Articles on packaging

Do you manufacture packaging or use packaging for your products? If so, you are affected by the EU PPWR regulation. Packaging researcher Ann Lorentzon explains what applies and offers tips on how to turn strict regulations into new business opportunities.

Plastic can be highly damaging to the environment thus replacing it with entirely new bio-based materials could be one solution to reducing environmental impact. In the future, fibre-based foam could be used in everything from packaging and furniture to cars and houses.

Plastic becomes new plastic, which becomes new plastic, which becomes new plastic, and on it goes. Using materials in a cycle is important for us to achieve the national environmental and climate goals and the global goals in the 2030 Agenda. The speciality chemicals group Perstorp is now participa…

We need to use fewer plastic products – not least when it comes to single-use items. Both for environmental reasons as well as for a new EU directive. Part of the solution is spelled agricultural waste products, which can be given new life as both functional and inexpensive disposables and packagin…