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The Caerphilly facility holds strong positions in facestock for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage labels, wet-glue labels for beer bottles, home and personal care labels, and other applications where print quality and premium aesthetics are essential.

The masterbatch enables film thickness reduction of up to 20 percent while retaining tensile, tear and puncture properties, directly reducing material consumption and packaging weight.

PureCycle’s patented dissolution recycling process removes color, odor and contaminants from post-consumer polypropylene to produce recycled resin suitable for demanding applications.

The technology builds on Siegwerk’s earlier Cirkit Greasebar White, extending the Barrier Inks concept to oxygen barrier applications.

Heidelberg’s Print Shop Analytics platform aggregates key metrics including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), productivity, makeready times, and waste, making production performance transparent through customizable dashboards and real-time machine views.

The pack is fitted with the LightWing 30 tethered cap, a hinged closure that can be opened in one step, closed again after use and stays connected to the carton to help prevent litter.

The tags adopt RAIN RFID technology, a passive, battery-free wireless solution that operates without disposable batteries, reducing electronic waste from inventory tracking systems.

Nuon Medical will present these new personal care packaging solutions at Luxe Pack Special Edition in Paris.

The combination of PCG’s sustainable manufacturing infrastructure, solar energy, closed-loop water recycling, closed-loop fibre recycling, with RHE’s patented garment protection solutions creates a vertically integrated platform for luxury fashion brands.

Valmet Packaging and Paper executive vice-president Petri Rasinmäki said that the demand for moulded-fibre packaging solutions was growing and Valmet saw strong opportunities to help customers capture this growth.