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Bringing creative and sustainable packaging solution is the main goal of the Czech national packaging competition Obal roku. So it was this year when the results were announced. The Food packaging award went to Cardbox Packaging for Míša Multipack, developed for OLMA, a.s..

Pro Carton, PROPAK Austria and the trade magazine CASH have awarded the best Austrian packaging solutions for the fourth time. The competition not only recognises professionals in the field, but also students and their projects. Among the professionals, Cardbox Packaging scored significantly and was awarded both awards!

Being compliant with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and produced according to the highest quality standards prove that cartonboard is not just the most ecologically balanced packaging, but also one of the safest, making it ideal to package a wide range of food items.

MM advances on its growth strategy for Packaging. The Mayr-Melnhof Group (MM) acquired 100% of the shares in Eson Pac, headquartered in Veddige, Sweden, from the majority shareholder Nalka Invest AB as well as family and management minority shareholders.

Canon Production Printing and Canon Inc. have completed the acquisition of UK-based Edale, with the aim of strengthening Canon’s label and packaging business, and creating opportunities for future developments.

After 2 years of meeting online the ECMA SME Forum members are visiting one of their group members Box Marche in Italy from 28-30 March 2022.

Fibre Packaging Europe has released a further 2 Position Papers concerning the Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive, with the draft of this regulation due to be released in July.

ECMA is today releasing the attached statement concerning the German Ink Ordinance – this was adopted in the Bundesrat in November and published in the Official Journal in December 2021.