How a rebound in North American containerboard pricing can inform export packaging quotations, long-term price discussions, and corrugated specification decisions for Korean suppliers.
A practical guide for export packaging teams on reading PPWR together with ESPR, focusing on recyclability, material records, information duties, and documentation for paper-based packaging.
Drawing on Fraunhofer’s PAPURE project and IOM3 reporting, this post organizes what laser-treating paper surfaces and bonding them under heat and pressure could mean for paper-packaging recyclability. It also walks through the paper conditions, seal strength, throughput, quality control, and pre-commercialization checks that have to be verified.
Saying a package is recyclable is no longer enough. Drawing on the AI-based recycling sortation data case between Greyparrot and Kenvue, this post organizes how labels, pumps, color, and material combinations affect actual recovery rates, and how to translate that into packaging specs and EPR documentation.
Industrial paper cores and paper tubes used to wind film, fabric, paper, and label stock are not simple cylindrical packaging; they are load-bearing components supporting production, storage, and transport. This post explains how to organize a purchase specification around inner diameter, outer diameter, wall thickness, length, compression strength, moisture conditions, edge reinforcement, and test documentation.
Spain’s Saica Group is acquiring Germany’s Thimm Group. This post unpacks why family-owned consolidation in the European corrugated packaging market is accelerating, and what Korean exporters and packaging buyers should watch.
A practical look at where paper-based insulated shipping boxes can replace EPS and plastic cold-chain packaging in fresh food delivery, with clear limits based on performance, cost, recyclability, and operating conditions.
A practical look at WPO’s Interpack 2026 wishcycling signal, explaining why recyclable claims must match actual collection, sorting, and reprocessing systems, and how B2B paper packaging teams can turn that into design checkpoints.
For K-beauty ODM/OEM manufacturers and brands, EU PPWR and UK pEPR should be managed as one packaging data workflow covering containers, folding cartons, cushioning, transport packaging, buyer evidence, and fee exposure.
A practical guide to reading and applying ECT, BCT, and the McKee formula at the quoting stage. Covers compression strength calculations, stacking load, safety factors, humidity effects, and pallet conditions using real-world calculation tables.