Norske Skog Skogn launches food packaging

Halloween is just around the corner, marking for many in the United States the start of a busy holiday season. And the one holiday on every retailer's mind is, of course, Christmas. Christmas spending is an annual opportunity to increase sales and create new customers for your business. As we know, custom packaging is an effective way to achieve brand-loyal customers during this key time period. Custom holiday packaging require businesses to plan ahead during the first half of the year. It’s been a busy year for everyone in retail and, now that fall is already here, ordering custom packaging for the upcoming season might not be possible due to the reality of lead times. Think that means it’s too late to incorporate special holiday packaging for the 2022 season? Think again. Seaman Paper has your business covered with 12 in-stock and ready-to-ship holiday tissue paper designs.

Tetra Pak announces it is ready to deploy its portfolio of tethered cap solutions. The portfolio brings numerous benefits to food and beverage manufacturers and consumers, as the company builds on its vision of the most sustainable food package. These benefits include minimising litter, as the cap will stay attached to the package. The carbon footprint can also be reduced because the company’s tethered caps are planned to become available as a plant-based option, therefore increasing the renewable content of the package. In tandem, the company is accelerating the expansion of its paper straws offering to ensure further renewable and low carbon materials across the range of packaging solutions. The aim of this is to address a broad range of customer sustainability needs without compromising on food safety, while still delivering on the end-user drinking experience. Tetra Pak’s tethered caps and paper straws developments mark the latest additions to its range of responsible end-to-end solutions, allowing manufacturers to achieve their ambitions in three essential areas – food safety, food waste and the environment - simultaneously.

Although Bag-in-Box is already a very sustainable packaging, by enabling considerable plastic and CO2 reduction, Smurfit Kappa is continuing to focus effort on raw material innovations, especially by incorporating recycled or bio-based resins to our taps and bags, where the food safety regulations allow it. One of the main steps of this initiative has been recently achieved with the ISCC PLUS certification. The Vitop facility in Alessandria, Italy, that produces the best-selling Vitop® original taps for Bag-in-Box is proud to be the first plant in the Bag-in-Box industry to be ISCC Plus certified. The certification recognises that Vitop’s industrial processes and standards comply with the chain of custody of these bio-based and recycled resins. ISCC is a globally applicable sustainability certification system and covers all sustainable feedstocks, including bio-based and recycled resins and plastic packaging.