NEWS
Huhtamaki grows H1 sales and profits
Finnish packaging giant Huhtamaki grew both sales and profits in the first half of this year. Sales rose 2% to nearly €1.7 billion (US$2bn) for the period. At the same time, profitability (adjusted EBIT) rose 9% to around €157m (US$186m). Its food service business in Europe, Asia and Oceania (EAO) performed best – with sales up by 15% to €443m (US$526m) for the period. Sales in North America fell by 5% to €551m (US$654m), while flexible packaging sales rose 1% to €538m (US$639m). In terms of profits (adjusted EBIT), food service EAO rose by 59% and flexible packaging fell by 4%. Profits in North America grew by 2%.
“Our second quarter results were
strong – although with mixed perfor- mance across the different regions and businesses,” said Charles Héaulmé, president and CEO of Huhtamaki. “However, the global food packaging market remains volatile with significant challenges in many countries still heavily impacted by the pandemic.” The company’s most recent acquisition – that of Chinese Jiangsu Hihio-Art Packaging – was completed in June.
In addition, the company has invested in new manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and Russia. �
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Collect all flexible packaging waste in Europe, says Ceflex
Ceflex, the large-scale European consortium for flexible plastics packaging recycling, has issued a new position statement regarding collec- tion of waste. This position statement is part of an ongoing alignment on key issues among the Ceflex stakeholders. More than 300 stakeholders took part in a process from September 2020 to Feb- ruary 2021 involving two webinars, interviews and two-day workshop, to agree the statement. There are four main elements in
the Ceflex position statement regard- ing collection in European countries: n All flexible packaging must be targeted for collection and sorting, including on-the-go packaging; especially in those few countries where it is not yet collected, like the UK n Flexible plastic packaging should be collected as a separate stream or with other light packaging and not
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STRETCHING THE LIMITS
BOPE packaging for our future sustainability
mixed with paper, board or glass, to maximise recycling quality n Additional sorting of flexible packaging from mixed waste is likely necessary to access all flexible packaging materials and enable circu- larity n Ceflex and its stakeholders aim to work with the national authorities and Extended Producer Responsibility schemes to develop effective collec- tion systems that allow for these materials to be sorted and recycled. �
https://ceflex.eu
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