KINGSEY FALLS, QC , Dec. 4, 2019 - Cascades (TSX: CAS), a leader in eco-friendly recycling, hygiene and packaging solutions, is launching an innovative container for fresh food packaging on the North American market: a cardboard tray certified ¹ according to Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) standards, made from 100% recycled fibres, mainly from post-consumer sources, and which is fully recyclable.

With the increasing global awareness of problems related to plastic waste, consumers and companies are challenging existing conventions and looking for opportunities to replace plastics with renewable and recyclable solutions.

CrownBoard is the new cartonboard brand from BillerudKorsnäs, so strong that it allows for substantial reduction of packaging weight. The launch of CrownBoard gives customers new opportunities to save cost and reduce environmental impact.

Thanks to its omnipresent character as a material, paper continues to play an important role in countless innovations – just as it did in the past.

Smurfit Kappa has launched a portfolio of sustainable packaging solutions for bundling canned and bottled beverages. 

With the rising demand for more sustainable packaging products, Columbia Pulp, North America’s first tree-free paper pulp mill, is using agricultural waste—wheat straw—to fill the gap.

The demand for virgin pulp is on the rise – a trend that’s expected to continue through 2021. Alongside that, there’s an industry-wide shortage of quality sources of recycled fibers, resulting in record high prices for white paper products.

Electric vehicles have been turning the tide in the automotive industry in terms of making cars better for the environment. But Japan’s Ministry of the Environment believed we could do better—and the result is an unprecedented supercar made entirely of wood.

AR Packaging aims to meet the increasing need for replacement of plastic-based cutlery and has teamed up with the food service distributor Bionatic to launch a fibre-based cutlery range.

As part of its ongoing Better Planet Packaging initiative, Smurfit Kappa has collaborated with one of its partners, Mitsubishi HiTec Paper, to create a new type of innovative and recyclable food-safe packaging.

Hormones and other pharmaceuticals ending up in bodies from natural waters are a globally significant environmental problem.

Starting from October 21, 2019 pulp production of Arkhangelsk PPM JSC has switched to utilization of hydrogen peroxide as a bleaching agent, thus displacing sodium hypochlorite used before.

More and more companies are shifting from plastic to paperboard. The Norwegian fruit giant Bama has put all of its efforts into developing modern and smart packaging solutions that meet the tough demands necessary for goods, logistics and consumers. 

(October 17, 2019, ATLANTA) Graphic Packaging International (GPI) has developed KeelClip™, a paperboard packaging solution for cans that offers sustainability advantages and merchandising benefits as compared to other packaging options.

The new design of the beer bottle was developed with Carlsberg’s partners in the Carlsberg Circular Community as well as CP+B Copenhagen and Kilo, a Danish industrial design studio.

On the surface, Karst notebooks look like those of any other luxury paper brand with colorful covers and smooth white pages.

As one of the first companies in its industry, Stora Enso has implemented 5G technology to enable high density (HD) 360° camera solutions in their production environment.

Consumers and brands around the world are looking for more sustainable alternatives to plastic packaging, with easy recyclability being key.

Seven months after large-scale production of the Frugal Cup began, we have extended our sustainable offering in a move away from conventional polystyrene lids, with the newly available Frugal Lid.

HARTSVILLE, S.C., Sept. 12, 2019 -- Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the most sustainable, diversified global packaging companies, today announced it has been awarded the How2Recycle^®’s (H2R) “Check Locally Recyclable” status for its paper-bottom EcoSeal™ rigid paper container.

Metsä Board's Kyro mill is to begin using artificial intelligence for quality management on its folding boxboard machine. Supplied by Voith, the software uses measurement results related to the quality properties of and the mill's process data.