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- Interview with Stéphane Thiollier - New President of Pro Carton - Posted December 2008
- New team in place - Posted January 2009
- Limbic Study - Emotional Packaging Sells! 6th March 2009
- Carton Awards 2009 launched - 6th March 2009
- A Festival for the Environment
- Carton is here to stay!
- Sustainability and Cartonboard Packaging
- Flair and Care, and True Innovation
- Packaging, Design & Marketing - 8th Pro Carton Congress (Düsseldorf/Germany, 25.–26. 11. 2009)
- Revolution of the Authentic
- New Sustainability Website
- Folding Box - an Experience
- Invitation to the Future
- Connecting Business, Creating Value
- The Global Village
- Flair and Care, and True Innovation
- Sustainable Products & Packaging
- The Next Generation:
- Fit for the Future
- In Focus
- The Final Countdown
- Pro Carton 2010
- Outlook on Carbon Reduction
- The Next Generation
- Sustainable Packaging from a Consumer's Perspective
- Welcome to the International Pro Carton Congress!
- Best ideas of the year: the award ceremony
- Best ideas of the year: the winners
- Competitive advantages through intelligent packaging
- European Carton Industry reduces carbon footprint by 7 % in 3 years
- New “Cartons/Environment” Website
- Get inspired!
- Christmas footprint reduced
- Sustainable effects
- Tentacles of Growth
- Corporate Responsibility with Carton
- Gold Medal for Mike Clark
- Pro Carton Study: Is Sustainability in Packaging Important?
- Printed in Blue
- Pro Carton / ECMA Award
- Introduction to a revolution
- Global decision makers: Corporate Responsibility is becoming more and more important
- Innovative cartons attract consumers
- Introduction to a revolution II
- Study: Ethical Consumption
- New Industry Guideline for Paper based Packaging Materials in Contact with Food
- Streamline Your Supply Chain With the New ECMA Codes
- Folding cartons with charisma
- Ask the Expert: Ecodesign
- Cartonboard is the packaging of kings
- “ Carbon Footprint of Cartons in Europe”: Full details of study now available
- Brief Interview with Öystein Aksnes, President of CEPI Cartonboard
- Sustainable Success
- Appeals to (virtually) all senses
- Meeting the Climate Challenge
- Global Leadership
- Innovate!
- Black Gold in a Folded Carton
- “Cartons and Carbon Footprint” – new brochure from Pro Carton now available
- The customer as driving force
- Interview with Roland Rex the newly appointed Chairman of Pro Carton
- Richard Dalgleish
- Sustainability brochure – Update 2010
- Report on ECMA
- Nature – a blueprint for success
- Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2010
- Luxury in Cartonboard
- Unilever commits to sustainable sourcing of paper packaging
- Packaging and the Media Mix
- Smart speedster made of carton
- Integrity amid an ocean of information
- Going cartonboard in the coming decade
- Successful Designs
- Pro Carton launches video on YouTube and on its website about cartons and Greenhouse Gas emissions
- In Memoriam Mans Lejeune
- Brand design
- The Benefits of Green Packaging
- Brand communication and sustainability
- Forests – a basis for life
- Fresh Design from Europe: International Pro Carton Design Award 2012
- Pro Carton at Interpack
- Save Food: protection wins
- New era in the consumer goods industry
- Young Design for a Sustainable Future
- Cartons – best of the show
- Cartonboard and Cartons at Interpack
- Packaging as a marketing instrument
- What do consumers want
- ECMA-Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice for cartons packaging food
- Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2011: interest keeps growing
- A single standard for all
- International Pro Carton Congress: Packaging in a Digital World
- New Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice for cartons packaging food
- Pro Carton/ECMA Award: the finalists
- Pro Carton at the ECMA-Congress 2011
- The Origin of Brands
- Interview with the new Chairman of ECMA
- Pro Carton launches new Resource Efficiency section on its website.
- Beyond the brand
- A Fan of Cartons
- 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRO CARTON CONGRESS: Cartons in a New Dimension
- Last Call for Entries: 5. February 2012 closing date International Pro Carton Design Award 2012
- Scenario 2012
- International Pro Carton Congress - the Programme
- Maximising our Resources
- Positive outlook
- Nestlé goes 'eggstra' mile for Easter with 100% recyclable packs
- Call for entries: Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2012
- News on the Pro Carton Congress: Packaging in a digital world
- Young and vibrant: Pro Carton Design Awards 2012
- Packaging: a medium in the digital age
- Paper and board is the most recycled packaging material in Europe
- Toothpastes and dialogue
- A plea for packaging
- Shoppers: the next generation
- Packaging: a medium with considerable power
- Digital is out?!
