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 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
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
