namasté packaging 24th April 2023

Tetra Pak and Appetite Creative Educate Customers with Interactive Smart Packaging

World leading food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak, in partnership with creative technology studio Appetite Creative, has created a fun and interactive smart packaging experience for a leading European fruit juice producer to help educate and inspire its customers. Focusing on passion fruit, pineapple and mango flavours in the one litre range, the smart packaging utilises a web app

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World's First Flavoured Vodka In Paper Bottle Launches in Tesco Store !

Two innovative companies in South Wales have formed a green alliance to bring flavoured vodka in paper Frugal Bottles to Tesco stores.Flawless Vodka is now the worlds first brand to launch flavoured vodka in paper bottles, which are five times lighter than glass bottles and have a carbon footprint of up to six times lower.The award-winning Frugal Bottle is the worlds first and only comme

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Resealable packaging innovation

For more than a century now, resealable packaging has been favoured by people for daily household activities. This form of packaging allows people to not only store their goods safely but also carry them, and consume them with a possibility of storing new goods again in perfect condition.While we talk about almost everything in our routine conversations, packaging is one aspect that we hardly talk

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Neopac Introduces Fiber-based Tubes for Personal Care and Cosmetic Products

Companys PaperX Tube significantly reduces plastic materials and overall carbon footprint. Oberdiessbach, Switzerland Hoffmann Neopac, a global provider of high-quality packaging and dosing applications for pharma, beauty and oral care, has introduced its PaperX Tube series, which utilizes thin-walled 300 micron fiber-based laminate with 80% paper content to drastically reduce both plastic m

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Berry Celebrates the Opening of New Healthcare facility in India

Berry Global has marked the completion of its new state-of-the-art healthcare manufacturing facility and Global Centre of Excellence in Bangalore, India with a special opening ceremony.After the official ribbon cutting, customers and senior Berry personnel were honored in a traditional Pooja ceremony followed by the traditional lighting of a lamp. Guests then had the opportunity to tour the new bu

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Mettler-Toledo upgrades metal detection systems for affordable compliance and digitalization  

Innovative SENSE software enhancements allow M30 R-Series metal detection range to bring next-level automation and affordable compliance to manufacturers looking to boost performance and productivity.  Salford, Manchester, UK, 17 April 2023 Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has launched a new software update for its M30 R-Series metal detection systems designed to offer practical improvement

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IIT Roorkee innovates new environmentally friendly bio-inspired product can potentially act as a substitute to synthetic sensors.

Polymer scientists at IIT-Roorkee have claimed to have developed an indigenous technology to create "bio-based" packaging (colour) materials. They said with their technology, making counterfeit packaging of any product would be highly difficult.A peer-reviewed scientific journal - ACS Applied Nano Materials - - has published its study in its recent issue. To fulfil their objective of a bio-based t

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Offline buffering solution for maximum efficiency- AmbaFlex.

This customer sought a simple but effective way to buffer their product flow. As is often the case with cartons, small stops, and jams were common at their layout and significantly impacted the efficiency. In the case of one of those micro stops, the line needed a buffer big enough to give the engineers the time required to fix the problem. The AmbaFlex SpiralVeyor was the ideal solution. Not

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PET Multipacks go Interpack !

ALFA MACHINE is excited to present a major innovation to the European food industry.  The integration of a new pre-cut technology that produces PET easily snappable multipacks into single cups.  Polystyrene material is no longer the only way to go in multipack production, the industries can also use PET material taking advantage of its 100% recyclability and its lower price.After the gre

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Sustainable Packaging: The Innovations and Players Pushing the Circular Economy Forward

Creating a circular economy is an essential sustainability target for governments, brands, suppliers, and the public. A key driver is the risks that plastic consumption, which is expected to double globally by 2050, poses to the environment; not only is plastic waste overflowing in landfills, but a significant portion is mismanaged and leaks into the environment.Addressing plastic waste pollution

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Hard to Recycle Plastic Packaging Collection

Zero Waste Melrose will collect hard-to recycle plastic packaging as part of the Recycling and Sustainability Day sponsored by Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian.Melrose residents are invited to bring these items for free recycling: Personal care packaging: All brands of deodorant containers & caps, toothpaste tubes & caps, floss containers, and toothbrushes (remove excess product)

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SAVE THE DATE: Press conference at interpack

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you again this year to interpack (04-10 May in Dsseldorf). Following the motto "Multiply your value", we will be presenting innovative solutions from the MULTIVAC Group on a total of four exhibition areas. We want to continue to support our customers with solutions that make their processes even more efficient, secure and sustainable.Please make an ear

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The Impact of Temperature and Humidity on Tape Performance

Tapes are used in various industries for packaging, bonding, and sealing applications. However, their performance can be affected by environmental factors such as temperature and humidity. In this blog, well discuss the impact of temperature and humidity on tape performance and how to choose the right tape for your specific application.TemperatureTemperature can have a significant impact on tape p

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The Big Book of Packaging

The diverse team here at Packaging Connections is constantly striving to promulgate its vast trove of knowledge relevant to the packaging industry. In our attempts, we also hope to further new ideas and innovations that can help revolutionize the same industry.Our founder and CEO, Mr. Sandeep Kumar Goyal, has been a pioneer in the Indian sphere of packaging and has also impacted other Asian, Europ

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Product Highlight – Zero Circle

In 2014, Notpla made headlines worldwide with its seaweed packaging; packaging that is biodegradable, home-compostable, and disappears naturally. Some of it is even edible!In 2023, Notpla was joined on the list of winners of the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize for their biodegradable packaging solution by Maharashtra-based startup, ZeroCircle another organization built on the back of seaweed. P

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