Spouted pouches added to Sirane’s recyclable plastic range

These spouted pouches join Sirane’s RePEat range – which includes stand-up pouches and films. All made from pure PE, and can be recycled in the LDPE recycling stream.
Clean O2 launches body bar soap that transforms CO2 into pearl ash

Part of a wider global partnership initiative between UKRI, WRAP, and the smart sustainable plastic packaging (SSPP) challenge.
New-look London Packaging Week

A vibrant new home for collaboration, discovery, and innovation for the capital’s packaging community.
Smart packaging trends: Appetite Creative

Smart packaging trends: Appetite Creative
Cognac packaging: A. De Fussigny innovates with flax bottle

A. de Fussigny’s 2050 Cognac is the first spirit to be housed in Green Gen Technologies’ bottle made from flax fibers, plant-based resins and an RPET liner.
Hunter Luxury’s alternative approach to packaging

Champagne packaging innovations, consumer trends… where is the market headed?
Smart Packaging: CLINIQUE integrates Near Field Communication (NFC) technology into its product experience

CLINIQUE partnering with connected experience pioneer SharpEnd.
IS RIHANNA’S FENTY BEAUTY SET TO ENTER THE METAVERSE?

Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty brand is rumoured to be entering the metaverse, with the star filing a trademark to sell the products as virtual cosmetics.
7 global wine, spirit and beer brands embracing NFTs

On 19 October 2021, alcohol brands got a shot in the arm with the launch of BlockBar, A marketplace for spirit labels to sell their NFTs.
“It’s always impressive to see how a one-off design can create a new sense of excitement”

Josh Brooks, marketing & community director, packaging, Easyfairs on the most exciting innovations in the sector
The lotus effect: Researchers develop self-cleaning bioplastic to repel climate change

Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a self-cleaning bioplastic based on the biological structure of lotus leaves, which they say can prevent product waste and aid recycling processes in food and beauty markets. Mehran Ghasemlou, the lead author of the study, tells PackagingInsights the invention was inspired by the “notoriously water-repellent lotus leaf,” […]
Noticing Notpla? Seaweed pack pioneer disrupts conventional plastics with product expansions

Chemical pollution has passed the threshold of a stable environment for the first time in 10,000 years, according to new research by the American Chemical Society.