- The finalists of the Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2012!
- Call for entries: Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2012
- Strategic packaging with Packvertising
- Pro Carton’s good environmental story continues ...
- The rise of new values
- “Cartonboard Packaging : A Resource and Carbon Efficient Packaging Solution”. New brochure from Pro Carton now available
- Pro Carton at the ECMA-Congress 2011
- Innovation and more: presentation of the 15. Pro Carton/ECMA Award
- Young and vibrant: Pro Carton Design Awards 2012
- Shoppers: the next generation
- The route to the future
- Creativity wherever you look: Award ceremony of the 16. Pro Carton/ECMA Award
- 10 crucial consumer trends 2013
- Leadership for change at scale
- Cartons on tour
- Cartons are unbeatable in the long term
- Call for entries: Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2013
- Smart Packaging on the Horizon
- Structures that pay dividends
- What makes packaging successful?
- Battle of the shelves
- Continual Improvement
- Simplify and Surprise!
- Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2013: record participation!
- The Future is Bright!
- Packaging in a digital age
- Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2013 – the finalists!
- The sustainability of packaging in the retail trade
- The Wow Factor: Presentation of the 17. Pro Carton/ECMA Awards
- 25 years Pro Carton: looking into the future
- The slower you move, the faster you die!
- Revolution in the retail trade
- New Technology – new Pro Carton website
- Trend 2014: A Good Feeling
- Cartons on tour
- Sustainable European paper and board industry
- Say it with a carton
- Retail revolution
- Invitation for entries: Pro Carton/ECMA Award 2014
- Submit now: Pro Carton ECMA Award and Pro Carton Young Design Award
- 2014: Major challenges and great expectations
- Inspirations
- Interpack: Full House
- Global Food Trends
- Pro Carton ECMA Award 2014: Europe expects the finalists
- Cartons: a perfect example of the Circular Economy
- Finalists: Pro Carton ECMA and Young Designers Award
- The Winners: Pro Carton ECMA Award and Pro Carton Young Designers Award
- Pro Carton Website in New Design
- Young European Design
- Re-imagining business
- The Multichannel Challenge
- New series of Infographics about Cartons
- NEW: CALL FOR ENTRIES TO THE PRO CARTON ECMA AWARD 2015
- Infographics 2: Forests and Cartonboard
- Trends 2015: sustainability and individuality
- The world's most successful triangle
- All mediocrity or what?
- Pharma in motion
- The retail trade wants cartons
- Infographics 3: Pro Carton’s carbon footprint
- Young talent in the limelight!
- Paper packaging adds ambition
- The Online Extremist
- Infographics 4: Leaders in Renewable Energy
- Pro Carton ECMA Award 2015 –
the finalists! - Pro Carton ECMA Award:
here are the winners! - Infographics 5: How water is used in making cartonboard
- "In reality, our real customers are the consumers."
- Infographics 6: Recovery and Recycling
- The future belongs to cartonboard
- Sustainability in five languages
- Packaging provides billions of effective advertising contacts
- 10 Top Trends of 2016: The Internet World of Packaging
- New Pro Carton Carbon Footprint: 885 kg CO2 eq / tonne
- "No more plastic!"
- Submit entries now: Pro Carton ECMA Award 2016
- Smart does it
- Marketing high in the skies
- The stars of packaging design:
enter now! - Fine spirits on the Internet?
- Sustainability drives sales
- Vote now for the public winner of the
Pro Carton Young Designers Award - Cartons support the Circular Economy
- More for the money
- #pcyda16: the finalists – vote now!
- Pro Carton ECMA Award 2016 – the finalists!
- Pro Carton Young Designers Award: jubilant young stars
- Pro Carton ECMA Award 2016: the winners
- Sensory packaging
- Getting generations to connect
- Commentary from the new General Manager
- Myths & Facts
- Are you a Star Designer of Tomorrow?
- Be part of Europe's best!
