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Isdinceutics Essential Cleansing by ISDIN – from PCR plastics to elegant and sophisticated packaging

17 Mar 2023
Aditya Panwar

Gerresheimer's most recent post-consumer recycled packaging solution was made for their partner ISDIN, a leading Spanish company in European dermo-cosmetics.

ISDIN has selected an rPET packaging solution for its most innovative Essential Cleansing product: Oil to-milk formula with 85% natural-origin ingredients.

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Maharashtra-based startup wins Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize for biodegradable packaging solution

17 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

While efforts are on globally to cut plastic use and to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle,’ United Nations Environment Programme data shows that global production of primary plastic will touch 1,100 million tonnes by 2050. In the face of this, a Maharashtra-based start-up founded during the COVID-19 pandemic is developing an innovative solution to India's problem of plastic pollution. Their sustainable invention employs an unconventional alternative to plastic for packaging purposes: seaweed.

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IIT Roorkee develops structural color based sensors from agro-waste sugarcane bagasse to have implications for intelligent packaging

16 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Professor Pradip K Maji and his team at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, have developed a structural colour-based sensors by making structural colour from an unexpected natural resource–agro-waste sugarcane bagasse. It is a structural colour-based stimulus-responsive sensor from Nano-cellulose having implications in intelligent packaging. The colour of the laminated films comes from a ‘chiral nematic liquid crystal,' a specific molecular self-assembly that interacts selectively with specific colours of visible light.

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Nestlé pilots refillable vending machines in Indonesia

16 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

In collaboration with digital start-up Qyos by Algramo, the machines will be available at two retailers in Indonesia during a 4-6 month trial period.

Qyos was founded in 2020 and is an Indonesian start-up that aims to provide households with alternatives to single-use plastic. It is supported by machines with interface systems from Chilean environmentally friendly refill technology company, Algramo.

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Pelliconi presents a new technology for sealing baby food jars: SoPure

16 Mar 2023
Komal Sharma

SoPure® is an original solution because it is a capsule free of plasticizers such as phthalates—used to make PVC flexible—and made with Provalin®, a compound produced by Actega.

Migrational properties of Provalin® for SoPure®

Provalin® is a blend of thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) composed by more than 95% polymer and less than 5%  lubricants and stabilizers.

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Putting the ‘boogie back into bakery’ by Family (and friends)

14 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

They contain just 5 raw, natural ingredients including oats, dates and coconut sugar, and are gluten-free and vegan with no additives or colours.

However, ‘Pri’s Puddings’ (as the brand was previously named) wasn’t engaging with enough target consumers- its on-shelf presence was struggling in the highly competitive healthy snacking category and the packaging lacked strong flavour cues or a distinctive tone of voice.

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Snapple Launches fAIct Generator Powered by Technology from ChatGPT Creator OpenAI

14 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

The Snapple fAIct Generator, powered by technology from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, allows users to create and share facts via social media. Whether looking for a fact about a Snapple flavor, doughnuts, music, or our favorite furry friend, ChatGPT has got you covered. The Snapple fAIct Generator will create a database of all newly created facts and some may appear under caps in 2024.

Since the start of Snapple Real Facts, there have been 1,677 facts. For inspiration, here are a few of the original Snapple Real Facts:

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Spanish packaging firm Inden Pharma to expand footprint in India

13 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Spanish packaging firm Inden Pharma is planning to expand its business to India after partnering with Austria-based ALPLApharma that specialises in plastic packaging for pharmaceuticals. 

In a bid to increase their presence in the global market for pharmaceutical packaging, the companies have inked a pact for the certified production of bottles, containers and closures in clean rooms, starting in March. The firms are planning a combined annual production of around 800 million pharmaceutical packaging products in 2023 and a three-fold increase in the next five years.  

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