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The 2025 deadline for zero plastic waste and sustainable packaging is swiftly approaching. The pressure is on businesses to take responsibility for their environmental consequences and packaging is taking center stage in the entire sustainability discussion. Any changes to packaging as a result of new sustainability goals so often places essential labeling and artwork on the back foot, but forgetting to integrate this into the process can bring long delays in production and in the worst case scenario, expensive product recalls.

Global Market Insights Inc. says that the plant milk market size is anticipated to exceed $21 billion in yearly revenue by 2026, propelled by stringent regulations governing the food and beverage industry in Europe and the Middle East.

Designed to sterilize an array of food and beverage products, the SuperStatic Retort is equipped with enhanced heating and cooling technology to ensure uniform and efficient thermal processing of shelf-stable products.

JBT Corporation's Energy Recovery System integrates with new and existing JBT Steam Water Spray retort systems.

The pasta packaging was included in The Waste Age Exhibition hosted by the London Design Museum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which ran between October 2021 and February 2022.
 

TIPA and G. MONDINI SPA have come out with a home compostable wet food container.

The expanded offering for film extrusion, thermoforming, and injection molding is in line with Green Dot Bioplastics’ goal to achieve faster rates of biodegradability in ambient conditions, while meeting the growing sustainability demands of brand owners and consumers. 

Grounded Packaging brings to market a first-of-its-kind post-consumer recycled film laminate made of majority recycled materials.

EcoCortec has received industrial composability certification of its Eco-Corr Film. The film is the first biodegradable and compostable packaging film that provides contact, barrier and vapor-phase corrosion inhibition.

KM Packaging supplied Earth & Wheat with the home-compostable bag.