UK – In line with Herb UK’s environmental market positioning, Spectra Packaging recently created new recycled packaging for the brand owner’s Organic Hair Colour Systems products.

GERMANY – Beverage brand Haindl’s has added a new packaging format for its carbonated bitters products to appeal to younger and more active consumers.

UK – Unilever has introduced a new ‘compressed’ aerosol that it hopes will revolutionise the deodorant aisle and make it more sustainable.

The new deodorants require less propellant to deliver each spray, allowing the can to be reduced in size resulting in a 25% carbon footprint average reduction per can.

GERMANY - Henkel and DaniMer Scientific LLC have formed an alliance to develop hotmelt adhesives that use bio-based raw materials. The initial target for these bio-based hotmelt adhesives will be the consumer packaging market including applications of end of line and labelling.