- New Study: The Importance of Sustainability in Packaging
- From the Editor’s desk:
- Update on Regulatory Affairs
- Cartons Don’t Create Plastic Packaging Waste
- Keep it simple!
- Round Table discussion with Roland Rex (President Pro Carton) and Andreas Blaschke (President ECMA)
- The most beautiful new building. Award for new building of Marbach Poland in Kielce.
- With an 18-unit Speedmaster XL 106, packaging manufacturer MPS, part of WestRock, offers designers and brand owners exceptional finishing options
- Metsä Board’s white kraftliner chosen to package one of the world’s finest gins
- Finally – a plastic-free blister pack
- European paper industry shows the way in innovative solutions for energy efficiency and renewables
- Curtains up for WEIG-Karton – at the Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2017
- European Parliament votes in favour of a LULUCF regulation better fit for purpose
- Inside the Jury
- PRO CARTON YOUNG DESIGNERS AWARD: TOMORROW’S EUROPEAN STARS
- CARTON EXCELLENCE AWARD 2017: THE WINNERS
- Luxury goods need bold packaging
- How are cities becoming more sustainable?
- EU decide against plastic tax
- Apple’s Tim Cook plants trees at Iggesund, acknowledges Holmen’s climate-smart efforts
- Metsä Board recognised by CDP as a global leader in sustainable water management and climate action
- Packaging design competition “Better with Less” challenges designers to create more environmentally-friendly solutions
- Why packaging matters to millennials
- European paper industry calls for a reviewed Bioeconomy Strategy that bolsters investment
- Iggesund’s mills receives the highest sustainability rating from EcoVadis
- From the desk of the General Manager
- Award helps open doors!
- No Story. No Glory.
- Pro Carton challenges draft EU plastics strategy
- Multiple awards success for Metsä Board’s SkinCare 2.0 gift box design
- Design Awards now Open!
- Metsä Board launches an innovative eco-barrier paperboard
- From the GM’s desk
- Trends 2018: Market and Packaging Intelligence
- EU governments approve new rules on waste
- The New ECMA President speaks
- The Pro Carton Steering Group
- Are you one of Europe´s Best?
- MMK digital, the new Sales and Service Channel
- Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs
- International Packaging Studies‘ Review
- #pcyda: A record number of entries!
- The Excellence Awards – hear from the judges
- Welcome to the New President
- Paperboard is replacing plastic to reduce climate impact
- Metsä Board receives EcoVadis Gold rating for corporate environmental and social responsibility
- Moving with The Times
- Sonderausgabe absatzwirtschaft zur FachPack 2018
- Just the Ticket!
- Pro Carton Young Designers Award: the new design stars
- European Carton Excellence Award 2018: the Winners
- Verleihung des ersten deutschen FFI/Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2018
- Leistungsschau FFI und Pro Carton FachPack 2018
- Marketing Event: Natürlich erfolgreich!
- Grandiose Premiere des Carton Austria Award!
- Neuromarketing leads to better packaging design
- FOODBOARD™ virgin fibre – award-winning sustainability
- Italian Pro Carton Young Designers Award: the very first time!
- Metsä Board invests in a new sheeting line at its Äänekoski mill
- Pro Carton PROPAK Austria Design Award 2018: Aufgehende Sterne im österreichischen Verpackungsdesign
- London student scoops national packaging design competition
- Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs Update
- Sustainability - a concept from yesterday or for tomorrow?
- Conference backs Circular Economy
- Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2019 – Now open!
- So what do shoppers really think?
- PACKAGING MATERIAL - A KEY ISSUE FOR THE CLIMATE
- Paperboard adds value to cherry tomato packaging in a recent study
- What does Pro Carton do?
- Double Top – Interview with Marie Falk
- Retail trade, brands and packaging – the trends 2019
- The Circular Economy for Kids!
- European Carton Excellence Awards – Even Bigger and Better
- TICCIT In Action
- 9 in 10 Brits prefer Easter eggs to be packaged in cartonboard
- Metsä Board renews its folding boxboard portfolio
- Pro Carton at Packaging Innovations Zürich, April 2019
- The Times - Future of Packaging special report - May 2019
- Stora Enso has launched DuraSense™
- Stora Enso has introduced Cupforma Natura Solo™
- Metsä Board to establish a new Paperboard and Packaging Excellence Centre
- Pro Carton Sea Life Competition
- #pcyda19: New creativity record – VOTE NOW!
