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The Kite app facilitates secure card payments, embracing the convenience of modern digital payments by supporting both Google and Apple pay. Customers can enjoy swift, seamless transactions using their preferred mobile payment options, ensuring a hassle-free checkout process.

Customers can also manage their payment methods with ease. Whether updating card details or adding new payment options, this feature provides complete control over payment preferences.

In doing so, Chase Plastics will aim to ensure that recovered ocean LDPE is recycled so that it can usefully contribute to the Circular Economy. Once recycled, the resultant rPE will be available to purchase directly from Chase Plastics or via Summit Systems who will also distribute the product. 

Little Gem Kale Crunch and Romaine Butter Crunch are two of the three new Bright and Crunchy blends being launched this fall.

“We constantly challenge ourselves to do more with less,” said T. Bruce Taylor, vice president of organic and Earthbound Farm. “We are thrilled that our new packaging has been a hit with our consumers while helping us and our customer partners make progress towards our collective sustainability goals.”

Coca-Cola 3000 Zero Sugar, which also had its flavour co-created by AI, comes in a ‘futuristic’ packaging design which includes ‘colourful’, ‘bright’, and ‘optimistic’ tones.

The design showcases liquid in a morphing, evolving state, which Coca-Cola said is communicated through form and colour change that emphasise a positive future, with AI being used to understand how fans envision the future through aspirations, emotions, colours, and flavours.

VI-6 is a self-service platform that allows packaging engineers to test package designs in a virtual environment. This virtual testing environment produces a digital twin of physical environments, which eliminates the need to produce costly and time-consuming physical package prototypes typically required to gauge the durability of material and design. VI-6 also helps customers create packaging with less material while maintaining the levels of structural integrity needed to withstand the rigors of commercial transport and delivery.

Henkel and CCL have together won the AWA (Alexander Watson Associates) Sleeve Label Award in the category “Environmental Contribution” for their sustainable design of Henkel’s Vernel fabric softener bottle.