Items Tagged with 'closures'

Consumer behavior is shifting dramatically due to GLP-1 medications, leading to smaller portion sizes and intentional eating. Food businesses must realign packaging strategies to meet these new demands, emphasizing flexibility, freshness, and food safety to succeed.

Across the packaging sector, cost inflation driven by energy markets and petrochemical feedstocks has translated directly into higher prices for plastic closures and other packaging products. 

Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), the Swedish pioneer in fiber-based packaging innovation, has announced a major milestone: its latest generation of fiber screw caps can match or outperform fossil plastic in material cost, while delivering significantly lower energy consumption during production.

Following a successful pilot launch, Great Earth of Scandinavia has decided to implement fiber-based closures developed by Blue Ocean Closures on all of their supplement products and is once again leading the way towards more sustainable packaging.

Building on its successful operations in Kenya and South Africa, recently strengthened with the acquisition of the facility owned by Astir Vitogiannis in Johannesburg, Guala Closures is investing in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and one of its fastest-growing markets.

On a mission to reduce plastic pollution and its climate effects, Blue Ocean Closures AB has developed a proprietary vaccum press forming technology and is producing fiber-based closures, recyclable as paper.

The move provides a cost-effective solution for brands and retailers in the sector seeking to further enhance their sustainable packaging offering.

In his new role, Meussling will continue to lead the brand’s sustainability efforts and drive collaboration with industry suppliers and partners to accelerate the development of innovative, sustainable flexible packaging solutions.

Partnering with TIPA and the Fresh-Lock team enabled them to move away from petrochemical-based packaging and step into the world of bio-based, compostable solutions.

The solution’s special design enables flexible integration of the security feature, offering an effective and cost-efficient solution for product protection, and helping to secure the broader pharmaceutical supply chain.