Updated 23 Oct 2026
Every account of Europe's hotel miniature ban ends with the same reassurance: the product does not disappear, it moves into a refill. The reassurance survives until you divide. A 300-millilitre refill holds ten times a 30-millilitre miniature, so 2.70 billion packs become 270 million refills carrying the same 80.9 million litres — and a business paid per pack loses 90 per cent of its units while its product volume does not move at all.
Packaging Rigid & Thermoformed Packaging
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Nineteen Caribbean jurisdictions each wrote their own rule about a shopping bag between 2013 and 2020. Four are still outside the regime, and one of those four is the only place in CARICOM that actually makes refuse bags. That is why the region's USD 27.14 million trash bag market is protected by a tariff rather than by a cost advantage — and why its real risk is a millimetre, not a policy.
Packaging Flexible Packaging
Updated 22 Oct 2026
The 25 ppb and 250 ppb PFAS limits measure what a producer added. The 50 ppm total-fluorine limit measures what is already in the recycled fibre they bought — and 42 per cent of Europe's barrier-bearing fibre pool is made from it. Why the constraint is analytical, not chemical.
Packaging Paper & Fibre-Based Packaging
Updated 22 Oct 2026
Ley 30884 moved roughly 14,050 tonnes out of expanded polystyrene between 2020 and 2022 — 19.6 per cent of today's pool — and that transfer is finished. What compounds instead is a clamshell worth 62 per cent more per tonne and an industry so cheap to enter that the law can deliver volume but never margin.
Packaging Rigid & Thermoformed Packaging
Updated 18 Oct 2026
Single-dose packaging is splitting into two businesses with opposite trajectories: the clinical monodose that has become the standard in ophthalmology and ENT, and the convenience sachet the EU removes from the market on 1 January 2030. The value sits in the blow-fill-seal line rather than in the laminate.
Packaging Rigid & Thermoformed Packaging
Updated 18 Oct 2026
The cup splits into board, barrier coating, forming, lid and channel. Only one of them is a commodity — and the legal definition of plastic decides which you can sell.
Packaging Paper & Fibre-Based Packaging
Updated 18 Oct 2026
Thermoformed packaging can switch material faster than any other format. The limit is not the machine or the demand — it is what a bottle reclaimer will accept in a bale.
Packaging Rigid & Thermoformed Packaging
