Category: News & Updates

Rectangular bottle is fully recyclable and allows for customized branding on all four sides. Global sustainable packaging leader Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY) has launched a customizable, rectangular Domino bottle available with up to 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic for the beauty, home, and personal care markets. The 250ml Domino bottle includes a 75-millimetre-wide front face and customizable side panels. This allows…

Energy giant ExxonMobil has collaborated with the value chain (including Henkel) to develop a high-barrier, recyclable MDO-PE//PE laminate to address demands for recyclable packaging. The new solution is said to meet functional requirements for a wide range of food packaging applications, from dry goods to liquids, and offer ‘stiffness and clarity’. The materials include: MDO-PE…

US – BlueTriton Brands, an American beverage company, has unveiled its latest initiative to promote sustainability and environmental stewardship: introducing new aluminum bottle packaging.   The company’s iconic brands, including Poland Spring, Deer Park, Ice Mountain, Arrowhead, and Pure Life, will spearhead this transition to more eco-friendly packaging options.  In collaboration with 1% for the…

Tesco plans to save nearly a million stickers and up to 25 million plastic trays in its avocado product lines by laser etching product information directly onto the fruit and trialling a recyclable cardboard container. Barcode stickers will be removed from Tesco’s loose, extra-large avocados. Instead, Westfalia Fruit’s technology will remove a small section of the top…

Swedish greentech company Lignin Industries AB has announced the mass commercialisation of its Renol technology, a bio-based material developed from lignin, often found in trees. Lignin Industries claims it has developed a way to end reliance on fossil fuel-based plastics by transforming lignin, an organic material, into ‘renewable, circular’ bioplastics. Apparently, Lignin is an organic polymer most…

Coley Porter Bell has redesigned packs for French fruit drink brand Tropico, owned by The Coca-Cola Company. The new visual identity aims to expand Tropico’s appeal to a Gen Z audience and is being launched in the run-up to the Paris Summer Olympics. The updated brand identity features a suite of bespoke fruit illustrations to…

Rowse Honey has relaunched the limited-edition ‘Hot Honey’, available now exclusively at Waitrose, in-store or online. The packaging design conforms to the standard range of Rowse Honey, with its distinct jaggered plastic bottle. Libby Nicholson, Brand Manager for Rowse Honey, says: “As honey lovers and culinary innovators, we’re hugely excited to bring back our much-loved…

Skincare brand E45 has worked with Elmwood to unveil new packaging designs to modernise its distinctive heritage. The new design features a refined brand mark, an updated colour palette, new iconography, pack visuals and a new pattern library. These appear alongside newly created photography principles, intended to champion the many unique types of consumer skin…

Gut health expert brand Chuckling Goat has partnered with packaging design agency Burgopak to create a microbiome test kit, in which the packaging is an integral part of the product. The packaging is designed to make the test process straightforward to do at home and has everything clearly laid out, as part of a three…