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14/02/2023

“ This month it cost $1,444 to ship a standard 40ft steel container from eastern China to the US west coast at short notice, according to shipping data specialist Xeneta, down from a peak of $9,682 in March last year. The widespread delays and queues, which hit ports at the height of the pandemic, have also dissipated.”

30/10/2022

E-commerce related packaging trends in the USA

Cardboard boxes are a really big deal in the U.S. Amazon alone shipped over 5 billion packages through Prime in 2017. But as Amazon moves to plastic mailers ...

02/10/2022

https://www.ft.com/content/d4b1eb9c-05bd-41e2-a210-fc2637785db7

Once touted as redundant, the most quotidian of materials is now a hot commodity again

02/10/2022

How paper is made (start from 1:02)

From pulping, to the actual paper making procedure, to the finishing process — Watch and be mesmerised at how each of our 1.15 million tons of paper is made ...

12/08/2022

" Mass timber is made from new-growth trees, which are usually the result of plantings and more quickly reach their age of use. It helps keep “working forests working”, says Marcus Kauffman of the Oregon Department of Forestry."



https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/08/11/mass-timber-offers-new-hope-for-an-old-industry-in-the-american-west

The strong, sustainable building material may help revitalise forests

23/07/2022

The industrial sector accounts for 37% of Germany's consumption of gas (a third higher than the EU average). 9.2% of that goes into paper manufacturing so 3.4% of Germany's consumption of gas is attributed to paper.

23/07/2022

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This short documentary explores the race to develop new solutions that drive a more sustainable approach to packaging. While materials roadblocks have been t...

22/07/2022

"Edible boxes and bags. Milk jugs with sensors. Personalized wine bottles. These are just a few examples of The Next Normal in packaging industry. They might...

21/07/2022

" This finding leads us to believe that the audience for catalogs is growing, even as the pandemic subsides. The emerging remote/hybrid work culture and consumers’ increased screen time will make analog experiences such as catalogs increasingly appealing and effective.

We found that the ROI of catalog marketing on physical-prone customers is 60% higher than e-commerce-prone customers. These results make intuitive sense — store customers have a higher preference for haptic and sensory experiences, and catalogs provide an extension of these experiences.

Results show that while both designs are effective compared to not receiving the catalogs, designs with photos and narratives are 40% more effective in sales and customer engagement than designs with only photos and product names.

Results show that catalogs featuring hedonic products have 120% higher marketing ROI than utilitarian products, consistent with psychological theories. Higher-priced products also achieved 50% higher marketing ROI compared to lower-priced products. The finding that catalog’s effectiveness is product-type dependent can help explain why while many hedonic and experiential brands such as Birchbox and Lego are implementing catalog strategies, many traditional utilitarian brands such as Ikea have discontinued them. "

Whether or not you should pursue a catalog strategy is a question that deserves significant thought. As digital marketing becomes more complex, it may make a lot of sense to send out correctly designed catalogs to the right customers. For e-commerce retailers without physical stores, catalogs can ef...

20/07/2022

products resistant to water, grease, oxygen, and vapour – all while having no effect on and

Canadian materials science company, Cellulotech claims to have developed a food contact-approved process that makes paper products resistant to water, grease, oxygen, and vapour – all while having no effect on recycling and composability.

06/07/2022

https://youtu.be/-FuJykAUUWU

Recession anxieties are creeping into commodity prices, but various commodities are responding differently to the global economy’s mounting apprehension. Whi...

22/05/2022

20/04/2022

The imports around 150 billion cubic meters of from per annum. To reduce that dependence they would theoretically reduce that by half mostly from , and reducing residential by 1 degree.

It’s no easy task considering how much time it would take to beef up and the LNG supply challenges: insufficient excess production not tied up in long term contracts and competition from Asian buyers who have the proximity advantage to big producers such as and .

And with the part of the , it would be political impossible for Germany to backtrack on closing their remaining reactors.

The would be the most to gain as their producers displace Russia as the dominant supplier of fossil fuels to the European continent