Milliken & Company, a global diversified manufacturer with more than a century and a half of materials science expertise, has formally acquired Zebra-chem GmbH (“Zebra-chem”), a global chemicals company known for its peroxide and blowing agent masterbatches. With more brands and governments globally setting goals to increase their use of recycled materials, plastics manufacturers are faced with the challenges of […]

Engineering firm, Hanbury-Autogil joined forces with packaging giants PFF to create protective equipment on a mammoth scale. With huge production targets to meet, PFF turned to the Devon-based engineers and designers in an effort to increase their output of protective aprons. PFF was using imported industry-standard machines but needed to step up their game to meeting huge production demands. Hanbury-Autogil […]

Mondi has successfully developed a new recyclable functional barrier paper range. Designed with protection in mind, this range of certified recyclable barrier paper solutions is fully integrated across Mondi’s value chain – from paper production to the barrier application – and can run on existing filling lines for form-fill-and-seal (FFS) applications. Mondi’s AegisPaper range reduces the amount of plastic used […]

The dedicated Antalis Machinery team delivered a speedy installation of the PACjacket automated system to ensure that a leading high street retailer was able to cope with the growing demand for online ordering. This time- and labour-saving automated packaging solution is designed to create on-demand bubble mailers for high volume e-commerce applications. The retailer had already invested heavily in carton […]

Comexi, a global supplier of solutions for the flexible packaging printing and converting sector, and Royal Sens, a company specialising in the production of glue-applied labels and packaging materials for a wide range of applications, have signed an acquisition agreement for an Offset CI8 printing press. The use of Comexi’s offset central impression printing technology and EB (Electron Beam) curing […]

AG Barr – maker of the iconic IRN-BRU – is accelerating its journey towards carbon neutrality and has announced that all of its soft drinks consumer multipacks will be wrapped in 100% recycled shrink wrap by the end of 2021. This move alone will save 400 tonnes of virgin plastic a year; equivalent to the weight of about 250 cars. […]

Where the Trade Buys (WTTB) has announced that collaboration and business support services via the Independent Print Industries Association (IPIA) – for trade print resellers and design/marketing agency customers – will be funded for its Rockstar customers each month. “The Covid crisis in 2020 showed the value of working together – the IPIA is an excellent example of how shared […]

Avery Dennison has introduced rDT, the first commercially-available direct thermal paper labels to contain recycled post-consumer waste. Direct thermal (DT) paper is a popular material due to its ease of use, high print speed, high image resolution, and wide range of compatible printers. Avery Dennison’s new rDT is the first recycled uncoated direct thermal paper label material available on the […]

This week Tetra Pak announced the introduction of certified recycled polymers, making it the first company in the food and beverage packaging industry to be awarded the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) Advanced Products certification. Its carton packages integrating attributed recycled polymers are now available for food and beverage manufacturers. This move marks a key step in Tetra Pak’s approach to circularity which includes: minimising dependency on […]

Milliken & Company’s Chemical Division has joined the Global Organisation for PHA (GO!PHA) to help address the technical and market development challenges related to polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biodegradable biopolymers. Milliken will bring to GO!PHA its expertise in polymer chemistry to help improve the processing, performance, aesthetics and other important attributes of PHA. The goal is to expand the application range of […]