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As brands with personalised packaging are growing 40% faster than others and O-I’s innovation enables drinks companies to offer a collectable bottle to their customers from one source file with no mould or label changes.

The service offers brand owners the opportunity to choose from several variations during the same print run including:

GING is a cloud-based software platform which enables users to store and share data on packaging along their supply chains in a quick, user-friendly and secure way. It is built around the free-to-use Open 3P data standard for the packaging sector, launched earlier this year, and both have been developed with a consortium of industry partners, input from over 100 packaging sector stakeholders, and funding from UK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK.

ustainable polyethylene (PE) producer Nova Chemicals has announced the establishment of its Centre of Excellence for Plastics Circularity in Alberta, Canada. 

The new hub will act as a nexus for industry leaders and Canadian R&D institutions committed to enhancing global sustainable plastics management efforts. 

Now a key player in custom-made premium cardboard packaging (paper carrier bags, folding cartons and rigid boxes), the company founded in Germany in 1855 had a purely family destiny until it was acquired in 2016 by vph GmbH & Co, a major German paper merchant and member of the IGEPA Group. Since then, Rissmann has worked to consolidate its market position with a focus on automation and sustainability, resulting in rapid sales growth to EUR 60 million in 2022, almost doubling the 2019 figure.

Packaging technology company Sealpac is adapting to the dairy segment and offers producers, such as Wildberg Käserei and Queijos Santiago, latest applications that combine product protection with efficient production, simplified logistics and an attractive presentation while using fewer consumables.

With its traysealers and thermoformers, Sealpac supports cheese manufacturers with packaging solutions that can distribute and market customers’ products. Sealpac highlights two recent examples from Switzerland and Portugal.

In conjunction with the package, the company has partnered with CIRT (Can I Recycle This), a recycling technology platform, according to the release.

Westfalia Fruit USA will showcase new sustainable packaging solutions for its avocados at the Southeast Produce Council's Southern Innovations trade show and conference in Charlotte, N.C., according to the release.

The 'Design Check' tool was developed in response to feedback from users of the guidelines who requested a way to verify if a packaging design or specification adheres to the guidelines when assessing their packaging portfolios and developing new products with partners, suppliers, and customers. The service will be launched publicly on September 19, 2023, and an information webinar will be held on the same day. 

The company says the ACP-722 RRP offers one of the smallest footprints currently available, being up to 50% smaller than equivalent casepacker models.

The single directional flow design produces a ‘lean and compact’ line layout which can also accommodate twin lines, with top speed of 20 cases per minute.

Key to the machine’s small size is the combination of case infeed and alignment, bag sorting and packing as well as case closing and sealing in one single compact unit, removing the need for additional conveyors.