Big cities like Barcelona hide surprises. You just have to walk through them with your eyes open and your gaze high to meet curious and shocking elements. One of these surprises is the one next to the square of the Glòries, behind the building
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Barcelona hosts Free From Plastic Packaging
On 28 and 29 May, Fira de Barcelona will host Free From Plastic Packaging, an exhibition dedicated to the plastic-free packaging sector. The exhibition focuses on presenting innovative alternatives to plastic specially designed for the food industry
A cardboard building that is still standing 100 years after being built
That cardboard is a tough material is something we don't tire of remembering in this blog. That converted into cardboard box is ideal to protect and safeguard what it contains we also repeat it often. But what surprises us even is what
A beauty queen among cardboard boxes
Cardboard boxes serve a lot of things. To save objects, to move them, to protect them. There's no day when we don't find a new utility. However little we could imagine that we would see an actress posing naked rod
Online commerce is a challenge for the packaging industry
Following the success of the “Packing Dialogues” conference cycle that was held in 2018 for the first time organized by Fira’s Hispack salon in Barcelona and the IQS Executive Education, a new day will be held next March 19 in Madrid. E
ALL4PACK – International Packaging Exhibition in Paris
From 26 to 29 November 2018, the international exhibition ALL4PACK Paris will welcome professionals from the packaging and packaging industry from more than 100 countries. For four days, ALL4PACK will become an exchange space, present
Environmental comparison between corrugated cardboard and plastic containers
The Institute for Sustainable Production carried out a comparative study between corrugated cardboard and reusable plastic containers for the international transport of fruit and vegetables to major European countries, a key sector in which, let us remember,
Great 2 meter cardboard box with statue of Soul Calibur
Today we want to present a construction with cardboard boxes, unusual, built with the intention of promoting a famous video game. The impressive 2 meter statue uses the reused cardboard from the food boxes of the restaurant chain ame
May 17th is World Recycling Day
World Recycling Day has been created in 2018 to help recognize the importance of recycling in preserving our precious primary resources and ensuring the future of our children on the planet. The intention is to repeat each
For a free plastic world!!!
More and more consumers and citizens are joining the green conscience and even though some (like our Twitter user Donald Trump) are insisting that there is no problem with the environment, we are at the door of a catastrophe and those responsible
Mercadona joins the Plastic Free initiative
The Mercadona network has incorporated in 11 supermarkets in Barcelona, Valencia, Baleares and Bizkaia the possibility of customers taking the purchase in paper bags or cardboard boxes, ahead of a foreseeable ban on plastic bags. ‘D
Hispack 2018, the packaging trade fair, begins
Today, Tuesday, May 8, Hispack 2018 opens at the Montjuïc exhibition venue, gathering in just under 40,000 m2 around 800 exhibitors. A complete program that offers all companies in the packaging sector a space for reflection,
Nintendo Labo: The revolution of cardboard toys!
Nintendo Labo is offered individually in different Kits, each containing a set of pre-cut cardboard pieces and other materials, which serve to create the "Toy-Cons". Labo was announced on January 17, 2018. According to Nintendo President
Cardboard boxes with Applicatives. New packaging of Zara
Discover the collection and buy the actually enhanced look by viewing this box on your mobile This is the warning that appears in the new ZARA boxes. The note is written on a side sticker in the box containing the garment we have acquired,
Ready for combat? The Carton War!
Cardboard boxes, tape and glue for a battle of epic proportions!!! Welcome to Boxwars, the strange medieval-inspired sport that gives children and adults the opportunity to participate in an epic battle. Participants meet
First plastic-free supermarket in Barcelona
Barcelona joins the list of cities moving towards a world free of plastics and their toxic effects. The inauguration of a new "Plastic Free" supermarket in the Barcelona neighbourhood of Santo Antonio, a few weeks after the Dutch chain Ekoplaz
Ekoplaza Lab, the first “plastic-free” supermarket
The Dutch chain Ekoplaza, specialising in organic and ecological products, opens a new space in the centre of Amsterdam taking advantage of citizen awareness with recycling. This new concept of Supermarket has been baptized as Ekoplaza Lab.
Finland’s famous cardboard box for babies wants to change its name
A few years ago the world learned from a BBC report that Finnish parents put their newborns to sleep in cardboard boxes, the first reaction was to question the effectiveness of this system in the face of traditional cradles. The box.
Waveboard, the best alternative for 2018
Studies carried out by FEFCO across Europe confirm the advantages of corrugated cardboard as being more ecological and economical than plastics. These studies show that corrugated cardboard is the best packaging material for the transport of all types of materials.
What is the future of corrugated cardboard?
All professionals in the corrugated cardboard industry are watching where the market is headed. What are the latest technological developments and what is expected of a sector like ours? One of the most important challenges facing you
Instant packagery at a click!
New forms of online shopping have created a new type of customer, the instant consumer, who wants to consume his product immediately, receive it at home and in perfect condition. The impact that the new digital era is having on the economy
Fx Sanmartí collaborates with Run Design to promote STEM education
Fx Sanmartí collaborates with Run Design team for the promotion of STEM education. Are you ready for citizen science? Do you want to know how engineers solve practical problems? To know why of the scientific phenomena present in
The Wikkelhouse, a recyclable cardboard house
This Fiction Factory video does not prove that residing in a cardboard home is possible! [vimeo 156852806 w=640 h=360] The Dutch architecture studio Fiction Factory, developed this house made entirely of 100% recyclable cardboard. They make them.
Corrugated cardboard figures in Spain
COMPARIOUS 2014-2015 Invoicing 2015 4,387 million euros. 4,190 in 2014 55.73 kg of cardboard per inhabitant per year. 52.62 in 2014. 10,400 direct jobs. 22,000 indirect in 2015 2,869,000 tons of paper. 2,712 in 2014. 4,759 million square meters























