
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... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

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... )

News - Cover
Luis Fernández Vilela, co-founder of Coreti: A Labelling Legacy
Vision, perseverance and the courage to invest and innovate ( Read more... )
