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For packaging manufacturers, Duni’s quarter captures the tension between sustainable product investment and immediate margin compression driven by elevated freight and operations costs.

Most Kenyan e-waste, despite its estimated value, moves through informal collectors where dismantling and metal recovery lack environmental safeguards and worker protections.

The feedback will contribute to the Article 8 review of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the Strategic Framework on a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy.

According to the firm, EPR rules are driving brand owners to handle packaging waste, generating sustained structural recyclate demand across jurisdictions.

Under the planned regional split, the EMEA company would combine legacy International Paper and DS Smith operations in the region.

While earlier-in-the-year price rises boosted average selling prices for the quarter, King said inflation remained elevated and accelerated past half-year forecasts.

Conveyed to Islamabad Capital Territory officials, the clarification answered enforcement actions starting 12 October, when the CDA verbally ordered PET-packaged product sales stopped, without prior notice or published rules.

With 21 plants in 11 countries and 9B+ tubes produced yearly, the company aims for 60% sustainable tube sales by 2030, working toward a fully sustainable portfolio long-term.

The council brings brand owners, flexible packaging converters, suppliers, and policymakers together for shared learning on the issues shaping packaging innovation, sustainability, and business growth.

A mismatch between printed MRP and shelf prices suggests distributors are passing on costs the manufacturer hasn’t formally built into packaging updates.