INFOPACK NEWS _ 26/03/2023

News - Pharmacy and Parapharmacy

The seamless, automated packaging of pharmaceuticals

Secondary packaging for pharmaceutical products is subject to stringent product protection and labelling requirements. A consistently high-quality, reliable, safe and controlled packaging process is therefore absolutely essential in the pharmaceutical sector ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Pharmacy and Parapharmacy BRAND: Schubert

News - Circular Economy

Successful pilot project: Recycled EPS/styrofoam from the yellow bag becomes new packaging

With their own initiative, the German manufacturers of EPS packaging (EPS = expanded polystyrene/styrofoam) have successfully demonstrated in a pilot project that sorting EPS out of the yellow bag and subsequent recycling works and makes ecological and economic sense in the process ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen

Innovation - rigid containers

Pharmaceutical packaging and the 2030 challenges

We are at a time when the shortage of certain products and the rising cost of raw materials and energy have occurred at the same time, and the need for a transition from a linear economy based on consume, use and throw away, i.e. to think about the reuse of resources and the generation of raw materials from the waste of products already used, is becoming more evident. In short, a change focused on sustainability. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: rigid containers BRAND: ITENE

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

News - Cover

Luis Fernández Vilela, co-founder of Coreti: A Labelling Legacy

Vision, perseverance and the courage to invest and innovate ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Cover BRAND: Coreti

News - Feeding

Artisan Pork Snacks Win US Consumer Hearts

Benestar Brands benefits from efficient collaboration with tna solutions ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Feeding BRAND: Tna

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

News - Packaging materials

OUATBOX CHANVRE - high-performance biosourced wedging solution

Cavac Biomatériaux is expanding its range of biosourced technical solutions by offering an efficient and ecological wedging system based on hemp. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Packaging materials BRAND: Cavac

News - Empresa

New issue of Infopack Online magazine available

We started 2023 with an interview with a model businessman for his vision to detect talent and let it progress to make Coreti one of the absolute references for self-adhesive labels in our country. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Empresa BRAND: Infopack Magazine

Innovation - Automation and Robotics

Optimizing the application of adhesives thanks to cobotics

Meler, HMI-MBS and Universal Robots pool their know-how to offer an adhesive application workshop with the help of a collaborative robot. The demonstration took place on January 19 at Meler's Orleans facility ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Automation and Robotics BRAND: Meler