Sustainability

Over the past two decades, steel packaging sent for recycling by RICREA, the National Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Steel Packaging, part of the CONAI System, has tripled.

For years, Etimex Primary Packaging, a German producer, has emphatically been pursuing the goal to make the packaging industry more sustainable.

From clothing items to pharmaceutical cases, from the logistics sector to the food and beverage sector... Many are the technological solutions developed for product packaging by DCM, which operates in the world of industrial packaging with customized and increasingly “green” proposals.

Quadpack, a Spanish company which produces packaging for the cosmetic industry, has recently launched Regula Refill, a recyclable, refillable, monomaterial and easy to use jar which is part of Regula family, a range of jars and airless products.

An extremely positive 2021 allows the San Benedetto Group to end the year with consolidated sales of 761 million euros, a year-on-year increase in revenues of +8.2%, and more than 4.5 billion bottles sold worldwide.

Schur Flexibles becomes adapa. The new name derives from “adaptive packaging” and underscores one of the company’s core values, of adapting to a changing world.

Thanks to DNV's certification, Goglio can produce packaging and valves with certified material derived from renewable sources alternative to fossil sources.

Stora Enso, a Swedish company which develops and produces solutions based on wood and biomass for a range of industries, has started a feasibility study for building a new formed fiber plant in Hylte, Sweden.

Greiner Packaging leading European manufacturer of plastic packaging in the food and nonfood sectors, is Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 finalist with its self-separating cup K3® r100 which enables automatic separation of cardboard and plastic on the way to the recycling facility.

The waste-to-hydrogen plant will produce up to 20,000 tons/year of hydrogen at full capacity, using 200,000 tons/year of non-recyclable solid waste as raw material

Contital offers the solution for responsible food delivery.

After a positive 2020, with performance severely affected by the covid emergency, the sector is finding a new order with improving data and two key words: wellness and sustainability.

Conserve Italia is a food processing cooperative group based in San Lazzaro di Savena (near Bologna) with a membership of over 14 thousand agricultural producers.

Word from Aliplast, which looks at the post-pandemic, raw material shortages and price tensions from an alternative and - most likely - winning point of view in several respects.

The partnership between Forever Bambù, an agricultural company from Milan, and Mixcycling, a start-up which creates sustainable biocomposites, has resulted in Sweet Home Bamboo, an innovative collection of caps, closures and accessories for room fragrances with a natural look and excellent fragrance preservation characteristics.

Green and innovation are keywords of CCL Label’s participation at drinktec 2022.

2022 is the year of a very important milestone for the Division, which has developed its business strategy by looking at both the European and American markets thanks to the subsidiary in New Jersey, MG America.

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The shelf life of fresh fruit and vegetables can be extended by several days thanks to the laser micro perforation of packaging film.

Italy is recycling more and at a lower cost. This is according to a study by Bocconi and the Wuppertal Institut presented in Brussels that not only sanctions the efficiency of CONAI's packaging management system but also highlights the ability of national companies to design green.