Search | ProFood World

Discover your next big idea in food packaging & processing this Sept.

Experience a breakthrough in food packaging & processing—explore solutions from 2,300 suppliers spanning all industries at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

1,448 Results

Section: Sustainability

Sustainable Packaging Coalition

February 12, 2020

Dairy is First in South Africa to Use Bio-Based Closure

A new package for Woodland Dairy’s extended shelf-life milk is made from 80% renewable materials and uses a closure partly made from bio-based material, making it 100% recyclable.

February 12, 2020

Woodlands Dairy carton

Barron’s Ranks America’s Most Sustainable Companies

6 food industry leaders appear on the 2020 most sustainable companies list

February 12, 2020

Weather Stresses Logistics

Reusable Packaging Association

Responding to consumer demands to “get it to my doorstep in a day,” the nation’s supply chain leaders now have to adjust to crazy climate events around the globe. Reusable transport packaging could hold one key to a more sustainable future.

February 10, 2020

Storms, fires, floods, even volcanic eruptions, are playing havoc with supply chain partners.

Regional Coke Labels Sacrifice Branding for Recycling Education

With Coca-Cola set to roll out its new range of plastic bottles made entirely from rPET in Sweden, the beverage giant is unveiling new labels that sacrifice its iconic red and white-cursive branding for a powerful recycling message.

February 6, 2020

Recycle Me Again Portfolio Shot

2020 Pharmapack Award Winners Announced

The Pharmapack Awards celebrate the latest innovations from packaging companies within the drugs, medical devices, health products and veterinary drugs sectors.

February 6, 2020

Credence MedSystems, one of two winners in the “Best Innovation in Drug Delivery Device,” was chosen for its Connect™ Auto-Sensing Injection System, which incorporates real-time monitoring of critical injection data into a reusable ergonomic grip. The Credence app also measures and transmits injection progress in real-time, as well as providing users with reminders and instructions on how to use the auto-injector.

U.S. Needs to Up its Recycling Game

Germany leads the world with a recycling rate of 68%, but the U.S. doesn’t even make the top ten according to “2019 Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing,” a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence.

February 4, 2020

U.S. Needs to Up its Recycling Game

Hellmann’s Canada to Use 100% Recycled Plastic

Packaging changes for mayonnaise bottles and jars expected to save 1 million kilograms of plastic this year

February 4, 2020

Hellmann's 100% Recyled Plastic

Pharmapack Europe Unpacks Key Drivers and Challenges in 2020

Pharmapack Europe

Digital value-added medicines, waste management and the use of blockchain identified as key trends for the upcoming year.

January 28, 2020

All exhibitor innovations submitted for the Pharmapack Awards are showcased in the Innovation Gallery.

Will Monomaterials Become the Standard in Flexible Packaging?

A partnership between Dow and Enka de Colombia opens the doors to the use of recycled materials in the production of flexible packaging, and the incorporation of recycled resins into different structures, responding to a huge global need.

January 28, 2020

OPULUX™ HGT from Dow is a high-temperature, high-gloss varnish applied to surface-printed PE films of flexible packaging.

New International Guidance Set to Improve Social Responsibility in the Global Food Chain

International Standards Organization (ISO)

Social responsibility is not only good for business, it is everyone’s business. New international guidance for the agri-food sector has just been published.

January 24, 2020

Tri-Seal: Closure Liners with Reduced Material Content

TekniPlex Consumer Products

Product designed to help brand owners meet sustainability objectives.

January 22, 2020

The liners are supposed to offer plastic material reduction between 19 and 33%, as compared to Tri-Seal’s coextruded foam liners.

Q&A: The New OQ Standard for Reusable Pharma Shippers

Increased demand for reusable passive thermal packaging systems has led to a need for industry standardization. Learn how pharma companies and suppliers are coming together to streamline adoption—and how you can benefit.

January 21, 2020

ISTA Pharma Committee set to release its OQ best practice guideline.

At Pharmapack, Neopac to Showcase SpringTube for Skin Health Products

Hoffmann Neopac AG

Company also will feature its new Tube Design Guide, a multi-step primer for optimum recyclability.

January 20, 2020

Featuring a tamper-evident, push-on PE flip-top cap, the printer-friendly SpringTube, can be decorated via digital, flexo or metallic foil processes.

McCormick Ranked World’s 22nd Most Sustainable Corporation

McCormick & Co. Inc.

Is at top in food category on Corporate Knights 2020 Global 100 Sustainability Index

January 19, 2020

Conagra Brands Announces Sustainable Packaging Goal

Is striving to make 100% of current plastic packaging renewable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025

January 19, 2020

The Coca-Cola System to Invest Billion Euros over Next 5 Years

The Coca-Cola Company

Money earmarked to support development in variety of ways in France

January 18, 2020

Nestlé Creates Market for Food-Grade Recycled Plastics, Launches Fund to Boost Packaging Innovation

Nestlé today announced that it will invest up to CHF 2 billion to lead the shift from virgin plastics to food-grade recycled plastics and to accelerate the development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions.

January 17, 2020

Recycling Photo

Page 54 of 81