INFOPACK NEWS _ 01/07/2022

News - Packaging materials

Adhesive Technologies expands its activities focusing on sustainable innovations in packaging

Henkel to invest in Emerald Technology Ventures’ sustainable packaging innovation fund. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Packaging materials BRAND: Henkel

Events - Awards

3rd “Better with Less – Design Challenge” open for submissions with a jury of renowned packaging design experts

The Better with Less – Design Challenge 2022 is now open for submissions. The competition invites designers around the world to create the zero-waste packaging of the future and is open for submissions from 1 June to 1 December, 2022. A world-class jury of renowned package design experts will be looking for lighter, smarter, and circular solutions for some of the most common consumer packages. The competition is organized by a leading European paperboard producer Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Awards BRAND: Metsä Board

News - Circular Economy

New Law on Waste and Contaminated Soil for a Circular Economy: How we help the packaging sector to adapt

In the packaging sector we were expectant in recent times about the imminent approval of the Law on Waste and Contaminated Soils for a Circular Economy. Finally, this text, which regulates waste management in our country, was published in the Official State Gazette and came into force on 10 April. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE

News - Packaging materials

Sun Chemical expands SunColorBox offering with the launch of SunConnect

Sun Chemical has launched SunConnect, the latest complimentary solution to its SunColorBox, designed for the flexo corrugated printing market. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Packaging materials BRAND: Sun Chemical

Events - Conferences

New times, new ways, new opportunities

Following the last edition of Hispack 2022, where it was possible to exhibit the immense innovative power of the packaging industry like never before, after two years of a forced break for the trade fair, I am very pleased to share some brief reflections, after four intense days of meetings, interviews, press conferences and, above all, listening to professionals: ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Conferences BRAND: AIFEC

News - Cover

“Family businesses cover market niches that are harder for multinationals to exploit”

Interview with Julio Goicoechea and Silvia Amorena, CEO and CFO of Grupo Ulzama. Now operating for more than 30 years, the Navarre company Ulzama was a pioneer in the Spanish market integrating commercial, digital and packaging printing. It is a group that, above all else, believes in constant investment as a lever for growth and innovation. At InfoPack, we wanted to get to know the main players of this story better. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Cover BRAND: Ulzama Packaging

Innovation - rigid containers

Woodle, Pujolasos' innovative closure, at Luxepack NY and PCD Paris

A globally patented innovation by Pujolasos, Woodle addresses a market need: to offer a sustainable and natural closure, free of glue and with a disposable technical plastic interior to be recycled after its useful life. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: rigid containers BRAND: Pujolasos

Markets - Circular Economy

Your waste has a second life

Valorization of organic waste from urban, forestry and agri-food origin for the development of new materials. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE

Innovation - Automation and Robotics

Rotary web-fed converting solutions for the finishing of fuel cell components from Schobertechnologies

Schobertechnologies (Eberdingen, Germany), specializes in the development, design and manufacturing of rotary tools, modules and specialty machines widely used in film, foil, packaging, non-wovens and paper converting industries. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Automation and Robotics BRAND: Schobertechnologies

Innovation - Flexible packaging

A Sustainable View of Packaging in 2022 and Beyond

There are many aspects of what we used to think of as normal life that have been irreversibly changed by two factors: the pandemic and the climate crisis. And the packaging industry is not immune to these changing dynamics. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Flexible packaging BRAND: Asahi Photoproducts