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Metsä Group is investing €25 million in a new Muoto fibre packaging production line in Finland, while abandoning plans for its Kuura textile fibre mill as changing market conditions reshape …

New data from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre shows that plastic was the only major packaging material to grow between 2011 and 2025. The findings reveal a difficult reality: …

The European Commission has published an extensive set of answers to the questions raised by companies and national authorities since the adoption of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. The …

As brands continue to move away from conventional plastic packaging, paper and fibre-based alternatives are becoming increasingly relevant across cosmetics and healthcare. But the transition is not without technical challenges. …

As regulation becomes more demanding across the healthcare sector, the ability to validate materials through accredited testing is becoming a strategic requirement, not simply a technical step. This is particularly …

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, better known as PPWR, is one of the most ambitious regulatory shifts ever introduced for the European packaging industry. Its direction is clear: less …

While regulatory attention often focuses on packaging placed on the market, the transition towards circularity also involves the waste streams generated within industrial processes. Some of these materials, including technical …

As brands prepare for stricter packaging rules and growing demand for recyclable formats, Sonoco presents a new set of circular packaging innovations, with a focus on metal and paper-based solutions …

At first glance, New York’s latest packaging EPR setback seems difficult to explain. Across the United States, extended producer responsibility (EPR) is steadily moving from legislation to implementation. States such …

A Dutch project has successfully developed home-compostable coffee capsules compatible with Nespresso-style systems, but the solution is unlikely to reach commercialization. The Clean Cups project, involving Dutch companies including Euro …