Knack Packaging, which makes printed and laminated woven polypropylene packaging, reported a 25% rise in September quarter net profit to ₹25 crore as revenue surged 53% to ₹295 crore. It blamed crude-driven polymer prices and Red Sea freight for cost pressure, and price revisions should show from Q3.
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India's flexible packaging film makers should grow revenue 16 to 18% this fiscal on better realisations, recovering exports and a healthier demand-supply balance, Crisil projects. Margins may expand too. Limited capacity additions and an 8% net capacity cut after a major fire helped end a long oversupply.
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Sonoco reported a third-quarter net loss of $732 million after an $829 million non-cash goodwill impairment, mostly for Consumer Packaging operations in EMEA and Asia-Pacific. Net sales fell 4.2% to $2.042 billion, largely because of the ThermoSafe divestiture, and adjusted EBITDA slipped to $352 million.
Read more at papnews.com →Kanpur Plastipack reported second-quarter revenue from operations of ₹2.2 billion, up about 35.8% from ₹1.62 billion a year earlier, driven by higher volumes across its flexible industrial packaging operations. The bags, it seems, are carrying the numbers.
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A team at PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur's flexible packaging unit developed fixes for material thickness issues and roll instability, cutting the sorting rate on noodle packaging film from 41% to 28%. The improvements included auxiliary slitting tools, tighter thickness standards and Internet of Things monitoring of machines.
Read more at jurnalpost.com →United Caps is offering carton packaging closures, such as its 23 H-PAK, that work with legacy and alternative complexes and run on existing tethered and non-tethered capping lines without machine changes. The pitch is that buyers can treat the cap as a separate sourcing decision. The cap has gone independent.
Read more at spnews.com →Competek has introduced Flex Mould, a universal blow mould with an interface that transfers between multiple platforms, reducing the need for machine-specific tooling. It promises faster, tool-free format changeovers, and the company says one mould across several machines can also cut the number of moulds a plant keeps.
Read more at packagingeurope.com →Ravenwood Packaging helped UK fresh produce business Minor, Weir and Willis replace non-recyclable pre-printed flow wrap on its avocado twin pack with a linerless fruit lid, applied on Ravenwood's Nobac 5000L. The format was picked for recyclability and lower plastic use, and took around six months from concept.
Read more at foodprocessing.com.au →A Nature study linking microplastics to free radical damage was widely reported as alarming, PlasticsToday notes, but it argues the work may be a breakthrough towards prevention and understanding. Only the site's summary was available to us, since the full piece sits behind a browser check.
Read more at plasticstoday.com →Currier has rebranded as Alentra, PlasticsToday reports, reflecting its growth into a full-service contract development and manufacturing organisation offering design, manufacturing and assembly. Only the summary was available to us. New name, same factory floor, presumably with new signage.
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India's Directorate General of Trade Remedies has recommended provisional countervailing duties of $83.72 to $136.25 a tonne on PVC suspension resin imports from China, after preliminary findings that subsidised imports injured domestic producers. Domestic PVC resin stands at INR 105 a kg ex-Mumbai, BigMint reports.
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India's polymer market firmed selectively on 26 October, with polyethylene film grades leading gains across all three key markets while import offers at CFR Mundra held steady, BigMint reports. Producers raised select HDPE grades from 27 October on high feedstock costs, but post-festive buyer resistance capped wider increases.
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A team led by Xuefeng Jiang at East China Normal University, with Hainan University's Yujie Song, converted polystyrene into high-purity benzoic acid at room temperature and ambient pressure under visible light. Their carbon nitride photocatalyst gets more active the longer it runs, the CCS Chemistry paper says.
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Researchers writing in Communications Sustainability tested what happens when cellulose contamination stays in recycled PET, processing it under tightly controlled conditions into contamination-tolerant composites with cellulose-rich waste. The idea is to skip removing every trace of paper. Recycling's oldest chore may get shorter.
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Sandia National Laboratories dissolve pDCPD composites using an environmentally friendly solvent and a ruthenium-based catalyst, leaving a powder reusable in new plastics. Carbon and glass reinforcing fibres come out in pristine form, avoiding the waste of incineration.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →A University of Tokyo team with JAMSTEC and Gunma University mixed trace natural enzymes into compostable polyester films during processing. After five months at 757 metres, the enzyme films were almost gone while identical films without enzymes lost at most 3.4% of their weight, a Nature paper reports.
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At Bhopal's Kachra Cafe, launched with the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, residents swap old newspapers, plastic packets, cardboard and other recyclables for food, drinks and everyday essentials. The idea is to reward segregation. The cafe has sent more than 45 tonnes of waste for recycling in eight months.
Read more at Mint →Bisleri International has signed a Letter of Association with Maharaja's College and Yuvaraja College of the University of Mysore under its Bottles for Change initiative. The partnership aims to promote responsible plastic waste management, source segregation and recycling across both campuses by engaging students.
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Ferozepur's Municipal Council has collected 700 kg of recyclables for its RRR Centre through a 30-day Garbage-Free Festival campaign launched on 23 October, with a movable Material Recovery Van picking up from doorsteps. Steel utensils replaced single-use items at some events. Festive waste has met its match.
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Tinna Rubber and Infrastructure grew tyre processing volumes in H1 FY27 as crushing capacity expanded, began commercial sales from a pyrolysis oil facility at Varale and lined up recovered carbon black for the second half. Plastic recycling has emerged as a fast-growing new vertical, Kalkine reports.
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Scotland's household recycling rate fell from 44.3% to 42.8% in 2025, SEPA figures show, while household waste sent for incineration rose 5.7% and landfill fell another 10.3%. Households generated 2.31 million tonnes. The move away from landfill has not been matched by recycling progress.
Read more at circularonline.co.uk →A CIWM expert group report, Can UK MRFs Survive Packaging Reform?, says sorting facilities could lose valuable material while still bearing costs for drinks containers collected outside the deposit return scheme. The DRS launches on 1 October 2027 in England and Northern Ireland.
Read more at circularonline.co.uk →Viridor's FY26 ESG report says it diverted more than 3.5 million tonnes of non-recycled waste from landfill, equivalent to the residual waste of over 16 million people. It generated a record 2.5 million MWh of power and supplied low-carbon heat to the Cardiff Heat Network for the first time.
Read more at polymerupdate.com →Tomra, which makes sorting equipment and reverse vending machines, says it has seen strong sales growth in the reverse vending sector this year, Recycling Today reports. Only the summary was available to us. Bottles, it appears, are increasingly being returned to sender.
Read more at recyclingtoday.com →The little triangle of arrows on plastic containers can carry a Resin Identification Code from one to seven, HuffPost UK explains, hinting at how easy the item is to recycle. Code 1 is PET, widely recycled, and 2 is HDPE, used for milk bottles.
Read more at huffingtonpost.co.uk →Crisp packets, chocolate wrappers and similar soft plastics cannot go into UK plastic waste collections, despite being plastic, says Ashley, a waste specialist with 13 years in the sector who posts as @theno.1binman. Such items are among the most common reasons bins get refused. The packet stays in the cupboard.
Read more at aol.co.uk →Ontario's tyre recycling system, like its paper and packaging recycling, runs under producer responsibility, Pulp and Paper Canada notes. Since 2019 individual producers collect and recycle used tyres themselves or through PROs, and changes in January 2025 altered how performance is measured.
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Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Anand Bardhan chaired a State-Level Implementation and Monitoring Committee meeting on the revised Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, and Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2026. He directed officials to prepare a practical action plan, including bylaws and regulations, for compliance in urban and rural areas.
Read more at garhwalpost.in →Ludhiana's Public Action Committee has served a legal notice on the Chief Secretary, Punjab, the PPCB, the Municipal Corporation and GLADA over the open sale and use of prohibited single-use plastic, alleging violations of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. It follows a state-level event at PAU grounds.
Read more at The Tribune →A study in Discover Environment reports microplastics in the Uhal river, which rises in the Himalayas, raising concern in Chhota Bhanghal in Kangra and the adjoining Barot valley in Mandi. With no proper waste management system, residents resort to openly burning plastic, as tourist arrivals rise.
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Roadside garbage, clogged drains and plastic waste in water bodies continue to mark Guwahati's civic challenges, The Sentinel reports. Residents complain about inadequate services, while the Guwahati Municipal Corporation stresses public participation and civic sense. Accountability, the report says, remains central.
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Nagpur civic body's Nuisance Detection Squad, with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, seized 136 kg of banned single-use plastic in raids in Mangalwari and Dharampeth zones. Fines totalling ₹90,000 were collected for littering, storing construction material on roads and other civic violations.
Read more at The Times of India →Circular Action Alliance Colorado has added 13 recycling facilities to the state's EPR programme, Recycling Today reports. Its processing capacity now exceeds 200,000 tons a year, and more than 400,000 households have access to free curbside recycling. Only the summary was available to us.
Read more at recyclingtoday.com →The Packaging Scheme Forum, representing 13 of the 15 compliance scheme operators, has launched Keep Packaging Recycling Working as some supermarkets and manufacturers push to scrap the PRN system before the Budget. It says PRNs helped meet recycling targets for three decades, with £95m committed to new infrastructure last year.
