Packaging can make or break a product. From the primary packaging that wraps your product to the secondary packaging that keeps it safe in shipping, quality paper-based packaging can both entice and ...

Processing wood into paper requires a lot of water, energy, and chemicals. Creapaper mixes in grass, reducing the need for trees—and all the resources necessary to process them. As the backlash ...

Paper is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, but how is it made, and where did it originate? Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word "paper ...

Like many other major plastics applications, plastics use in flexible packaging has come under deep scrutiny in recent years as sustainability concerns rise and spread globally. Paper is often lauded ...

Amazon’s new frozen food packaging is made from recycled paper, and designed to be recycled in curbside bins. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s a tough assignment, for sure, but for the past few ...

Paper packaging, for some items, has always existed, but as many industries engage in a drive towards sustainability, it’s proliferating. From replacing cans with cartons, to replacing foil sweet ...

Six empty brown paper fry boats arranged next to each other in a grid formation. Credit: William Ludwig/C&EN/Getty In the 1960s, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the company that popularized ...

Coveris’ pre-made paper block bottom bags will serve as secondary packaging for pladis’ confectionery brands in the US.

McDonald’s Corp., Chicago, has announced that the company has almost achieved its goal of sourcing all of its paper food packaging in restaurants from recycled or sustainable fiber. The company ...

“Origami wasn’t available at a large scale in packaging applications,” says Jarmo Kouko, a research team leader at VTT, a research and technology company owned by the Finnish government. “I thought it ...

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