artience Honored with Japan Star Award

The refill pack of “Look Plus Bathtub Cleansing Clear Citrus Scent Large Refill Size,” jointly developed by artience group‘s Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. and Lion Co., Ltd., 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, artience received the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Decarbonization Growth-oriented Economic Structure Transition Promotion Officer Award.

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. 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.

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.