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22august 2023

China energy crisis deepens, power rationing extends to factories

China is currently experiencing one of the worst energy crunches in its recent history, due to a combination of factors that range from a shortage of coal from suppliers, skyrocketing coal prices, a growing demand for energy from both household and industrial consumers (night temperatures fell sharply, prompting a spike […]

22august 2023

SUP Directive: Transposing efforts are advancing with different steps

The national efforts across EU to transpose the EU Directive 2019/904 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (SUP Directive) are taking place at a rather slow pace. Two months after the entry into force of the Directive, it turns out that progresses are […]

22august 2023

IMPORTANT: XPS food packaging products can still be used

XPS food packaging can still be used in an important number of European countries. Given that in various EU member state the process of transposing the EU Directive 2019/904 was not completed, XPS food packaging still represents one of the options available and will continue to be so until otherwise […]

22august 2023

Heat-sealable catering products made of rigid PP, a modern option for takeaway packaging

BFG Packaging, established in Romania in 2008 and known for its capacity and variety as a producer of packaging products for the food industry, launched a new product range of heat-sealable catering products as an alternative to XPS/EPS catering products.The new products of the rigid PP range contain heat-sealable partitioned […]

22august 2023

BFG Packaging’s new Romania production plant for ecological and biodegradable packaging is nearing completion

BFG Packaging Romania keeps its investments and development strategy in line despite provocations induced by the coronavirus pandemic, that brought along with it various physical constraints and limitations.After a full summer of dedicated work at its new ecological and biodegradable packaging plant in Petrești (Dâmbovița County, southern Romania), the company […]

22august 2023

Raw material crisis impacts the manufacturing industry

Manufacturers producing added value commodities on a large scale remember the year of 2021 as being a tough one. Shortages of raw materials and logistics bottlenecks made business very difficult. The corona crisis was the trigger that stood at the basis of it all. Company managers, freight transport operators, […]

22august 2023

China, from “The World’s Factory” to source of “the big problem” the world is facing

The outbreak of the COVID-19 endemic in China two years ago set off a global health crisis as well as an economic one. The new context affects both the way companies perform and the people’s standards of living, reshaping all together the global economy by slowing the pace of […]

22august 2023

EPS vs. XPS packaging products interpretation by authorities leads to a tough decision by BFG Packaging

The delays registered by various countries in transposing the Single Use Plastics Directive into their national framework, as well as the difficulty in other countries to properly enforce the Directive, generated confusion in the marketplace while the transition period […]

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