Category: Packaging
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Flexible confectionery packaging is edging closer to recycled-content scale deployment. Mondelēz has moved Marabou chocolate wrappers into a chemically recycled material structure.
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Reflex and M&S have launched a recyclable produce punnet format. The pack gives premium tomatoes greater shelf visibility while supporting recyclable fresh produce packaging across selected 220g and 360g lines.
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Britain and the Netherlands are aligning circular economy finance frameworks. The partnership aims to support common definitions, indicators, and investment routes for circular packaging, by-product use, waste reduction, and industrial infrastructure.
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Europe’s reusable transport packaging sector wants stronger circular economy support. The call focuses on pallets, trays, crates, EPR reform, public procurement, and supply chain resilience under the forthcoming Circular Economy Act.
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Italian packaging and processing machinery revenue approached €10.5bn during 2025. Food and beverage remained the largest end-use markets, reinforcing the sector’s importance to European automation, packaging, and line integration.
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New JRC estimates sharpen Europe’s food packaging compliance pressure further. Food and beverage dominate the study scope, while plastic is the only packaging material category to show absolute growth between 2011 and 2025.
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Carlsberg and Sapporo are expanding their global brewing partnership platform. The agreement covers Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, UK production and distribution rights, and long-term growth for Sapporo Premium Beer.
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European packaging groups are seeking regulatory stability on plastics rules. Industry associations have warned that reopening the Single-Use Plastics Directive too soon could increase fragmentation, compliance cost, and investment uncertainty.
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Coexpan is pushing recycled polystyrene into Europe’s food-contact packaging systems. Its rPS Food platform targets cup-to-cup circularity for yoghurt and other thermoformed applications.
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Mars is moving more packaging toward circular design standards globally. The group says 67.6% of its consumer-facing packaging is now designed to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable.