Packaura
/ October 18, 2026
Packaging industry news moved quickly this week. International Paper confirmed it has unsolicited bids for its EMEA business, the Circular Action Alliance filed a much cheaper California EPR plan, and a Maine water utility took two packaging suppliers to court over PFAS. This packaging industry
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Packaura
/ October 4, 2026
Packaging industry news this week centered on a compliance date that arrived while its enforcement is still blocked. California’s SB 343 recycling-label date landed on October 4 under a federal injunction. Elsewhere, a bipartisan Senate bill would ban PFAS in food packaging, new research made
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Packaura
/ September 6, 2026
Packaging industry news this week was dominated by a third wave of containerboard price hikes, a landmark federal court win for Oregon’s extended producer responsibility law, and the very first global World Packaging Day. Anyone tracking packaging industry news closely also saw compostable materials face
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
If you ship into the EU, a new packaging law is about to change how you box orders. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) — Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — puts a hard numeric limit on how much empty air you’re allowed to ship inside
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
If you manufacture, import, or place packaging on the EU market, the clock is running. From 12 August 2026, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) — requires every packaging type to be backed by a signed Declaration of Conformity (DoC).
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Packaura
/ July 12, 2026
If you sell packaged goods into the EU, you’ve probably run into breathless warnings about a “2027 Digital Product Passport mandate for packaging” and wondered whether you’re already behind. The good news: the real legal picture is more specific — and more manageable — than
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Packaura
/ July 8, 2026
The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), formally Regulation (EU) 2025/40, is phasing in one of the most significant overhauls of packaging law in the bloc’s history. Reuse is one of its most operationally demanding pillars: starting in 2030, a meaningful share of transport,
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Packaura
/ June 22, 2026
Brands everywhere are committing to recycled-content packaging, but specifying PCR correctly — and finding a PCR packaging supplier who can actually document their claims — is harder than it looks. Post-consumer recycled (PCR) material is not the same thing as “recycled content” in the broadest
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Packaura
/ June 21, 2026
Packaging industry news this week is headlined by International Paper’s $360 million acquisition of North Pacific Paper Company (Norpac), a second wave of containerboard price hikes now biting buyers across the board, several state packaging laws entering enforcement, and Canovation and CANPACK formalizing their resealable
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Packaura
/ May 9, 2026
Refillable packaging has moved from niche eco-positioning to mainstream brand strategy as L’Oréal, Unilever, Henkel, Procter & Gamble, and Estée Lauder brands like Aveda pilot refill programs across personal care, cleaning, and beauty. With EPR fee schedules in the EU and U.S. now penalizing single-use
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Packaura
/ April 27, 2026
Packaging news April 2026 is shaping up as one of the most consequential weeks of the year for compliance teams, M&A watchers, and sustainability leads. From a Virginia Tech bioplastic breakthrough that finally makes compostable films industrial-speed-friendly, to three U.S. states converging on a May
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Packaura
/ April 20, 2026
Packaging news April 2026 is defined by hard deadlines and consolidation: CD&R closed its $10.3B take-private of Sealed Air on April 9, ProAmpac finalized its TC Transcontinental flexible packaging pickup, an EPR reporting deadline looms on May 31, and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste
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