Mondelēz partners Amcor to build innovative recycling facility in Australia

AUSTRALIA – Mondelēz International, an American multinational confectionery, food, beverage, and snack food company, is investing in an advanced recycling pioneer Licella to boost plastic recycling in Australia.  Joining the maker of Oreo and Milka brands is Australian packaging manufacturer Amcor which is also pumping an undisclosed sum into the recycling company. According to a statement from Mondelēz, Licella will…

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Alapala’s Depart partners with HBTS to expand vertical packaging solutions in Africa and Asia

TURKEY – Depart, Alapala Holding’s group company for milling spare part sales and after-sales services has partnered with Italian HBTS Packaging to expand its solutions to include vertical packaging. Under the agreement, Depart will manage the sales and marketing of HBTS’s vertical packaging machines in all of Africa, the Far East, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The horizontal/flow-back packaging…

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Puratos pledges to switch to 100% recycled packaging in sustainability drive

BELGIUM – Puratos Group, a Belgium-based ingredient company that supplies bakers, patissiers and chocolatiers, has announced that it is switching to more sustainable packaging in a sustainability drive. The company said it is making changes that mean all its packaging will become 100% recycle-ready, with some packaging getting additional improvements such as paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)…

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