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Last Nov. 21, one of the leading international packaging and material handling trade fairs, ALL4PACK Emballage Paris 2022, was held at Paris Nord Villepinte. It was an in-person exhibition for the first time after four years of absence due to COVID-19, which both exhibitors and visitors seemed lively and enthusiastic than ever before. At this four-day exhibition, about 4,500 experts and 1,100 exhibitors from 80 countries participated, which 50% of them came from out of France, allowing them to experience various products and materials. (ALL4PACK) With the theme of this year’s ALL4PACK, “Lead the Revolution,” the director of ALL4PACK Emballage Paris, Guillaume Schaeffer, said ‘The 2022 edition of ALL4PACK Emballage Paris will open the era of revolutions for this French trade show, which has become an international benchmark for the entire packaging and intralogistics ecosystem. We want to be the forerunner of new packaging solutions as well as the production chain.” Schaeffer also emph...

Various expos and exhibitions have briskly resumed from the pause due to the recent global pandemic, COVID-19 and recently held 2022 ESG-ECO EXPO KOREA is one of them. This year’s expo, which had been held online for a few years, was the very first time to have an on-site exhibition and received a lot of positive feedback. The 2022 ESG-ECO EXPO KOREA took place at the COEX on Nov. 9 - 11, hosted by the Ministry of Environment and organized by KEITI (Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute). Approximately 160 companies related to green infrastructure; including energy, architecture and mobility; green consumption, including products, distribution & service and food; and ESG management, including environment, social and transparent management; were participated and operated about 500 booths. This year’s exhibition not only showcased various eco-friendly technologies and products more than ever, but at the same time, various ESG professional forums and events were held...

With 1,300 companies and 66,000 visitors worldwide, the ALL4PACK Emballage Paris will be held at Nord Villepinte in Paris from November 21 to 24. In this exhibition, we expect to see packaging and equipment facilities and sustainable innovation solutions covering all four industries, including packaging, processing, printing, and logistics. rePAPER participates in the ALL4PACK with reliable solutions for the environment, such as RP-SERIES and REPA-COAT, which have 99.5% recycling, home composting, food contact stability, and packaging functionality. See you at the ALL4PACK exhibition, 21~24Nov 2022! If you would like to visit the repaper booth, please get in touch with us via the email below, and we will send you an e-invitation. widinsprit@repaper.kr

Greenwashing is deeply intertwined in many areas than we think. Last year, the International Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) found about 40% among 500 websites surveyed were misleading consumers with vague and ambiguous descriptions such as ‘eco’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘natural.’ How about containers and packaging? The purpose of packaging is to protect and preserve the contents of the product. Surely, the design on the packaging attracts consumers by showing the features of the product and exceptional container that is made with exceptional materials directly affects the sales. As we can see, packaging of a product plays a big role in marketing. So, let’s take a look at some greenwashings in the world of packaging. Dilemma of Cosmetics Container We often go to the mall to buy a gift on a special occasion for someone special. Even before you test them, you find yourself mesmerized by the upscale cosmetics with luxurious packaging or containers displayed under the lighting. The...

Most of the inventions are motivated to help and improve the inconveniences in our daily life. For instance, Ermal Fraze invented “pull tab” cans when he struggled to open a bottle of soda at a picnic with friends and family, Washington Sheffield was a dentist who invented toothpaste in a collapsible tube because he thought it was unsanitary to share the toothpaste in one jar with others, and Wayne Fromm thought of the idea of a selfie stick and commercialized it when he couldn’t find anybody to ask to take a picture for him because no one around him spoke English while traveling in Europe. The way straw was invented was the same. In 1888, Marvin Chesster Stone enjoyed drinking a cup of whiskey after working all day at a cigarette factory at Washington D.C. One day, he tried using natural ryegrass straw to sip his whiskey since he did not like how the taste of the whiskey changes with the warmth of his hands. However, he was not satisfied with the undesirable grassy flavor from the s...

‘2022 Lecture For Educating Future Upcycling Experts’ was held at Seoul Upcycling Plaza last September 4. Seoul Upcycling Plaza, located in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, opened in September 2017, for fostering upcycling industries and providing civic education to practical cooperative organization of resource circulation which was created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and managed by the Seoul Design Foundation. <Korea Herald Business> At the Seoul Upcycling Plaza, you can visit the upcycling product exhibition and participate in various programs, discover new creations of unique designs made with discarded items and even make purchases of various upcycled and eco-friendly products. Moreover, you can witness how resident companies research and manufacture upcycling products. It truly is a place dedicated for upcycling. The '2022 Seoul Upcycling Week’ was going on when we visited for the lecture. The lobby was filled with various events and exhibitions. Lecture For Educating Fut...

‘Wish not for more or less, may it always be like Chuseok.’ Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving Day, is the biggest holiday in Korea where you share and appreciate the year’s harvests with your family, friends and colleagues on the day of the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It may have different names and dates for countries around the world, there will be a holiday where you celebrate with your loved ones. During this holiday, people in Korea, it is a custom to exchange gifts with family, friends and colleagues as a way to express gratitude to one another. However, the amount of packaging that comes with the gift is quite large and made of various materials that waste disposal is a huge burden on society. The look of gift sets changed over time The economic prosperity of the 1980s affected the consumer market, hence the beginning of the Chuseok gifts sets market, which was composed of various canned foods, toiletry products, and cooking oil sets. Since the mid-1980s as the econ...