Read more at packagingnews.co.uk →The British Soft Drinks Association hopes the existing consultation will allow a broader rethink of how the PRN evidence system sits alongside other packaging reforms, MRW reports. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at mrw.co.uk →Dutch waste tech company Kolekt has launched an EPR Regulation Wizard that it says helps a ministry draft an EPR regulation in as little as three days. Teams answer around 100 questions on covered materials, fees, PROs, informal collectors and enforcement, replacing studies that can cost $500,000.
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Germany's Meurer Verpackungssysteme, with more than 13,500 machines installed worldwide, designed new secondary packaging machines that replace plastic shrink-wrap with paper. Shrink machines rely on energy-hungry heat tunnels, the company notes, while paper brings its own challenges. The heat tunnel can finally cool off.
Read more at Yahoo Finance →ICAR-CIAE Bhopal and Natures Bioplastics have developed biodegradable films for packaging milk and water. Existing biodegradable films struggle with liquids, where leakage, polymers leaching into the contents and structural integrity remain problems, the institute says. Milk has been a difficult customer.
Read more at icar.org.in →Packaging Corporation of America increased profits year on year and quarter on quarter in the third quarter, helped by its packaging segment, Recycling Today reports. Only the summary was available to us. Boxes remain a dependable business.
Read more at recyclingtoday.com →Cirkla, Belmark and Ossid have combined Cirkla's fibre trays, Belmark's resealable lidding film and Ossid's automated sealing into a packaging system for fresh protein, produce and ready meals. The partners say it is the first resealable lidding film on fibre trays at commercial scale.
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Clearwater Paper believes some information it received about a mill acquired from Graphic Packaging was 'either incomplete or inaccurate', chief executive Arsen Kitch said on Monday's earnings call, Packaging Dive reports. Only the summary was available to us.
Read more at packagingdive.com →T. Kishan Singh, director of Hyderabad's Tirumala Balaji Paper, has been elected the 64th president of the Federation of Paper Traders Associations of India for 2026 to 27. The federation represents over 10,000 paper traders across India.
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Delhi-based Zoom Prints has installed a Hyde i3S 330 10-colour flexographic press supplied by Graphic Solution Providers, so it can serve both short-run digital and higher-volume flexo label work. Founder Atul Bhatt said the move was about retaining customers as it expands into labels and packaging.
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An Italian business delegation led by Confindustria Vicenza visited Mumbai in October to explore investment and industrial ties, with Maharashtra promoting its manufacturing infrastructure and investment facilitation. The Italian Trade Agency hosted a networking reception on 15 October, Packaging South Asia reports.
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Greif-Velox and CHG-MERIDIAN are expanding their Packaging as a Service collaboration, combining industrial packaging machines, technical services and rental models so companies can add or modernise capacity without buying equipment outright. Terms and payments are tailored to each customer's finances.
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Fujifilm has signed a global strategic alliance with ePac Flexible Packaging, which will install Fujifilm's high-volume Jet Press FP790 across its print network to raise throughput while keeping short-run and on-demand work. Deployment starts at ePac's new facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Beckhoff Automation has launched the AF1000 series of economy variable frequency drives, a cost-effective option for controlling common industrial motors within its automation ecosystem. It marks the company's entry into the VFD market, filling a gap in its portfolio, said Beckhoff Australia's Harry Mulder.
Read more at packagingnews.com.au →Robotic Automation has been appointed authorised service and support partner in Australia and New Zealand for Mobile Industrial Robots, the Danish AMR maker owned by Teradyne. It covers the full robot lifecycle, from design and commissioning to maintenance and breakdown response.
Read more at packagingnews.com.au →SINOBAKE is expanding in Shunde, Guangdong, after a Huaji Machinery subsidiary acquired a 24,004 square metre site in Beijiao. The planned RMB 500 million project, with about 100,000 square metres of floor space, will make food processing lines, packaging and palletizing equipment and automation systems.
Read more at potatopro.com →Food packaging machinery maker MPE UK moved to Apex Dynamics UK for precision gearboxes after rising prices, slipping lead times and quality issues, including corroding gearboxes, with its previous supplier. Technical director John Hodgkiss praised the consistent quality and lead times. Gearboxes, finally, without rust.
Read more at spnews.com →MicroDynamics has launched PlateIQ, a suite of features within its Veritas platform for measuring, analysing and tracking flexographic plate surfaces as part of quality control. It is built into the company's existing inspection systems. The plates are now under closer supervision than most printers.
Read more at spnews.com →Omori North America and PMI Kyoto have agreed to launch J-Packaging Solutions, which will provide integrated primary and secondary packaging, including flow wrapping, cartoning, case packing, robotics, palletizing and conveying, Packaging World reports. Only the summary was available to us.
