Kevin Gambrill, Author at Sustainable Packaging News

Total Corbion PLA enters engineering stage for new 100 kTpa PLA plant in Grandpuits, France

27 April 2021
Bio-based

Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, confirms that it has kicked off the front-end engineering design stage for its new 100,000 tons per annum Poly…Read more →

Pointing the way to the Future of Waste Glass Processing

27 April 2021
Recyclability

Verallia Deutschland AG, a subsidiary of the Verallia Group, and Remondis Recycling GmbH & Co KG signed a joint venture (JV) agreement today to form a company called VERRE Recycling…Read more →

Nova Scientia Installs New Cutting Edge Optical Table

26 April 2021
Machinery

Nova Scientia, a high-tech supplier of fibre optic monitoring and predictive maintenance for advanced engineering, which is pushing fibre measurements to sub-nanostrain performances at MHz bandwidth, is now operational with…Read more →

New, Sustainable r-PET Cups for Beer and Other Drinks

26 April 2021
Headlines, Recyclability

With pubs and restaurants now open for outside service, Greiner Packaging has introduced new sustainable r-PET cups for beer and other drinks. “As a plastic packaging producer, Greiner Packaging has…Read more →

Production of food processing and packaging machinery decreased in 2020

26 April 2021
Machinery

Since the financial and economic crisis, there has only ever been an upwards trend for food processing and packaging machinery. In 2020, the 10-year growth phase in tis mechanical engineering…Read more →

Parkside Secures Cré Accreditation for Compostable Flexible Packaging

26 April 2021
Bio-based

Specialist packaging solutions provider, Parkside, has secured accreditation from the Composting & Anaerobic Digestion Association of Ireland (Cré) for its innovative paper compostable triplex HCPT1 packaging developed for industrial composting via food waste…Read more →

Beiersdorf launches first packaging made from certified, renewable plastic

23 April 2021
Circular Economy, Headlines

At the end of last year, Beiersdorf had announced its cooperation with the global company SABIC. The aim of the collaboration: to produce more sustainable cosmetics packaging from the certified…Read more →

Eight Start-ups Tackling Plastic Pollution Through Material Innovation and Circular Technologies

23 April 2021
Bio-based, Circular Economy

With climate change, resource scarcity and plastic pollution high priorities for brands and investors, ambitious innovators are driving forward new solutions in material science that will contribute towards a circular…Read more →

Leading Packaging Firm Announces Sustainable Product Investment

23 April 2021
Headlines, Recyclability

As part of its continued focus on product innovation for the sustainability market, one of Europe’s leading packaging suppliers, Southgate, is developing a range of new, eco-friendly packaging solutions. The…Read more →

Traceless Materials Wins Green Alley Award 2021

23 April 2021
Bio-based, Headlines

This year's Green Alley Award goes to the female founded startup traceless materials. The company was able to convince the jury with its biobased home-compostable alternative to single-use plastic and…Read more →

Arctic Paper receives Cradle to Cradle Certified™ certification

23 April 2021
Circular Economy

The full coated woodfree product range of Arctic Paper Grycksbo have been awarded a Silver Level Material Health Certificate as part of the multi-attribute Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Standard.…Read more →

Refurbishment of Vacuum Pumps by Voith Service Centres Pays off

23 April 2021
Machinery

Even a single water ring vacuum pump impaired by corrosion and wear lowers the efficiency of the complete vacuum system and reduces operational reliability. Professional maintenance of vacuum pumps has…Read more →