Each year,the AWA International Sleeve Label Awards recognise the world’s most innovative sleeve products (heat-shrink labels). The award for environmental contribution was recently given to Sleever for its LDPET® product, the first full-body sleeve to enable enhanced recyclability of PET bottles.

A new Amcor service helps brand owners communicate the reduced carbon footprint of their packaging through independent carbon labelling from the Carbon Trust - Amcor, a global leader in packaging, announced the ‘Reducing CO2 Packaging’ Label from the Carbon Trust can now be printed on Amcor…

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, announces its commitment to expand its PET extrusion with in-line stretching capacity by 10,000 metric tonnes.

ProMach, a worldwide leader in packaging machinery solutions, announced today that it has acquired Panther Industries, a leading provider of automated labeling equipment for Fortune 1000 as well as small and medium sized businesses across North America. The addition of Panther expands ProMach’s…

With its AQUANTUM Alkali Strippable Primer and SICURA UV/LED ink technology Siegwerk sets a new standard for the recycling of PET bottles: It significantly facilitates the deinking of UV/LED-printed PET shrink sleeves further improving the quality of recycled PET bottles according to the Association…

CCL Labelcreated the cutting-edge TD Shrink Sleeve material EcoFloat™, enabling the packaging industry to meet their recycling targets and to support sustainability. This material has now been approved by the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP).

Avery Dennison has successfully achieved OK Compost certification for a BPA-free and FSC®-certified thermal label material combined with the brand new adhesive SX6030, offering brands new options to more sustainable packaging.

As the third largest producer of inks in North America, INX International Ink Co has delivered many innovative contributions to the label and packaging industry. With the backing of Sakata INX worldwide operations, their world-renowned Research & Development Centers are responsible for the…

Less glue, less raw material waste and ever-thinner, better-performing labels that can also be made from recycled resins. All this and more from a labeller family - produced by SACMI at its Verona plant – that’s part of a SACMI range designed to take the industry into the circular economy age.

UPM Raflatac is partnering with UPM Specialty Papers’ UPM LinerLoopTM recycling concept through its RafCycleTM by UPM Raflatac service in order to strengthen the labeling value chain offering of recycled content and closed loop products.

One year ago, the Eckes-Granini Group signed the “Sustainable Juice Covenant” (SJC) drafted by the “Sustainable Trade Initiative” (IDH). In doing so, Europe’s leading fruit juice producer committed itself to the goal of offering only juices and smoothies made from fruit grown and processed in…

With Coca-Cola set to roll out its new range of plastic bottles made entirely from recycled plastic (1) (PET) in Sweden, it is unveiling new labels on which the brands step aside to make way for a powerful recycling message.