Print and Packaging

Australian personal care brand Natures Organics has launched ‘My Soda’, the first haircare brand in Australia to offer sustainable refill solutions in supermarkets, designed to curb plastic waste by almost 80%, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

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Leading specialty chemicals innovator Perstorp is pioneering in the PVC market with the introduction of a general-purpose plasticizer partly based on renewable raw material using a traceable mass balance concept. Emoltene™ 100 Pro is a dipropylheptyl phthalate (DPHP) designed to support sustainable sourcing of renewable and recycled raw materials and reduction of carbon dioxide emission throughout the value chain.

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Lessebo Paper reports a continuous decrease in its CO2 emissions: The company emits only 19 kg of CO2 per tonne of paper. This represents a decrease of 14 per cent compared to the 2020 level, which was already historically low. The values are based on last year's data and have now been published in the environmental statement for 2021.

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The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading authority in sustainable printing certifications, announced today that Smyth Companies has achieved SGP certification at its fourth facility. Smyth, Minneapolis, MN, joins the company’s other certified facilities located in Bedford, VA, Boston, MA and most recently Austin, MN.

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Burgopak team up with Holmen Iggesund and Thames Technology to celebrate Earth Day and plant a tree in your name
Burgopak team up with partners at Thames Technology and Holmen Iggesund to support sustainable endeavours in the loyalty and gift card industry

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Last year, premium clothes brand GANT launched a circular strategy built on seven business models. They were developed with the help of Jessica Cederberg Wodmar, a sustainability expert who is also passionate about clothes and ensuring that garments have as many lives as possible.

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Sonoco Europe, a unit of Sonoco (NYSE: SON), has become a member of the Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment (INCPEN). This represents an important step in Sonoco’s ongoing effort to further develop its sustainability and corporate social responsibility credentials – and to help promote environmental awareness and decisive action in the wider packaging industry.

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FLASH DRY LED S5 Series offers enhanced performance and sustainability
Toyo Ink Europe N.V., a member of Japan’s Toyo Ink Group, today released the FLASH DRY™ (FD) LED S5 series, a new line of low energy-curable LE-UV and LED-UV inks for the offset printing market.

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Global market leader in paper-based packaging solutions Graphic Packaging International (‘Graphic Packaging’) has collaborated with start-up Mergulo, which produces a premium plant-based butter alternative, to deliver an innovative sustainable paperboard packaging solution that reflects the brand’s natural philosophy.

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Mondi’s PM19 paper machine at Ružomberok in Slovakia has begun delivering Kraft Top White, an innovative and sustainable new containerboard grade, to customers in Europe.

Kraft Top White offers a win-win solution with the strength, printability and on-shelf appeal of a white fresh fibre top layer, and a recycled fibre bottom layer.
The new machine, with a production capacity of 300,000 tonnes per annum, is part of Mondi’s €370 million investment to upgrade the mill and further reduce its environmental footprint.
The use of more than 200,000 tonnes of paper for recycling from Slovakia per year supports the circular economy by keeping materials in circulation and preventing waste.

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