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For Christmas Holidays, our Offices will be closed from the 23rd of December to the 7th of January 2024, both included. We wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. White Gold Packaging srl  ...

17 November, 2023 /

Due to the evolution of the raw material used to produce our stretch films, we present the updated storage conditions below: the duration of the product and its performance depend on compliance with them. For the packaging films with UV additives, the guarantee for outdoor......

14 February, 2023 /

The end of life of products is a particularly topical issue in the EU. The Joint Research Center (JRC), the European scientific commission, which provides independent consultancy services in the EU decision-making process, has published an end-of-life report of a series of materials to identify......

13 September, 2022 /

Aticelca, founded in 1967, the Italian association that brings together technicians and experts from the paper industry, offers a method, Aticelca 501/19, which allows you to assess the level of recyclability of paper and cardboard materials and products. A laboratory analysis, which became standard UNI......

22 October, 2020 /

During the extraordinary meeting of the European Council ended last week, it was reached an agreement regarding the new EU Plastics Tax, which aims to damage non-recycled plastic packaging waste and whose application is expected to start on January the 1st, 2021, as a part......

31 July, 2020 /

AIPE, the Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene, has decided to support and promote the qualities of EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) with a short movie on YouTube (in Italian language), where a polystyrene ball explains the EPS qualities with an easy speaking, able to capture the interest......

22 July, 2020 /

Regarding the COVID-19 emergency, we communicate that there are no suspected or verified cases within our offices and in our production sites: our business is proceeding as usual. All our staff is informed and comply with the guidelines issued by the national and regional Sanitary......

05 March, 2020 /

The world of recycling is enriched with a new experience. In Italy, the city of Verona experiences the recycling of used diapers (baby diapers, sanitary napkins and adult diapers), placing smart bins outside the kindergartens and supermarkets, suitable containers for the separate collection of this......

20 January, 2020 /

The plastic is definitely in the foreground in the European context with various initiatives to achieve the goal of eliminating environmental pollution induced by plastic waste abandoned on the coasts and in the seas, promoting new plastic materials friends of nature, as well as forms of......

08 November, 2019 /

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I think it is, what I say, what you want to understand, what you mean, what you understand … there are ten possibilities for having communication difficulties. But let’s try anyway … Bernard Werber The......

04 November, 2019 /

The IAL Consultants has prepared a report on the use of materials for building insulation in the European market; AIPE, the Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene, has also collaborated, sending data about the Italian market. The European market has been divided into three areas, Western......

11 October, 2019 /

A group of Greek researchers from the University of Thessaloniki conducted a conservation study that can be obtained using EPS boxes and corrugated cardboard boxes for vegetables, using broccoli, tomatoes and leaves of baby spinach. The EPS boxes have proven to be better than corrugated......

12 September, 2019 /

AIPE (Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene) has published an article published in the British magazine Global Gypsum Magazine, written by Martin Wiesweg, regarding the prospects for the development of the EPS market. The article considers the moment to be decidedly good, with a growth prospect......

30 July, 2019 /

We spoke in the previous news of the European Directive, approved on June the 5th , aimed to drastically reduce plastic from marine litter. Once published, Member States must translate it into concrete initiatives that, within the reasonable time of two years, will lead to......

29 July, 2019 /

The last European directive, of which we have spoken in our previous news, highlights in an ever more marked way the European desire to build a future in which plastic waste is no longer dispersed in the environment but entirely collected and recycled. The EPS......

10 July, 2019 /

On June the 5th , the European Parliament approved Directive 2019/904 concerning the reduction of certain plastic products, which are mostly present among the waste abandoned along the Union coasts and polluting sea. The rule comes into force 20 days after publication, ie by the......

01 July, 2019 /

The magazine Il Salvagente has conducted a series of tests on takeaway pizza cartons and, although the sample under test is not relevant, it has found quantities of Bisphenol A higher than those required by the limits declared as tolerable in Europe. The products tested......

01 June, 2019 /

The safety of a helmet is essential to ensure the safety of the wearer. Starting from a post published on heavydriver.corriere.it, a meeting was held at the Politecnico of Milan, to give a concrete answer to the doubt that assails several motorcyclists: when should I change......

20 May, 2019 /

Polystyrene is defined as an “earth care” material throughout its life cycle. It consists of polystyrene granules, a thermoplastic resin obtained from three consecutive processes: • The synthesis of ethylene and benzene which produces ethylbenzene; • The hydrogenation of ethylbenzene that produces styrene; • •......

17 May, 2019 /