Read more at packworld.com →Just Born's Charlotte Ashcraft helped install a multi-million dollar equipment overhaul covering a complete redesign of the Mike and Ike and Hot Tamales theater boxes and three new packaging lines, Packaging World reports. Only the summary was available to us. The candy got new lines, as it were.
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Tata Consumer reported double-digit growth in revenue and profit for the September quarter, though India tea and coffee revenue slipped 1% to ₹1,244 crore with flat volumes. Management cited swings in packaging, freight and fuel costs, with oil at $115, as a drag, ET reports.
Read more at The Economic Times →Amazon and Tata Motors will deploy 3,000 electric trucks across Amazon's transportation network in India, moving shipments between facilities, across cities and along national freight corridors. Amazon calls it the largest electric-truck deployment by an ecommerce company in India. The first batch was flagged off in Delhi.
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Coca-Cola raised its annual profit forecast as soft drink demand held up in markets including India and Brazil, while warning of accelerating cost pressures into 2027. It is offering smaller, cheaper packs in the US, and faces higher packaging and freight costs like other consumer goods companies.
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Clean-food brand Khetika is investing ₹20 crore in its makhana business and has commissioned a 35,000 sq ft processing facility in Patna, closer to sourcing districts such as Purnia and Darbhanga. It launched five flavoured variants and targets ₹500 crore revenue in three years.
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Coca-Cola's Simply Beverages has given its 52-ounce Simply Apple bottles limited-edition winter packaging with a sweater-inspired, knit design, now arriving at retailers nationwide. The juice inside is unchanged, still 100% apple juice never from concentrate. The bottle is dressed for weather it will never feel.
Read more at massmarketretailers.com →Tariffs are making imported packaging costs harder to predict and overseas shipping delays threaten fixed bakery schedules, Baking Business notes, while EPR rules, retailer goals and consumer demand for sustainable packaging grow. For bakeries weighing paper-based trays, pressed paperboard is one option it examines.
Read more at bakingbusiness.com →As retailers prepare to scan 2D barcodes at checkout, brands are using the same code to handle disclosure rules and authentication, Packaging World reports. Only the summary was available to us. One small square is taking on a lot of paperwork.
Read more at packworld.com →Packaging World rounds up refillable and reusable packaging from Wild's children's bath care, Aptar Beauty's redesign of L'Occitane En Provence hand care and a soap refill from Plain B, drawn from ThePackHub's Innovation Zone. Only the summary was available to us.
Read more at packworld.com →Icy Hot faced a puzzle: how to add fragrance to a carton when the embossing die applies exactly the pressure designed to release it. The answer, on Packaging World's Through the Line podcast, was putting the scent in the varnish. Only the summary was available to us.
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Rajkot-based Antala Industries will open its ₹23.33 crore IPO on 29 October, closing on 2 November, with a fresh issue of 34.82 lakh shares priced at ₹63 to 67. It plans to list on the BSE SME platform, tentatively on 5 November.
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UFP Packaging, a division of UFP Industries, has acquired Apache Products, a pallet producer in Silsbee, Texas, expanding its presence across the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. The deal adds 165 team members and all operating assets to supply stringer and heat-treated pallets to the region's petrochemical market.
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Valence-based cardboard packaging maker Karteck has acquired CV Pack of Saint-Chamond, selected on 22 October by the Saint-Étienne Commercial Court over another bidder. CV Pack, founded in 2002 and in court-supervised restructuring since July, had revenue of 2.13 million euros in 2025.
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Neenah-based Outlook Group has acquired the ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions facility in Pewaukee, adding specialty labels, flexible packaging capacity and conductive film printing with in-house ink formulation for medical and electronic uses. The Pewaukee team stayed on and the site completed ISO 9001 recertification.
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EDGE Industrial Technologies has acquired Salinas, California-based Harvest Blade, which sharpens and supplies industrial blades for food processing, packaging, printing and converting customers. The deal adds West Coast operations to EDGE's Red Lion, Pennsylvania capabilities for a coast-to-coast resharpening network.
Read more at pulse2.com →Mediterrania Capital Partners has turned the page on Amcor in Morocco, Africa Business+ reports, with Amcor Flexibles Mohammedia now renamed. The full piece is for subscribers, so the new name and deal details were not available to us.
Read more at africabusinessplus.com →Americhem has acquired Noble Biomaterials, adding antimicrobial and conductive materials technology to strengthen its position in healthcare, textile and aerospace markets, PlasticsToday reports. Only the summary was available to us.
Read more at plasticstoday.com →Packaging, plastics and converting roles in India first, then global, checked today. Every listing links to the original posting. Bring your own bubble wrap.
Packaging and recycling conferences coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Trade fairs and expos are paid listings only.
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