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On September 29, 2022, the website of the Jinan Municipal Administration for Market Regulation released the results of the 2022 municipal supervisory spot check on the quality of food-grade paper packaging container products. This spot check covered 15 batches of food-grade paper packaging container products sold by 12 enterprises in the circulation sector citywide, and 10 batches of food-grade paper packaging container products produced by 10 enterprises in the production sector. This spot check was conducted in accordance with GB/T27590-2011 "Paper Cups", GB/T36787-

nstantia Flexibles announced the acquisition of FFP Packaging Solutions, a move that will give it its first consumer packaging plant in the UK, focused on developing recyclable flexible laminate packaging for flow wrap, lidding film and pre-made pouches. FFP Packaging Solutions is...

8,000-ton-per-year degradable plant fiber eco-friendly tableware project advances in an orderly manner. Fighting high temperatures, maintaining progress and pushing forward production. Recently, construction of the 8,000-ton-per-year degradable plant fiber eco-friendly tableware project, located in the Hardware Industrial Park of Qiantan Town, Jiande City, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has been advancing in an orderly manner and is expected to be completed and put into production by the end of November this year. Recently, a reporter walked onto the project construction site and saw that the main steel structure of one factory building has been completed, while construction scaffolding has been erected around the exterior of the other two factory buildings,

China's recycled paper industry is exploring a new path to building a green, low-carbon circular system. On August 17, the 6th China Recycled Paper Industry Conference was held in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Under the framework of the theme "Strengthening the Foundation and Expanding Sources to Build a Green, Low-Carbon Circular System," participants from relevant departments of the national recycled paper industry, industry experts, papermaking enterprises, recycling enterprises, waste paper traders, equipment service providers and others jointly explored new paths for the development of the recycled paper industry. The Resource Comprehensive

Two Jinan associations jointly call for action against excessive product packaging. Recently, the Jinan Consumers Association and the Jinan Food Industry Association jointly issued a five-point initiative to operators across Jinan — "oppose excessive product packaging, practice a simple and moderate philosophy" — aimed at promoting frugality, opposing waste and curbing practices such as excessive packaging of mooncakes. First, consciously practice the concept of green and low-carbon development, "practice economy, oppose waste," build a green development model, encourage green consumption and oppose extravagance

Suzhou Packaging and Printing Market to Hit 100-Billion-Yuan Scale in 2025 As the host city of three editions of the Printing Expo, Suzhou, located in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta printing industry belt, enjoys unique geographical advantages. On this basis, Suzhou's printing industry has consistently implemented the five concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing to drive comprehensive, high-quality development of the sector. Printing is everywhere, and the industry's scale ranks among the top in the country. At present, China's printing industry has gradually taken shape around "green, digital, intelligent

Opposing the single-use plastics ban: plastics manufacturers sue the Canadian government Recently, more than 20 plastics manufacturers joined forces to file a lawsuit, asking the Federal Court of Canada to halt the Canadian government's ban on single-use plastic items. These manufacturers have formed the "Responsible Plastic Use Coalition" (RPUC). This is the second time the coalition has taken on the government's ban on single-use

German supermarket chain Aldi will trial HDPE clear milk bottle caps. Lead-in: Aldi will partner with milk retailer Müller for the trial, which will be rolled out in some of its UK stores later this month. The retailer said the trial will initially apply to UK semi-skimmed standard milk products, which previously used green caps. [Packaging and Printing Industry Network Enterprise Focus] German food supermarket chain Aldi plans to, later this month

Zhejiang Postal Administration Advances Provincewide Green Transformation of Express Packaging Recently, the Zhejiang Provincial Postal Administration convened a provincewide meeting on energy conservation and environmental protection in the postal and express delivery industry and the green transformation of express packaging, in order to ensure the completion of the "9917" project and various tasks including plastic pollution control. The meeting reported on the overall situation in the first half of the year regarding the province's implementation of the "9917" project and plastic pollution control, commented on the distinctive highlights of some enterprises' ecological and environmental protection work, and interpreted the

Packaging paper downturn eases, cultural paper price hikes fail to land, demand still key to paper industry outlook The continuously declining packaging paper market appears to have seen a turnaround since August: not only has the general downward trend in paper prices begun to stabilize, but some paper mills have also issued price increase notices in recent days, though limited by factors such as weak market demand, they can only test the waters with modest increases. On the other hand, with August more than half over, the new round of price increases jointly launched by cultural paper enterprises in early August has ultimately been unable to overcome the weakness of market demand, and mills' order fulfillment has been blocked