Packaging
Henkel pioneers digital watermark technology with new Vernel product range
Henkel is one of more than 85 companies and organisations of the new cross-value chain initiative “HolyGrail 2.0”, launched by AIM, the European Brands Association. The goal of the initiative is to assess whether a pioneering digital technology c...
Henkel's Perwoll bottles in Western Europe with 25% recycled plastic
Henkel’s packaging and supply chain team was able to integrate a significant share of recycled PE (25%) in the full range of Perwoll bottles in the Western European market – while at the same time retaining their unique color and ensuring high a...
Henkel introduces recyclable black plastic packaging
Together with its supplier Ampacet, a global provider of masterbatch, Henkel has developed an innovative solution for black plastic packaging that is fully recyclable. The new packaging material uses an alternative carbon-free black color, enabling u...
PLASBLOCK - Solving the problem of mixed waste plastics and polymers on landfill...
We produce waste-based blocks for wood pallets; 100% made of polymer mixed waste and biomass waste. By using resources from landfills directly to logistics value chain, we provide a longer lifespan for wood pallets, as well as better shock absorption...
Versalis and Montello - New polyethylene grades made from recycled packaging
This project aims at producing a range of polyethylene products containing post-consumer plastics for a number of technical applications, including: thin packaging film, drip irrigation pipes, industrial bags and other types of packaging. To truly cl...
KLS PurePrint – Possibly the most sustainable printing company in the world
After many years of steadily declining sales of printed matter, KLS PurePrint chose to change their business model in a more sustainable direction in 2007. Inspired by the UN Sustainability Goals established in 2015, KLS PurePrint incorporated a circ...
Recovered and recycled industrial packaging
The project has been developed with the aim of recovering and recycling industrial polyethylene packaging – such as bags and liners – used for the shipping of Versalis’ products on pallets and by truck/containers. It involves the collec...
Overprint: reuse, reduce and recycle by Rotoprint Sovrastampa srl
Annually, more than 23.750 km of packaging film are rendered obsolete unusable and destined for landfills. Obsolescence is due to consumer demand fluctuation, changes on legislation and human errors in artwork processing. Rotoprint Sovrastampa, based...
LDPE PCR foamed film with post-consumption recycled materia
The efficient use of materials and its reintroduction in the consumption system as new resources through recycling are two of the main pillars of the Circular Economy paradigm. Based on these pillars Ecoembes and The Dow Chemical Company have develop...
Henkel's detergent bottles from recycled high density polyethylene (HDPE)
For the first time, 60,000 bottles of the laundry detergent Perwoll Wool & Delicates were produced with recycled HDPE (high density polyethylene) sourced from packaging household waste in Germany. After a developmental period of two years, toge...
Total creates products with high post-consumer recycled content that match perfo...
Total has launched a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) “Circular Compound” range that contains high levels of post-consumer recyclates for household and industrial liquid applications. The new products perform equally in demanding applications to ...
Cradle to cradle - certified print products by Vögeli
Pureprint by Vögeli are offset printed products, designed to be biodegradable. On the basis of the Pureprint components, Vögeli PurePrint offers a wide range of offset printed products such as folders, brochures, notebooks, letter paper, business c...
Total completes successful trials with post-consumer recycled polystyrene
Total has successfully completed an industrial-scale test run of a proprietary recycling process for polystyrene on a European PS production line following a series of pilot stage trials. Post-consumer scrap supplied by recycling companies was transf...