Sustainable Packaging Africa News - week 11

Fair Cape Diaries installs SIG’s CFA 812 filling machine to optimize its operations

SOUTH AFRICA –?Fair Cape Dairies has added CFA 812 filling machine from aseptic carton supplier SIG to expand its flexibility with regard to packaging formats and volumes?.?. .?More

Egypt secures US$9.13M?to manage electronic and hospital waste

EGYPT –?Egypt’s Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, announced a US$9.13 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to scale up the Greater Cairo Air Pollution and Climate Change Management Project?.?. .More

Macfarlane Group?acquires?protective packaging supplier Suttons

UK –?Macfarlane Group has completed the acquisition of Suttons Performance Packaging for a maximum cash consideration of ￡9.0 million (US$10.75m)?. . .?More

Berry launches?digital child-resistant closure to address medication adherence

USA –?Berry Global has introduced a child-resistant closure, Digi-Cap that has been designed to improve medication adherence by integrating digital technology?. .?.?More

European tube market grew 2% in 2022 as price fears ease, ETMA reports

EUROPE –?The European Tube Manufacturers Association (ETMA) has reported that the tube market grew by 2% in 2022 attributed to growth in tube deliveries?. . .?More

Novelis opens beverage packaging solution center in Brazil

BRAZIL – US-based aluminum packaging provider Novelis has opened a customer solution center (CSC)?for the beverage packaging market in S?o José dos Campos, Brazil ...More

Sonoco closes Hutchinson paper mill laying off 116 employees

USA –?Sustainable packaging provider Sonoco is permanently closing its Hutchinson Paper Mill, affecting 116 employees who were informed of the closure on 6th March.?.?. .?More

Biffa to inject ￡6M into Motherwell facility as part of DRS program

SCOTLAND –?Biffa has announced plans to invest up to ￡6 million (US$7.10m) in the Motherwell facility, forming part of a network of facilities that will sort and bale materials collected via the deposit return scheme (DRS)?. . .?More

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?.?. .?More

ALBA partners VietCycle to build plastic recycling plant in Vietnam

VIETNAM –?ALBA Group Asia has signed a cooperation agreement with the plastic recycling company VietCycle to jointly construct a food-grade PET/HDPE plastic recycling plant in Vietnam?.?. .More