Sustainability

Sustainability, Recycling, Extrusion: Film & Sheet, Materials

How Trinseo is ‘rethinking innovation’ at K 2019 and beyond

Newly developed AddWorks PKG 906 Circle for polyolefin film helps plastic packaging producers to achieve critical sustainability and business goals, according to Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland).

October 10, 2019

Sustainability, Automotive and Mobility, Materials

Medical

Norbert Sparrow

Global Business Director for Performance Plastics Francesca Reverberi details the three pillars—sustainability, future trends and collaborative innovation—supporting the company’s theme at this year’s event.

Decemberists performing "Everything Is Awful"

Everything is awful: Greenpeace comes to the realization that no alternative materials to plastics are eco-friendly

October 10, 2019

Sustainability

Packaging, Recycling, Materials

Mono-material barrier film solution promises to take on aluminum

In a recent report from Greenpeace, “Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution Solutions,” the organization concludes that not only is plastic bad for the environment, every other “alternative” material is, as well.

October 09, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling

Stephen Moore

O2X from Singapore’s Aegis is a hybrid solution that can be applied with a rotogravure printing roller.

Unilever commits to ambitious plastics-reduction program

October 08, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling, Materials

Back to the future: Report claims wooden cutlery is viable substitute for plastic utensils

By pledging to halve its use of virgin plastics by 2025, Unilever (London) claims to be the first major global consumer goods company to commit to an absolute plastics reduction across its portfolio.

October 08, 2019

Sustainability

Consumer Products, Materials

Flexible packaging supplier talks sustainability, circularity

The wooden cutlery market is expected to expand around 5% annually between 2019 and 2029.

October 08, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling, Extrusion: Film & Sheet, Materials

Rick Lingle

How award-winning converter TC Transcontinental (Montreal) is pushing the boundaries of what flexible packaging can do within a circular economy.

Sustainability in the medical space? It’s complicated

October 08, 2019

Medical

Sustainability, Recycling, Extrusion: Pipe & Profile, Injection Molding, Materials

Norbert Sparrow

An article in National Geographic asks if medical care can exist without plastics. “Unlike refusing a straw at a restaurant, it’s difficult to cut down on plastic while strapped unconscious to an operating table,” writes Sarah Gibbens. Would you even want to, though?

What’s new in packaging at K 2019

October 07, 2019