- Nine questions to Horst Bittermann, President of Pro Carton
- Where are they now?
- The European Excellence Award – Best Ever!
- The Future of Omni-Channel Packaging
- Cartonboard fibres are fully recyclable
- Kotkamills joins the KooKoo team
- Cartonboard Q&A with Horst Bittermann featured in Analyse: Deutschland
- MMK's UT TRAY BLACK REPLACES PLASTIC PACKAGING FOR FRUITS
- Smurfit Kappa's survey reveals 75% consumers prefer paper-based packaging against less sustainable alternatives
- Print & Paper: Myths & Facts
- Stora Enso and Fiskeby show the way to circular bioeconomy
- Metsä Board introduces a new plastic-free eco-barrier paperboard
- Pro Carton crowns the young designers of tomorrow
- European Carton Excellence Award 2019: 28 Winners!
- Stora Enso introduces a renewable paperboard tube for cosmetics packaging to replace plastic
- New strong cartonboard takes lightweighting to a new level
- Pro Carton PROPAK Austria Young Designers Award 2019: Perfekte Show junger österreichischer DesignerInnen
- Verleihung des deutschen FFI/Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2019 auf der FachPack
- FFI und Pro Carton ziehen positive FachPack-Bilanz
- Le tout premier prix national Pro Carton Young Designers Award France. Félicitations !
- Museum of Brands to celebrate the best of cartonboard packaging in new exhibition: Save the Planet
- ASPACK Celebrate Their Spanish Award Winners
- Packende Zukunft: Pro Carton PROPAK Marketing Event 2019
- Preisverleihung des 2. Carton Austria Award 2019!
- Stora Enso enters collaboration to develop sustainable barriers for formed fiber products
- From the desk of the General Manager
- TICCIT Programme Rolls Out Across Europe ... and Beyond!
- Cartons increase turnover!
- Pro Carton – Museum of Brands competition T&Cs
- United Nations of pcyda
- Museum of Brands – Come to see our new exhibition for free!
- Excellent Carbon Footprint result
- Ravensbourne University Student, Dariusz Kowalczyk, announced as winner of National Packaging Design Competition
- Metsä Board’s impact report showcases importance of sustainable packaging in tackling food waste
- Pro Carton wins European Award
- Kotkamills has signed a significant collaboration agreement with Lavazza Professional
- A vending first, Lavazza Professional launch the revolutionary KLIX Eco Cup™, recyclable with normal paper waste
- ECMA Annual Congress 2020 will be held in Krakow, Poland
- UK announce new coated board guidelines
- Stora Enso introduces new barrier boards to replace plastic in food packaging
- Pro Carton and BPIF Cartons’ advert on front page of The Times’ supplement
- PRO CARTON AT PACKAGING INNOVATIONS BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 2020
- European Carton Excellence Awards: Your Chance to Win!
- The Green Shoots of 4Evergreen
- Pro Carton – A social media strategy that delivers
- Exciting new video award!
- Open letter from ECMA and Pro Carton regarding supply chain
- Ricki Recycle launch on Global Recycling Day
- CEPI letter to EU Commission regarding essential industry
- Cross-border transport of raw materials, goods and packaging should continue
- Suggested “Green Lane” document for Hauliers
- Guidelines for Border Management
- CEPI call for Paper Industry to be classified as a critical value chain
- Pro Carton Press Statement:
- The Carton Campaigners to the rescue!
- Call for even more recycling of paper
- Report on international status and actions
- Carton industry responding well
- McKinsey Guide
- Teaching TICCIT at Home
- President’s statement
- Safety in food packaging more important than ever; Stora Enso
- Production of Protective Masks
- Easter Eggs still popular despite crisis
- Cepi Tribute
- Cepi supports EU Green Recovery
- Key workers
- OVER 750,000 FACE SHIELDS DONATED
- Pro Carton supports challenge to SUP definition
- European Carton Excellence Award: new entry date and digital entry
- Call for modification of SUPD definitions
- 4evergreen appoint Programme Director
- 52 companies to co-operate to replace plastics with natural fibres
- More than 2 million!
