods packagers sever unwanted ties with plastic.
StePac, specialized in developing advanced functional packaging solutions, is pioneering the use of chemically recycled plastics for the packaging of fresh perishables. The company was recently REDcert2 certified to incorporate chemically recycled polyamide 6 into its flexible, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) products.
Milchwerke Schwaben wanted to redesign the 1kg UniPak container used for its Weideglück brand of yoghurt- and milk-based desserts, to reduce the container’s weight and its use of base materials. According to Jakob Ramm, the company’s managing director, the benefits have been numerous.
Kellogg began rolling out packaging with NaviLens accessibility features in the United Kingdom in 2022. Initially printed on Special K boxes, the company transitioned all other UK cereal brands to the new packaging throughout the year.
Over the last twelve years, Big Marble Farms has grown from 5 to 55 acres. "And we have lots more expansion planned for the coming years," the team reveals. Big Marble Farms also markets greenhouse products from roughly 25 Albertan growers spanning nearly 200 acres. The name was born out of the founders’ desire to weave sustainability into the operations. Packaging provided a major opportunity for this.
House of Pops, everyone’s favourite healthy treat on a stick, is marking this festive season with a special delivery box from Santa – created by Dubai-based designer Mika.
Mika also turned his hand to a matching greeting card to accompany the special gift box.
CEO Mazen Kanaan says: “We met Mika via Instagram, where he tagged us in a post of a painting he made using House of Pops sticks – and we loved it! So, we reached out to him for a special seasonal packaging collab, and we hope our loyal customers love his take on Christmas as much as we do.”
With the council now able to collect aluminium foil at the kerbside, the initiative aims to raise awareness of the importance of recycling – especially at Christmas, when packaging volumes increase.
Challenging children to create a festive A4 poster design incorporating used (but washed) aluminium foil, eager entrants can sign up to participate through their school. The winning design will take home a £50 cash prize, while their school will receive £500 in vouchers to spend on sustainable supplies and activities.
Encirc, a Vidrala company, plans to build a new furnace at its Elton plant, Cheshire, which will change the face of glass. The furnace will:
A Scottish sustainable packaging pioneer has clinched the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 awards' UK Transformational Leader title.
Glasgow-based David MacDonald, owner of Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging, won the national award at the ceremony in Manchester.
A panel of entrepreneurial peers judged him the best of more than 30 semi-finalists and 19 finalists.
Engel Used Machinery is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, in what Leopold Praher (pictured), the business’ general manager, calls the largest and fastest growing market (Eastern Europe) for pre-owned injection moulding machines.
Praher has been with Engel for more than 30 years, most recently as sales manager Elast/LIM with responsibility for the company’s global elastomer and thermoset business. He will initially continue in that role also, until a successor is appointed.
