Egypt’s printing, packaging exports rise by 65%

The Egyptian Export Council for Printing, Packaging, Paper, Literary and Artistic Works has announced that the count’s export of printing, packaging, paper, literary and artistic works rose by 65 percent from January to February, hitting $198 million, compared to $120 million in the same period of 2021.   The council’s report stated that five countries …

Innovia Films to open multi-layer co-extrusion line in Poland

Innovia Films (Innovia), one of the major producers of highly differentiated speciality films has announced the opening of a new 6.2 metre multi-layer co-extrusion line at its site in Płock, Poland. The state-of-the-art line will be dedicated to manufacture low-density polyolefin shrink film for shrink sleeve labels and tamper evident applications.   The film forms …

Capacity expansion project at Husum mill progresses

To meet the growing demand for sustainably produced packaging materials, Metsa Board announced last year an investment to increase the annual folding boxboard production capacity at its Husum mill by 200,000 tonnes.   To extend the current folding boxboard capacity, detailed engineering and civil works have been in progress for several months. The board machine …

Alupro reports record year for aluminium packaging recycling

According to annual data published by the Environment Agency*, UK’s aluminium packaging recycling rate was a record 68% in 2021, with more than 156,000 tonnes collected for recycling (a 3% rise year-on-year). More than four in five beverage cans were recycled last year (82%) – matching the previous record set in 2020.   Despite a …

WPO launches Waste Stream Mapping Guides for 21 countries

The World Packaging Organisation (WPO), in conjunction with FH Campus Wien University of Applied Sciences, Austria, Circular Analytics and ECR Community, have launched the 21x countries ‘Waste Stream Mapping Guides’ as the second stage of the Global Packaging Design for Recycling Guide program. The countries contemplated are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, …

Ipack-Ima 2022: All about technology and innovations

Ipack-Ima opened its doors on 3 May 2022 with all the process and packaging solutions for the manufacturing industry at Fiera Milano. Innovation and sustainability at industrial and production level in a unique European business ecosystem.   The importance of the event was confirmed by the numbers expressed by the exhibition. Valerio Soli, President of …

Alpla and Voslauer to reduce carbon footprint

The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, has developed a new returnable PET bottle together with Voslauer, Austria’s leading company in the mineral water market. The sustainable bottle reduces carbon emissions by around 30 per cent and bottle weight by almost 90 per cent in comparison to the reusable alternative made of …