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Wu’s new role heading Tetra Pak ANZ will focus on helping customers enhance food safety, reduce environmental footprint, and strengthen food systems through advanced packaging and processing technology.

The paper tray was extensively tested to ensure product protection and shelf life, offering cookie durability during transport and display while reducing virgin plastic use.

Minister Mchengerwa said the government is aligning tax and tariff rules for pharmaceutical raw materials and packaging with EAC and SADC standards, to create a more competitive manufacturing environment.

The starch-based coating makes paper packaging recyclable or compostable while retaining protection, cutting plastic waste and advancing circular economy goals.

The new entity, jointly controlled by Portobello Capital Fondo IV, Cobega, and Sonab, includes Nosoplas, a Spanish-focused rPET resin and preform producer with a smaller EEA footprint.

The collapse comes after more than a year of warnings over plastics recyclers’ finances, with the Australian Council of Recycling calling the sector’s viability “unsustainable.”

Divestment follows Nestlé’s water sale, shedding slow-growth units to protect margins, focus on coffee/pet care/food.

On PET bottles, the sleeve separates from the denser PET to preserve bottle-to-bottle recycling. With HDPE containers, it forms a compatible polyolefin structure.

The results suggest consumers are more willing to recycle when packaging is intuitive and easy to sort.

The LIBS system analyses up to 150 scrap pieces per second, detecting alloying elements like silicon, copper, iron, and magnesium.