INFOPACK NEWS _ 04/06/2023

News - Empresa

Robert Welford appointed as President of Xeikon

Flint Group has announced the appointment of Robert Welford as President for Xeikon, its digital division. Stepping up from his current position as Vice President of Research & Development, he will now lead Xeikon through the next phase of success, reaffirming its deep commitment to bringing the latest innovations in digital printing to customers across the globe ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Empresa BRAND: Xeikon

News - Pharmacy and Parapharmacy

Pharmaceutical packaging: Safety is what counts

The demand for pharmaceutical products is increasing worldwide, with more and more medications being launched onto the market in ever shorter periods of time. Last year alone, turnover in the German pharmaceutical market – the largest in Europe and the fourth largest worldwide – was around 53.6 billion euros ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Pharmacy and Parapharmacy BRAND: interpack

Markets - Beverage

58% of Consumers Agreed that Rigid Packaging Provides Better Protection for Food

According to new study Beverage Packaging Consumer Insights, overall, about half of consumers agree that packaging is an important factor when making grocery shopping choices. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Beverage BRAND: The Freedonia Group

Events - Fairs

Practical digitalization solutions for needs-based, secure processes: Fraunhofer IVV at interpack 2023

The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging will be pre-senting its new technologies and solutions for business in the packaging and food industry at the interpack trade fair from May 4–10, 2023 at the VDMA booth C54 in hall 4 ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Fairs BRAND: Fraunhofer IVV

News - Circular Economy

Plastics tax: keys to achieve exemption from payment of the tax

The publication of Law 7/2022 on 8 April 2022 has brought a lot of commotion in many aspects. One of the most relevant and with the greatest impact on Spanish companies is the creation of a special tax on non-reusable plastic packaging that came into force on 1 January. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE

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