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PlasticScene is a concise and comprehensive overview of the past month’s news across the plastics packaging value chain

Strength in numbers

What is impossible to do alone, can often be made possible through teamwork. And that spirit of collaboration dominated the news agenda last month, following the announcement of a series of industry-wide joint ventures (JVs) and partnerships. ALPLApharma, a division of ALPLA Group, and Spanish packaging company Inden Pharma were first up in establishing a JV, with the aim of strengthening their respective footprints in...

The whole nine yards

Written on the eve of Super Bowl LVII (57), this month’s PlasticScene pays homage to the American Football calendar’s annual showpiece. Playing a solid possession game were investment firm Energy Capital Partners, which acquired UK integrated waste and recycling company Biffa for £2.1 billion ($2.6bn); Australia’s Close the Loop, which snapped up US-based In-Plas Recycling for $4 million; and TriMas, which saw attractive opportunities with...

Big spenders

The global economy may be perilously close to falling into recession, but for the plastics packaging industry at least, 2023 got off to a...

Unfinished business

For those who celebrate Christmas, December is more a time for removing sticky tape from nicely (or in my case, badly) wrapped presents, but,...

A storm in a reusable cup

The apparent leaking of a revision to EU packaging legislation caused quite a stir last month, with beverage associations voicing their concern at proposed...

Increasing returns

The drive to involve producers in the collection of plastics packaging waste continues to gather momentum, with countries across the world adopting schemes aimed...

Recycling scales up

Fittingly, for the first edition of Eco-plastics in Packaging, last month’s news was dominated by sustainability stories – with a significant number involving recycling...

Projects power on

Far from winding down for the summer, plastics packaging-related businesses have been busy unveiling details of projects and investments across the value chain. Leading the...

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