Innovations & New Products

FRANCE – The beauty and skincare brand, L’Occitane, has collaborated with Albéa to revamp the packaging of its 30ml iconic hand cream collection starting with…

UK – Xampla, a spin-off company from the University of Cambridge, has launched its first consumer brand, Morro, with the aim of promoting sustainable packaging.…

DENMARK – Lego, the toy giant maker has abandoned its plans to produce bricks using recycled drinks bottles due to the failure of the new…

GERMANY – Bioeconomy startup Traceless Materials has raised US$38.7 million (€36.6m) to scale production of its eco-friendly plastic alternative. The latest round was led by…

USA – American trade association the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) has announced a new lease model to finance a robot that can sort single-stream recyclables.…

BELGIUM – Coca-Cola’s EMEA R&D Center in Brussels has announced a partnership with Blue Ocean Closures, a start-up with a global mission to reduce plastic…

GHANA – Ghana in collaboration with IIASA researchers, has adopted a citizen science approach to address the problem of plastic pollution in marine environments. By…

FINLAND – UPM Specialty Papers, a division of UPM has developed two certified industrially and home compostable label face papers in a bid to meet…

UK – British fiber-based packaging supplier DS Smith has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to expedite innovation, advance efficiencies, and…

INDIA – Waster traceability software, Satma CE has entered into a partnership with refillable product solutions provider Refillable to revolutionize inventory and refill management. The…