Avoiding plastic waste is an important piece of the packaging sustainability puzzle. In our latest podcast interview with Dr. Alexander von Niessen, Managing Partner and CEO at Chocal Sustainable Packaging, we hear how the company addresses ...

PulPac and PA Consulting have set up a partnership to create the “world’s first” Dry Molded Fiber bottle under the umbrella of the Bottle Collective. PulPac’s Sanna Fager and PA Consulting’s Tony Perrotta discuss the technology, the collaborati...

What are the challenges and possibilities around switching to recyclable packaging materials particularly in the pharmaceutical and food space? Jonathan Cage, Director for Business Development at ICPG, a division of Impact Plastics, speaks t...

Ton Knipscheer of the European Co-Packers Association talks to Tim Sykes about the reasons why contract manufacturing is more and more central to the strategies of not just retailer's private label products, but also to delivering the innovatio...

NVC's Michael Nieuwesteeg and Tim Sykes discuss the importance of open and rigorous communication in the context of the Gouden Noot competition, as well as how packaging approaches both the wide possibilities and the risks associated with Artif...

Elvire Regnier, founder of the Regenerative-Advisory, "Shaping the future of Procurement and Sales through Regenerative Operating Models" chats with Libby Munford, Editor, ahead of speaking at the Sustainable Packaging Summit in a key panel.

Our first every crossover podcast, collaborating with North America's leading packaging podcast Cory Connors, who interviews our very own Tim Sykes, along with Olga Kachook and Tom Pollock, as we discuss the co-located events the Sustainable Pa...

What are the benefits of using plant fibre-based packaging, what have some of the recent innovations been, and what is the potential for fibre-based packaging beyond wood? Howard Ma, vice president of Yuto Group and Yutoeco discusses this and m...

As one of the world’s biggest recyclers by volume, Gemini Corporation has been working to establish scrap materials as a valuable, traceable resource for the past 35 years. Emma Liggins sits down with Chief Sustainability and Strategy Officer V...

The importance of sustainability is steadily growing, especially in in Europe, due to regulations like the European Commission’s CSRD-based ESRS. Mitja Brgant, Director of European Operations at sustainability analytics specialist Trayak talks ...

The e-commerce sector is steadily growing. Adhesive tape producer monta’s Sylvia di Felice discusses e-commerce market conditions, challenges, the opportunities that come from choosing the right adhesive tapes, reducing CO2 emissions, recycl...

What are the key trends in the flexible packaging market right now? How does a machinery manufacturer tackle the sustainability demands on flexible packaging such as design for recycling and novel materials? How does collaboration help tackl...

Libby Munford chats with Daniel Friedmann, who has recently been announced as Solutum's Corporate Director and Board Member. Friedmann has been tasked with global scaling of company’s sustainable material with holistic End-of-Life ...

What are the fashion and textiles industry's biggest problems when it comes to sustainable packaging and where do the solutions lie? To help answer these questions, Victoria Hattersley spoke with Georgia Parker, Innovation Director at

Libby Munford chats with Marius Tent, Director & founder, ViaPackaging; Benoit Piette, Founder - Packaging Ecodesign and Circularity Consultant, Bluenote Pack; and Thibaut Mirieu de Labarre, Founder, InspireCo - to find out why they have un...

Like much of our audience, Packaging Europe has been following the ongoing news around Suzano’s...

“Plastic is a problem when you make it a problem.” Dana Mosora and Hilda Addah set up ASASE Foundation to enable Ghanaian women entrepreneurs to cash in on the plastic waste in the country’s capital Accra to benefit their own communiti...

What really happens at the Global Plastics Treaty INC negotiations, how did the most recent INC-4 unfold and what work is left to do before INC-5 in Busan? Victoria Hattersley finds out from Magnus Løvold of the ...

On the eve of drupa 2024, HP's Eli Mahal discusses the landscape around print for packaging and labels, why advances in speed and productivity means digital print is poised to go mainstream, how HP is addressing packaging's sustainability deman...

Women are a prominent presence in the packaging industry, but face challenges in what sometimes still is a male-dominated sector. Elisabeth Skoda speaks with two women who have made their mark on the industry – Nerida Kelton, Vice President Sus...

Libby Munford catches up with Koon-Yang Lee, Professor of Polymer Engineering at Imperial College London and Lead of the Future Materials Group - a  dynamic research group consisting of scientists and engineers proficient in the developmen...

Why can it be so difficult to scale up some of the more novel or ‘niche’ feedstocks for packaging materials, what role can investors play and how can startups secure this investment? Victoria Hattersley explored these questions with Fredric Pet...

“I believe that the word ocean plastic is an overreach of a statement.” Prevented Ocean Plastic’s founder Raffi Schieir speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about challenges and myths around ocean plastic and explains why prevention through high quality c...

"...The building blocks are moving, all the CPGs are developing this. They might not openly talk about it, but it's definitely happening behind the scenes." Libby Munford chats with CEO and founder of CLUBZERO, Safia Qureshi, to catch ...

Tuomas Mustonen from Paptic and Fredric Petit from Emerald's sustainable packaging fund reflect on the long journey of a renewable flexible packaging start-up from spin-out to a fast growing business with a mix of VC and corporate backers, what...