VTT has developed a fully recyclable coating for food

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an environmentally-friendly packaging coating solution. Especially suitable for food and pharmaceutical packaging, the coating offers a new method for manufacturing fully recyclable, thin, light and air-tight packaging materials.

The role of packaging in the life cycle of a chocolate bar

Were you to ask a consumer in a retail outlet what are the major contributors to creating an adverse environmental impact one of the first answers will be packaging.

This will be true even if applied to a bar of chocolate. But nothing could be further from the truth. A recent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), undertaken by ESU-services on behalf of GDA, the German Aluminium Association, in cooperation with EAFA, shows that the contribution of alufoil packaging in conjunction with a paper sleeve to the environmental footprint of chocolate is small. The objective was to investigate the life cycle of chocolate wrapped in aluminium foil and paper.

Sweet packages

Very interesting the trends for packaging showed at ProSweets Cologne. Buyers ask for: shorter changeover times to ensure greater flexibility when changing products. This trend also is having an impact on suppliers of packaging equipment and packaging materials. Here too there is a growing demand for faster product changeovers and above all for more complex packages.