Fruit packaging as Advent calendar
Elbe-Obst offers an original upcycling of apple cartons: These are now available with Advent calendar. Every day, consumers have the chance to win a new prize – from toys to Apple products.
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Inspiration
Ruinart in “Second Skin“
The champagne producer Maison Ruinart, which belongs to the luxury goods group LVMH, is drawing attention to itself with a new outer packaging for champagne. A “second skin” made of recyclable material preserves the emblematic silhouette of the bottles.
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Sealed instead of Just Wrapped Up
With FreshPack, Alpma has launched a new solution for packaging butter. The Molkerei Weihenstephan has already been convinced by the packaging. And refers not only to product protection but also to a fresher taste.
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Biodegradable Spirits Bottle
Bacardi wants to swap crude oil for seed oil as the starting material for bottles and thus develop a 100 percent biodegradable spirit bottle. This bottle is expected to hit the shelves by 2023 and then replace around 80 million plastic bottles.
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Foils as Fertilizer
Car manufacturer Skoda uses a new packaging concept for vehicle parts at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav: Biodegradable films replace the plastic films previously used. After use, the packaging material is composted and used as fertilizer, for example.
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38 Winners of the German Packaging Award 2020
This time, solutions in the area of sustainability were among the main focuses of the entries in the competition organized by the German Packaging Institute. For the first time, however, ideas relating to digitization were also honored in a separate competition category.
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Large Brewers Set the Signal for Reusable
In order to stabilise and promote the sustainable reusable cycle in Germany, four major German brewers are founding the GeMeMa Gesellschaft für Mehrwegmanagement. The initiators emphasize that their bottle pool should also be open to third parties.
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Sustainability is the Dominant Subject in Tube Design
With the Canesten tube from Bayer and the Farfalla hair care tube, Hoffmann Neopac has supplied two “Tubes of the Year”. In the case of aluminium tubes, the award, which is presented by the European Tube Manufacturers Association, went to a tube for jam and one for hand cream.
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Think Globally, Act Locally
In the end, Unilever’s recycled material will be used to produce a detergent bottle from 100 percent recycled plastic: an initiative unites five partners in Hamburg and shows how a recycling cycle can function regionally.
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High Quality Cosmetics in Luxurious Packaging
The Polish premium brand Dr. Irena Eris needed secondary product packaging for two facial care lines. These should reflect the highest quality level. A special cellulose cardboard from Sappi now expresses the brand’s claim.
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