Refill pack using TOYO INK 's peel recycling technology wins the highest award "Japan Star Award" at the "2025 Japan Packaging Contest"

Jointly developed refill packs with improved recyclability with Lion Corporation

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The refill pack of "Look Plus Bathtub Cleansing Clear Citrus Scent Large Refill Size" jointly developed by artience group TOYO INK CO., LTD. (President and Representative Director: Hideki Yasuda) and Lion Co., Ltd. (Representative Director & President Operating Officers: Masayuki Takemori) has been released at the "2025 Japan Packaging Contest" sponsored by the Japan Packaging Technology Association. Among the "Japan Star Awards", which is the highest award in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, we received the "Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Decarbonization Growth-oriented Economic Structure Transition Promotion Officer Award".

Award ceremony (August 27, 2025, at Tokyo Garden Palace)
From left, TOYO INK CO., LTD. yasuaki Ishii, Shina Harako, Takumi Miyagawa, Shinichi Hanada, Takuro Hatanaka, Tsuyoshi Sato, R&D Division, Lion Corporation

Most plastic packaging is printed with ink to enhance the design, in addition to labeling the product name, ingredients, and precautions. In addition, film packaging, such as food packaging and refill packs for toiletry products such as detergents, are often laminated with films of different materials bonded together with adhesives to ensure different performance requirements for each application.
These "printing inks" and "adhesives", which are essential for packaging, are designed to not be easily removed from the plastic, making them difficult to remove during the recycling process, and the inability to extract high-quality recycled plastic has limited the use of recycled plastic. The refill pack jointly developed with Lion Corporation is a practical application of "peel recycling technology" that efficiently recovers single materials that can be recycled from this laminated film. This award was highly praised for its environmental friendliness in that it allows for the efficient recovery of recyclable polyethylene film as a single material by adopting a adhesives that allows multiple materials used in the container to be easily removed while maintaining the quality of the container.

For more information on this initiative, please see the release below.
TOYO INK 's Peel Recycling Technology Adopted in Lion Corporation's Refill Packs
https://www. artience group.com/ja/news/2024/24102101.html

artience group, which has the largest market share in Japan in packaging inks and adhesives, will continue to strengthen its efforts to recycle used plastics by establishing ink and adhesives removal technology and building a recycling system.

About the Japan Packaging Contest

This contest sponsored by the Japan Packaging Technology Association has been held since 1967 with the aim of developing and disseminating packaging and technology that is excellent for lifestyle culture and meets the needs of the times and society, and will be held for the 47th time in 2025. The judges pick up the actual product and evaluate it from all aspects such as materials, design, technology, and environmental protection, and select the highest award, the Japan Star Award, the Packaging Technology Award, and the Packaging Category Award. This year, 12 Japan Star Awards, 6 Packaging Technology Awards, and 13 Packaging Category Awards were selected.
The winning entries will be allowed to use the GP (GOOD PACKAGING) mark on their products, and will be open to the public at the "Lifestyle Packaging Products Exhibition 2025" scheduled to be held in October 2025, and will also be eligible to participate in the "World Star Contest" sponsored by the World Packaging Organization, which gathers winning works from around the world.

Packaging Recycling Solutions
https://www. artience group.com/ja/products/solution/recycle/package.html

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