Print and Packaging

The renewal of Metsä Board's pulp mill in Husum, Sweden, is in full swing. The measures include the construction of a new modern recovery boiler and a turbine. Metsä Board, a leading European producer of premium virgin fiber-based board and part of the Metsä Group, is pursuing the goal of ensuring completely fossil-free production plants and raw materials by 2030. The modernization of the Husum mill is a significant step towards this goal.

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Packaging, paper and co-packing firms are being urged to join an “80 million paper bottle revolution” after British sustainable packaging company Frugalpac unveiled the latest drinks firms to use the world’s first paper bottle, the Frugal Bottle.

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Sustainability and climate protection are playing an increasingly prominent role in all aspects of life, and not even the Covid-19 pandemic has managed to push them off the agenda. Reducing environmental impact has become a much more important factor in recent years in every sector of the economy. Print service providers are no exception – not only because of the increasingly stringent environmental standards that the industry must meet. Sustainability is also high on the list of priorities for printers’ customers and consumers. Not surprisingly, the prospects of success are better for businesses that opt for sustainable processes.

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By Graham Kennedy, Head of Commercial Ink Jet Business,Graphic Communications Group, Ricoh Europe
Demand for sustainable printing, faster adaptability for clothing lines and the influx of creative design in fashion. Future Market Insights identified these as some of the drivers for the predicted growth of the global Direct to Garment (DTG) printing market to £2.31bn by 2023.

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Consolidates three facilities into one built for future growth and designed with consideration of neighboring homes and businesses in mind

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The robust, fully biodegradable packaging made by Magical Mushroom Company® is now protecting Raymarine’s state-of-the-art DockSense™ Control technology

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The life-size displays in the form of the well-known TV children's character Cory Carson have been awarded the Bronze POPAI D-A-CH Award 2021. The displays for VTech, an international company known for learning toys and telecommunications, market the new toys from the "Go! Go! Cory Carson" series in specialist retailers. The award-winning displays are made from sustainable corrugated cardboard.

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New HP Amplify Impact program represents major step forward in company’s ambitious goal to become the most sustainable and just technology company by 2030

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SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced that Delica AG will be introducing a new range of more sustainable coffee capsules based on SABIC’s certified renewable polymers for use in its proprietary Delizio capsule machines. Delica will be using certified renewable polypropylene (PP) resins in the coffee capsules. The bio-feedstock based “second generation” materials are part of SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio of circular products and services. The new capsules were introduced in the market in April 2021 and replace fossil-based virgin PP.

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Mondi’s EcoWicketBag has been recognised in the gold category of this prestigious award, for its overall performance, reduction of CO2 emissions and convenience for the customer.

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