Like many other major plastics applications, plastics use in flexible packaging has come under deep scrutiny in recent years as sustainability concerns rise and spread globally. Paper is often lauded ...

1. Paper-based packaging is the sustainable alternative that consumers want from brands. More and more, consumers are demanding packages that are environmentally responsible: recyclable and renewable.

Netherlands-based flexible packaging supplier Royal Vaassen, in partnership with UPM Specialty Papers, has introduced a range of recyclable barrier paper solutions designed to meet stringent food ...

The packaging major is collaborating with a synchrotron radiation laboratory to conduct experiments on paper straws, determining how materials respond to different environmental factors, explains ...

Sustainability. Customers demand it, consumers want it, and regulators require it. Consumers today are more aware and conscious of their impact on the environment. A 2021 study shows the growth rate ...

Six empty brown paper fry boats arranged next to each other in a grid formation. Credit: William Ludwig/C&EN/Getty In the 1960s, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the company that popularized ...

A wood-based packaging solution, developed by Holmen Iggesund, one of the largest producers of premium fiber-based paperboard in Europe, demonstrates how three-dimensional formable products, such as ...

Dole Packaged Foods LLC recently announced a significant shift toward sustainable packaging. Beginning this summer, the Thousand Oaks, California-based company will use paper-based materials for the ...

Stora Enso, a paper manufacturer based in Helsinki, is extending its packaging products with a new portfolio of bio-based foams made from Forest Stewardship Council-certified wood. The company says ...

Coveris’ pre-made paper block bottom bags will serve as secondary packaging for pladis’ confectionery brands in the US.

The Zacks Containers - Paper and Packaging industry will continue to benefit from increasing packaging requirements due to the rise in e-commerce activities and steady demand from consumer-oriented ...

Your local grocery store yogurt aisle might be looking different soon. Chobani is launching its first-ever paper cups, which will replace the plastic cups traditionally used to hold its oat yogurt ...