Arpanon Beverage Company partners with packaging leader Sidel to launch a 9-gram ultra-lightweight 600ml PET bottle for its SENDAI brand. The solution cuts raw plastic by 30%, halves energy consumption, and slashes waste by five-fold without sacrificing bottle strength.
Sidel will showcase its packaging line innovations, laser preform heating, and predictive digital tools at Allpack Indonesia 2026.
Indorama Ventures and REBHAN have launched a clear, thick-wall PET bottle platform that gives beauty brands a glass-like look with lighter, shatter-resistant performance and recycled-feedstock options.
Sukano has reserved access to future supplies of Avantium’s plant-based releaf polymer, moving the companies’ PEF collaboration closer to possible commercial deployment.
APR Bharat says its 15-day recycling campaign collected more than 50,000 PET bottles while taking its circular-economy message to nearly one million people.
A European industrial-scale trial has shown that several bio-based packaging plastics can be separated from mixed household waste. Strong results for rigid items offer a promising route to recycling, although film recovery remains a significant challenge.
Stoney clear bottles are replacing the brand’s familiar brown PET packaging in South Africa, starting with the 2.25-litre format.
More than 300 packaging specialists from 66 countries gathered at SACMI in Imola to examine high-speed cap production, automated quality control, digital services and emerging materials for rigid packaging.
PHA and PEF bioplastics are approaching a decisive commercial phase, offering different routes to lower-impact packaging, textiles and specialist materials.
