Specialty papermaker and flexible packaging company Rapids Paper + Packaging announced the commercial expansion of its ECOVA portfolio. The portfolio consists of heat-sealable and functional barrier paper packaging solutions, giving brands new opportunities to reduce plastic across a range of flexible packaging applications.

Brazilian researchers have developed a biodegradable, starch-based sensor that changes color when moisture enters food packaging. With the addition of cobalt chloride, the sensor changes from blue to pink as moisture levels rise and back to blue as they fall. Consumers and manufacturers could use it to monitor the quality and crispness of foods such as cookies with the naked eye or a cellphone camera, without complex equipment.

V-Shapes, a player in snap and squeeze mono-dose packaging solutions, is bringing its unit-dose packaging technology to brands looking to enhance customer experience, differentiate products, respond to changing consumption habits, and capture new market demand. The Italian packaging technology company has engineered a sustainable sachet alternative that moves beyond conventional tear-off pouches - combining an intuitive snap fold squeeze packaging opening with controlled dispensing packaging in a compact, portable pack. 

Pyramid Technoplast has received an amended Consolidated Consent and Authorisation (CCA) from the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), enabling the Company to receive, collect, store, transport and recycle industrial packaging waste generated by other companies, including empty barrels, containers and liners contaminated with hazardous chemicals/wastes.