A pallet of consumer electronics shows up at a retailer distribution center in Hamburg. Cartons intact, product fine, paperwork clean. Receiving rejects the whole shipment. Not the product. The tape. BOPP-sealed corrugated boxes now fall outside the take-back agreement that retailer signed eighteen months ago, because mixed-material packaging requiring manual separation at the sorting stage is no ...
The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU 2025/40, "PPWR") is being phased in, altering compliance standards for all businesses placing packaged goods on the European market. Adhesive tape is classified as a packaging component; therefore, if you purchase tape for use on cartons destined for the EU, the PPWR applies to your supply chain—whether you are aware of it or not. Sp...
Two dates, fifty-nine days apart, are both in the rear-view mirror now. On 12 August 2026, the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — became generally applicable. On 10 October 2026, REACH Annex XVII entry 79 began restricting PFHxA in food-contact paper and board. If you buy packaging tape for goods bound for Europe, the compliance conversation w...
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