Food & Beverage

Packaging paper manufacturer Sappi is now further expanding its extensive portfolio with the “Seal Light Gloss” and “Guard MH” functional papers to offer its customers solutions that are even more customized to their specific product requirements. The innovation leader is making a decisive contribution to sustainability with these two new flexible packaging papers.

Upfield has recently unveiled the new Flora spread packaging created in collaboration with Footprint as a plastic-free solution that will greatly increase the product's eco-friendly nature.

Lidl GB is scrapping ‘Use By’ dates across its key dairy lines and replacing them with ‘Best Before’ dates as it looks to help customers reduce food waste at home. The move will apply to labelling on the supermarket’s own brand yoghurt and fresh milk ranges. Lidl’s updated milk packaging has already started filtering into stores across England and Wales.

Following successful commercial consumer testing in 2022, Tetra Pak and Lactogal have now launched an aseptic beverage carton featuring a paper-based barrier. This is part of a large-scale technology validation, involving around 25 million packages and currently ongoing in Portugal. Made of approximately 80% paperboard, the package increases the renewable content to 90%.

Mondi has collaborated with Swedish dairy producer Skånemejerier to create a mono-material, polypropylene (PP) based packaging for Hushållsost cheese. The new packaging has a mono-material base web and lidding film which is produced and printed by Mondi before being converted for 1kg and 2kg blocks of cheese by Skånemejerier.

Antalis Packaging’s client, whose meal kits contain all-fresh ingredients, was dissatisfied with their existing packaging for individual hens’ eggs. The die-cut box took over 40 seconds to assemble and pack; with over 8,000 eggs per week sometimes being sent, it was both laborious and costly.

Through a voluntary Green Deal agreement, Valio is committing to reduce the amount of plastic used in its single-use, single-serving packaging by 15% by the end of 2026 compared to 2022. Valio will now package all Valio PROfeel quark products in recyclable paperboard cups.

SN Maschinenbau and SÜDPACK have entered into a developmental partnership to create an innovative overall concept for the in-house production of stand-up pouches with spouts designed for packaging pasty and liquid products.

New study finds that while 77% of European consumers hold a positive view on reusable packaging, 78% express concerns about packaging cleanliness and only 30% fully understand the concept.

Omnia Packaging Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of Italian company Gruppo Sunino, has opened a new production facility in Guelph, Ontario. Omnia received USD3.7m in funding from the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario to help pay for new equipment at the site to manufacture both recyclable plastic and paper trays for the food packaging market.

Fast-food companies are pushing back against European Union proposals to require all restaurants to use reusable materials for serving dine-in customers, warning that early experiences with reuse aren’t promising.

Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, is investing in innovative technologies to increase FunctionalBarrier Paper capacity in order to meet the growing demand for sustainable paper-based packaging solutions.

With the most recent innovation – Koehler NexPure OGR – Koehler Paper is expanding its line-up of environmentally friendly fast-food products.

Tesco is removing packaging from a range of its most popular bakery products in a bid to remove 33 million pieces of plastic each year.

The change marks the first switch away from rustling, shiny plastic wrappers for the brand in 86 years since Harold Mackintosh launched the brand in 1936 – with the intention of keeping 2bn wrappers a year out of landfill.

The takeover of this distributor located near Cognac allows the multinational to target the premium spirits market. Berlin Packaging is growing at high speed. Eight takeovers in France in three years and, in total, no less than twenty-six in Europe since 2016, including ten in 2022.