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Transcend Packaging starts up facility in Italy

13 Aug 2021
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Located in Ala in the province of Trento, Transcend’s 5,000 sqm Italian facility will have a production capacity of two billion straws per year (almost 40 million per week) and will be operated in partnership with ICIS Group, a producer of printed cartons and multipack clusters.

Transcend straws are manufactured using FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified paper and meet the high EU standards for direct contact with food and drink.

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EUBP criticises biased interpretation of EEA study on biodegradable and compostable plastics: consumers do understand value and proper end-of-life of compostable plastics

10 Sep 2020
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Berlin, 9 September 2020 – In response to the new report “Biodegradable and compostable plastics – challenges and opportunities” by the European Environment Agency (EEA), European Bioplastics (EUBP) highlights the need to acknowledge successful precedents in the deployment of these innovative materials in collaboration with a receptive community of consumers. Unfortunately, several media outlets made use of a biased interpretation of the report to draw a distorted picture of biodegradable and compostable plastics.

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Thirteen partners from Mediterranean countries join forces to improve traceability and reduce fraud in the fish supply chain

18 Apr 2020
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SUREFISH (2020-2023), financed with 2 million euros by the PRIMA (Partnership on Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) Program in the framework of the Horizon 2020 program, brings together organisations, companies and research centres from Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon with an interdisciplinary approach to, through R&D, ensure fish authentication and reduce fraud based on RFID, Blockchain, TTI (time-temperature indicators) and tamper-proof technologies as well as to harmonize and validate related analytical methods and create a trans-national laboratories network.
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