OPINION

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

New sustainable materials look to 2025

The sustainability of packaging materials has been at the centre of the industry for years, but especially in recent times, when legislation at European and Spanish level points to 2050 as the year by which climate neutrality must be achieved, according to the European Green Deal. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Opinion - JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

interpack reaches pre-pandemic figures

I think we can all agree that sectoral fairs are frequently more than mere sale showcases. They act as drivers to revitalise markets, attracting innovation and "forcing" companies to devise a series of advances, new developments or improvements to show any professional visiting their stand that they are looking at a first class company, fully committed to the evolution of the sector. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Packaging sustanaibility: The time is now!

The sustainability of packaging is no longer an option, it is a legal obligation, and its compliance affects not only the manufacture of packaging, but also its end of life and its management as waste ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Opinion - JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

Interpack 2023: a catalyst for innovation in the packaging industry

There are 2 important events on the horizon in the world of packaging and labelling. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Together for packaging

In 1995, ITENE and y PressGraph mediaGroup joined forces to publish the first issue of InfoPack magazine. Our research centre had started its activity only one year before and we were only 4 people in the team - today we already count 185 professionals -. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Opinion - JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

Here's to the next 300 issues!

As far back as I can remember, at the end of the last century, after many years of experience in industry and the graphic communication sector, we at the PressGraph mediaGroup met the need for quality technical and professional information for the world of packaging with our initial title, Embalajes Modernos. Straddling the centuries, and with the significant help of ITENE, this became the InfoPack whose 300th edition you, dear readers, already have in your hands ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste: implications for industry and next steps

On 27 December, the Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste was approved. We already informed of various drafts of this decree during 2022, which we have been analysing in previous articles. Thus, the entry into force, on 1 January, of the plastic tax established in the Law on Waste and Contaminated Land for a Circular Economy, is joined by this new regulation with many implications for the industry that uses or manufactures packaging ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Opinion - JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

The new plastic tax comes into effect

We start the new year with renewed strength and with more desire than ever to explain what is happening in the packaging industry, while serving as best we can as a guide and source of inspiration ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

Opinion - JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

The three key objectives of the draft European Packaging Waste Regulation

The European Commission has taken a further step towards achieving climate neutrality by 2050, as set out in the European Green Deal, with the publication on 30 November of the draft European Packaging Waste Regulation. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ZABALETA, managing director of itene

Opinion - JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack

The new plastic tax, more pressure on the food industry

The entry into force on January 1 of the new plastic tax is raising hackles in the food industry. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: JAVIER ROMERO, editor of Infopack