- European forest industry calls for EU support
- Packaging Preferences Survey
- Sustainability a top priority
- BillerudKorsnäs introduces a new life cycle assessment tool for packaging
- Baden Board saves food
- Forest-based products important for climate mitigation
- Reply from EU to Cepi letter on SUPD
- Kotkamills’ barrier board receives industrial compostability certification
- Ecorys’ FCM report
- Joint feedback on EU Roadmap on packaging waste
- An overview of the key EU policy issues being addressed by CITPA
- Quiz time!
- EduCarton is the passport to the future
- The Pro Carton website -
a popular resource! - The story of the Giant Dictionary!
- Cartonboard comes out top again!
- 2020 Awards - Superb response!
- Coming out of the crisis stronger
- EU tax on non-recycled plastic
- Key Statistics 2019 - European pulp and paper industry
- Register for the 2020 Carton E-vent & Awards
- Vouwkarton promotes TICCIT and Klasse TV paper and cartonboard education package
- GreenSource promotes forest-fibre
- Response to the EU Consultation on Green Claims
- European Parliament AGRI Committee adopts balanced report on the EU Forest Strategy
- Circular Design Webinar
- Revision in emissions target
- Pro Carton adverts feature in The Times and The Guardian newspapers
- Iggesund Paperboard webinar series on sustainable beauty product packaging
- Important SUP letter sent to EU Commission
- What an E-vent!
- First Pro Carton Student Video Award
- Pro Carton crowns the young designers of tomorrow
- European Carton Excellence Award Winners
- The E-vent – in bite size chunks!
- Museum of Brands, London, showcasing all 2020 ECEA Award winners!
- “Pro Carton – KASAD Young Designers Award’20” - the winners
- Cepi demand SUPD reconsideration
- Free Tickets!
- France celebrates its prize winners
- Paper & Beyond
- Pro Carton PROPAK Austria Young Designers Award-Preisträger: Leuchtende Gesichter
- 4evergreen online launch event & panel debate
- Ravensbourne University Student Chloe De La Fontaine picks up packaging design prize
- Mayr-Melnhof Karton to acquire Kotkamills
- EPRC Monitoring report 2019
- Student design competition open for entries: Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2021
- It’s not all doom and gloom!
- Co-operations and Collaborations
- Communicating during COVID
- Pro Carton Awards: the road to success
- Merry Christmas!
- Call for entries: Pro Carton Student Video Award 2021
- Karton im Megatrend - Pro Carton PROPAK Marketing Event
- 3. Carton Austria Award: schön und nachhaltig!
- All Folding Cartons are recyclable
- New draft guidelines for the Single Use Plastics Directive from the European Commission
- Cepi fact sheet: Transitioning towards a plastics free world
- Study proves environmental benefits of single-use fibre based products
- New Pro Carton Infographic shows Recycling Rates for Packaging Waste
- BPIF Cartons publishes 2021 Yearlet
- Pro Carton joins #Greensource
- European Carton Excellence Award 2021: Let’s Start Now!
- Supply chain is resilient
- European Commissioner to speak at webinar
- Response from European Commission on SUPD
- Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive webinar
- CEPI FACT SHEETS - TRANSITIONING TOWARDS A PLASTICS FREE WORLD
- New Quiz
- MMK to acquire IP Kwidzyn
- UK Advertising
- €1.6 billion investment
- RdM to sell La Rochette
- Update on EU Policy Issues
- European Carton Excellence Award: It's the big anniversary year!
- Pro Carton - ECMA Webinar - Essential viewing!
- Update on 4evergreen
- Stakeholder report on PPWD
- The State of Europe’s Forests Report
- European Carton Excellence Anniversary Awards
- Unbox#2 to be broadcast on April 28th
- Harmonised marking requirements definitions
- Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive Review
- Cepinar! European forests – prosperous and healthy, or in a critical condition?
- Latest on German MOAH Ordinance
- Forests Absorb Twice As Much Carbon As They Emit Each Year
- European Carton Excellence Anniversary Award: Carton Excellence Cup
- Forest Sustainability Report
- #Greensource Activity
- 4evergreen update
- Q&A from ECMA - Pro Carton Webinar - Tuesday 11th May
- European Carton Excellence Anniversary Award:
Hall of Fame - Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Issues
- REINVEST2050 demonstrates industry commitment to support climate neutrality
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