In our industry it looks like a great deal of food and beverage items are opting for pouches, but rigid containers still have a strong market presence.
As this issue of Food & Beverage Packaging counts down the top 50 beverage packagers, it only seems right to toast the beverage innovators of the beer and wine markets for their innovations.
Aqua Based Technologies develops New Aqualene® 5050, an eco-friendly coating for food packaging
August 7, 2013
Aqualene® 5050, a new, eco-friendly, water-based coating, is economical, repulpable and has high oil and grease resistance (OGR) for the paper converting, food packaging and food service industries.
Public service advertising campaign is first in over 40 years from Keep America Beautiful and Ad
July 18, 2013
The average American produces 4.4 pounds of trash a day, and on the whole the United States produces over 250 million tons of trash a year. However, only about 35% is currently recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Manufacturers are taking sustainability to the next level by finding new ways to extend the life of product materials
July 15, 2013
Reduce, reuse, recycle. As a society, we’ve become accustomed to this motto in our everyday lives. We claim to be environmentally conscious through our efforts to separate recyclable goods from our waste and discard accordingly.
For the first time, Kellogg is using post-consumer resin in a retail pouch; Kellogg is implementing a reusable pouch for its Kashi cereal from Envision Plastics.
Sustainability will become the number one challenge facing the packaging industry in the next decade, having a key influence on business strategies, states a new report from Smithers Pira.
With an increasing worldwide client base, the Sustainable Packaging Alliance (SPA) has entered into Channel Partnerships for the European and North American markets.
Company aims to decrease packaging by 100,000 tons, the equivalent of about a quarter of a billion full cans of beer *
June 26, 2013
AB InBev aims to reach the goals, which are shared across 24 countries, by the end of 2017. The New Global Environmental Goals are set against a 2012 baseline.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, the plastics industry gave little thought to sensible ways of disposing of or recovering waste plastics but the issue became relevant by 1991 when the German Packaging Ordinance came into effect.