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September 15, 2025
Metal food and beverage cans often contain a coating to keep the food or drink separate from the metal. Epoxy-based can coatings containing bisphenol A dominated the market for many years. Epoxy is still a large share of coatings but formulations without BPA, and other types of coatings have entered the market due to toxicological concerns, public outcry, and regulatory decisions over BPA-based resins. This FPF article provides background information on the requirements, materials and properties of can coatings.
Reading time: 22 minutes
August 14, 2020
Report by Smithers predicts compound annual growth rate of 3.8% for mono-material plastic packaging films on global market; sees fast growth for polyethylene and polypropylene, slow growth for regenerated cellulose fiber, decline for polyvinyl chloride materials
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July 13, 2020
Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging initiative (CEFLEX) releases guidelines focused on polyolefin-based flexible packaging; includes recommendations on article’s size and shape, as well as on materials used, including barrier layers, coatings, inks, adhesives
Topics: circular economy, polyolefins
Reading time: 1 minute
June 23, 2020
Industry association Plastic Recyclers Europe (PRE) publishes market data related to annual production, use, and recycling of flexible plastics in the EU; food packaging sector primarily uses polyolefin films, presence of multi-material films complicates recycling; more infrastructure for collection, separation, recycling needed
Topics: plastics, polyolefins
Reading time: 2 minutes
December 16, 2019
Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative calls for comments on polyolefin-based packaging design guidelines; online consultation open until January 17, 2020
Topics: polyolefins, recycling
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May 7, 2019
Plastic Recyclers Europe reports 1.7 million tons of installed recycling capacity for the waste stream, packaging still the largest use
Topics: polyolefins, recycling
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September 10, 2018
Plastics Recyclers Europe's ‘RecyClass’ project releases testing protocol for evaluating recyclability of polyethylene plastic films
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August 22, 2018
Annual summit on the future of the polyolefins industry to take place on January 16-17, 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium; registration now open
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June 22, 2018
Scientists study migration from food packaging films made of polypropylene; 74 compounds identified, 76% of them NIAS; 35% of samples show migration exceeding either SML or Cramer class-based recommendations
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January 17, 2018
EFSA’s CEF Panel considers HDPE and PP made from recycling process ‘Morssinkhof Plastics’ suitable for use in food contact articles intended for dry foods, fruits, vegetables and meat under specific conditions
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