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Image: Messe Düsseldorf/ctillmann

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26/02/2025

Fast deliveries with Prime Air drones and protective boxes

The delivery of the future! Amazon Prime Air's drones are revolutionizing delivery. Find out more about the partnership with CP Cases Ltd.
laboratory work in the Master's programme

Image: Campus Wien / private (students)

30/01/2025

Master's Program for Sustainable Packaging Technologies: The Experts of Tomorrow
At the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, professionals are being trained to shape the future of the packaging industry. The Master's programme in Packaging Technology and Sustainability prepares students for future-oriented solutions through practical projects such as recycling analysis and material testing. Graduates actively drive innovation and sustainability in the industry.
SnapSlide: Pouring hands

Image: SnapSlide LLC

09/12/2024

New SnapSlide closure offers accessible child-resistant packaging
Several years ago Rocky Batzel wanted to find a better solution to help his grandmother open and close child-resistant packaging caps on her pill bottles. His journey led him to start SnapSlide LLC, which has developed a new type of no-torque, child-resistant (CR) closure that enables single-handed opening of pharmaceutical bottles. The product is now going commercial.
Meeting about product packaging

Image: PAXLY GmbH

15/11/2024

A perfect match – algorithm shows manufacturers the most efficient packaging solution
Demand for greater efficiency and sustainability in the supply chain always entails the issue of ideal solutions for space-saving packaging. The packaging specialist paxly.ai provides a powerful software tool that compares the extensive requirements of a company in need of packaging with the performance data of packaging producers. If there is a match, the seekers and providers come together.
Made possible by MADDOX: the assistance system at work

Image: Peerox

14/10/2024

Our digital colleague will sort it out: self-learning assistance systems in the packaging industry
AI-based assistance systems are highly popular. These digital colleagues help to get a better, faster and more efficient handle on disruptions, downtimes, capacity overloads and production of rejects in manufacturing. Maddox, developed by Dresden-based Peerox GmbH, is a self-learning assistance system that is now being used in a number of packaging companies.
Sway Co-founders at a seaweed farm

Image: Alex Krowiak

16/04/2024

Seaweed-based packaging gaining traction as a plastic alternative
Notpla Ltd. has landed a big contract with a UK sports-venue operator, while California startup Sway has launched a new seaweed-based biopolymer and secured major new funding. Both have won awards and are helping to commercialize seaweed-based packaging.
Sorting belt with packaging waste inside a sorting plant

Image: Julia Paul

16/04/2024

Artificial intelligence improves recycling
A green Europe is unthinkable without a working circular economy. For this to happen, waste sorting and recycling processes need to improve in order to obtain more recyclates for reuse. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used in sorting and recycling today, but new AI developments are currently revolutionising the industry.

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Three women hold picture frames in their hands

Image: Pro Carton

17/01/2024

Urgent need for young talent
There is an urgent need for young, skilled workers everywhere, and the packaging industry is no exception. Next-generation workers often pursue unconventional approaches with bold new ideas, regardless of whether they have studied packaging technology or design at European universities or completed an industry apprenticeship.
Foam from waste cardboard

Image: Beijing Key Laboratory of Wood Science and Engineering

17/01/2024

Researchers tout sustainable packaging foam made from waste cardboard
Researchers in Beijing have developed an environmentally friendly cushioning and insulating foam made entirely from recycled cardboard that they say offers a sustainable, plastic-free packaging alternative to the shipping industry.
FreeWater offers these 474 ml aluminum bottles as one option

Image: FreeWater

17/10/2023

FREEWATER’S RADICAL, AD-DRIVEN PACKAGING CONCEPT AIMS TO DISRUPT THE INDUSTRY
A Texas startup aims to disrupt the food and beverage industry by turning the marketing of such products on its head. Austin-based FreeWater sells advertising on paper cartons and aluminum bottles of drinking water and then gives away those containers for free, while donation a portion of its proceeds to charity.
Takeaway drink with paper lid

Image: The Paper Lid Company

15/08/2023

Paper lids for less single-use plastic
When the time comes for a hot or cold drink while out and about, many people opt for takeaway beverages in disposable cups. These often come with a plastic lid, resulting in a significant volume of waste. One Finnish start-up is instead using recyclable paperboard lids and has entered into a partnership with Walki.

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