Packaging Europe

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Packaging EuropeFinalist Interview: Z1RO’s moulded fibre packaging from non-wood biomass Z1RO has been nominated as a finalist in the Start-Up New Materials category of the 2026 Sustainability Awards.

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Packaging EuropeRecycled PET bottle and 50% PCR stretch sleeve target circularity OPACKGROUP and Morssinkhof-Rymoplast have applied a 50%+ post-consumer recycled stretch sleeve to a recycled PET bottle and cap in a bid to achieve full circularity.

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Packaging EuropeEdible seaweed ginger shot pods piloted by Innocent Drinks and Notpla Innocent Drinks is distributing ginger shots in Notpla ’s edible, biodegradable packaging pods made from seaweed, replacing the traditional plastic bottle.

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Packaging EuropeEnviu’s reusable wine bottles sold in Netherlands supermarkets Non-profit organization Enviu has announced that its Universal Reusable Wine Bottle will be available in every Ekoplaza store in the Netherlands starting this month, designed to enable different wine…

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Packaging EuropeThe story behind FOLI’s viral interlocking bottles The interlocking packaging for FOLI’s high-end range of oil and dressings has been going viral on social media over the past few months.

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Packaging EuropePaper ice bucket developed by EcoSource, REEL and Transcend EcoSource , REEL and Transcend have collaborated to create REELchilla, a paper ice bucket designed to challenge conventional plastic ice buckets while delivering ‘premium’ presentation and a…

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Packaging EuropePackaging design and sustainability with Now New Next Less than two weeks away from Packaging Europe’s Sustainable Packaging Summit, Elisabeth Skoda sits down with brand and packaging design agency Now New Next ’s Emmilie Kuks to discuss how the right…

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Packaging EuropeFrom breakthrough to buy-in: how packaging start-ups design for adoption From biodegradability to commercial viability, how are emerging materials innovators tackling performance, recyclability, industrial compatibility and cost?

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo