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It is one of the most coveted industry awards in the field of packaging: the WorldStar Award of the World Packaging Organisation (WPO). In 2017 the award presented annually will be extended to include another category. The new “SAVE FOOD Packaging Award” is designed to recognise packaging solutions that can help to reduce food loss and waste. Those eligible are sustainable concepts with the lowest use of resources possible.

At the upcoming PrintPack show, QuadTech will present its extensive portfolio of print quality and waste saving solutions in Hall 14, Stand G43. Among the featured solutions will be four new technologies introduced at drupa 2016, which promise consistently high color quality, reduced production time, waste reduction and dramatically lowered consumable costs.

Although admitting to some uncertainty about sustainability in the year ahead, Organic Monitor (www.organicmonitor.com) has given its predictions for sustainable foods in 2017.

According to a new 2015 study on the usage and recycling rates of PET beverage bottles in Germany, bottle deposits have ensured consistently high recycling rates for PET bottles in Germany. PET bottles are recycled at about 93.5%, while one-way deposit PET bottles have reached a whole 97.9%. The industry is also continuing on its aim of supplying more recycled PET into the materials cycle, with the average share of recycled PET in bottle production increasing compared to 2013 despite the adverse price development in recycled compared to virgin PET. The recycling process largely takes place in Germany.

manroland web systems is all geared up to set a new benchmark for webfed printing presses featuring the latest in automation and technology for the growing packaging and printing industry. Depending on applications ranging from board to foil printing, the company has an optimized arrangement of presses with offset, flexo and gravure printing units in hybrid configuration. The established PECOM-X drive, operation and workflow management system is the basis for combining various components from manroland web systems to form a one-system solution.