Applying AI and automation in recovery of flexible packaging
AMP Robotics (USA, Netherlands, UK)

AMP Vortex™ is the recycling industry’s first artificial intelligence powered automation system for film recovery in recycling facilities.

Refill station for Formil laundry detergent
Lidl, Algramo and Fyllar

Lidl, partnered with Algramo and Fyllar, offer in-store automated refill stations for liquid laundry detergents in smart HDPE bottles.

Mess-free smart refill solution
Fyllar (Netherlands)

Fyllar’s patented technology provides a mess-free smart refill solution thanks to a closed cap with an integrated RFID tag.

IoT platform for supply chain sustainability
Wiliot (Israel, USA)

An ambient IoT connecting everything in the supply chain, through battery-free, stamp-sized connectors that enable products to transmit item-level information.

Label-Free Multipack
Pepsi (China)

Pepsi removed the plastic label from PET bottles in multipacks and eliminated print from the cap, simplifying recycling and reducing the carbon footprint.

Alu-free full barrier for aseptic cartons
SIG (Germany)

The world’s first aluminium-free full barrier packaging material for aseptic cartons, combining a high renewable content, low carbon footprint and full recyclability.

Closed loop recycled paint containers
Berry Global (UK)

Berry addressed the problem of recycling used plastic paint containers through a circular partnership combining recovery and recycling of both paint and packaging.

Air cushions from recycled paper
Flöter and AirWave (Germany)

Flöter and AirWave have developed the PaperWave Box featuring protective paper-based air cushioning for the e-commerce channel.

Applying AI and automation in recovery of flexible packaging
AMP Robotics (USA, Netherlands, UK)

AMP Vortex™ is the recycling industry’s first artificial intelligence powered automation system for film recovery in recycling facilities.

Mono-material Balaton dispensing closure
Kraft Heinz (Netherlands)

Kraft Heinz’s recyclable Balaton closure features an inbuilt product retention system for controlled dosing, which can replace current, non-recyclable silicon valves.

ECOCLIC® Box for liquid laundry capsules
P&G (Beligum)

The new Ariel ECOCLIC® box combines safety, inclusive consumer experience, recyclability and 70% recycled content in a cardboard box replacing a plastic container.

Starch-based biopolymer active, intelligent food packaging
National University of Malaysia and Tunku Abdul Rahman University

This prototype film is an active food packaging which easily indicates food spoilage to consumers via a colour change.

Canupak Carbon-optimised packaging
ALPLA

ALPLA’s prototype Canupak system for beauty care uses pilot moulds to deliver ultra-light design, and featuring fully recyclable bottle and cap, both made of recycled HDPE.

COtooCLEAN
NEXTEK (UK)

COtooCLEAN technology decontaminates post-consumer polyolefin films back to food-grade quality, using super-critical CO2 to remove oils and inks.

Recycle ready yogurt FFS pack
CITEO, Olga, Amcor, Cedap, Plastiques Venthenat and Synerlink (France)

This collaboration produced a mono-polystyrene form-fill-seal yogurt pack for a made-for-recycling packaging solution.

OneBARRIER FibreCycle
Bobst Mex, UPM Specialty Paper and Michelman

High-barrier paper-based structures with a thin primer and top coating on vacuum coated layers, recyclable in existing fibre waste streams.

Breakthrough chemistry process for barrier paper
Cellulotech (Canada, France)

A solvent-free, dry process to provide paper packaging with barriers, using a chemical reaction that attaches bio-based molecules instead of coating.

Gian de Belder
Technical Director, R&D Packaging Sustainability at Procter & Gamble