The Coca-Cola Company has announced that Luisa Ortega to become president of the company’s Africa operating unit, overseeing markets across the continent. Ortega currently serves as president of the company’s central zone in Latin America, which includes Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Central America and the Caribbean. Ortega replaces Bruno Pietracci, who has been named …
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Kezad Group, the integrated trade, logistics, and industrial hub of Abu Dhabi, has announced the signing of a 50-year land lease agreement with speciality tissue manufacturer, Star Paper Mill, for the establishment of a new facility to manufacture recycled Kraft Paper Jumbo reels, diversifying the company’s product offering to serve a growing demand for biodegradable …
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Coca-Cola becomes UK’s first beverage brand to pilot NaviLens technology for visually impaired. The beverage company has rolled out NaviLens codes across 24x330ml and 30x330ml packs of its Christmas can multipacks. The new boxes will allow a smartphone to easily detect a unique on-pack code and play back labelling information to shoppers. The …
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UAE-based Beeah Group has partnered with UK’s Chinook Sciences and Japan’s Air Water to produce fuel-cell grade green hydrogen from waste wood and plastic in the Gulf country. The three companies are planning to set up a consortium to build a waste-to-hydrogen plant in Sharjah which will be the first of this kind in …
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In an increased effort to drive collection and recycling of liquid board packaging (LBP) in South Africa, Tetra Pak South Africa to join the PET Recycling Company NPC (PETCO), a well-established Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO). Tetra Pak’s membership commences on 1 January 2023. The decision for Tetra Pak to join PETCO was driven by …
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Alpla has developed a carbon-optimised prototype solution as a showcase for future products with its Canupak beauty care packaging. The ultralight packaging system with a bottle made entirely of recycled HDPE (rHDPE) underscores the company’s global sustainability strategy. Alpla is therefore offering its customers further potential to reduce emissions as well as expertise for …
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Coveris invests over £1.5M to expand its linerless label manufacturing capabilities. With investment in wide web printing presses and site infrastructure developments, Coveris’ dedicated linerless label facility in Spalding, Lincolnshire (UK) expands its production capacity, continues to strive for best-in-class quality print, and aims for improved manufacturing efficiencies to support its sustainability strategy: No Waste. …
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Rebound Plastic Exchange, a UAE-based B2B digital trading platform for recycled plastics has announced its support for the United Kingdom (UK) spur scalable solutions to its ongoing challenges in achieving sustainable waste management for plastics. Having amended its Waste Shipment Regulations in 2021, the UK now adheres to the Basel Convention Amendments, which means …
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Herma has developed a new range of adhesives and corresponding self-adhesive materials. The distinguishing feature of the logistics and other labels produced with the new label stock is that contamination caused by the adhesive during recycling is practically ruled out. With its new adhesives, Herma boasts to be the first company in the industry …
Tetra Pak signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Union Paper Mills (UPM), the UAE’s leading paper recycler, at Gulfood Manufacturing 2022, with the objective to increase the overall collection and recycling of used beverage cartons (UBC). Within the terms of this MOU, Tetra Pak will support UPM with UBC recycling capabilities including the …
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