Video contest challenges students to promote benefits of cartonboard packaging

ENTRIES are now open for the Pro Carton Student Video Award 2023. The competition challenges budding filmmakers to submit creations promoting the benefits of folding...

Designer wins award for second year running with eco-friendly design

A Swedish designer has scooped a top prize at the Pro Carton Young Designer Awards for the second year running. Marie Falk’s packaging solution ‘Save...

Smart packaging innovation aims to inspire personality-based drinks

TETRA Pak has teamed up with Appetite Creative to create an interactive smart packaging experience for a European fruit juice producer. Focusing on passion fruit,...
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FEFCO summit: “Onwards with modernisation”

PROFESSIONALS from around the world attended the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) Summit in London from 4-6 June. Several speakers addressed FEFCO’s...

Onex to buy SIG Combibloc Group

PRIVATE Equity firm Onex has agreed to acquire SIG Combibloc Group. The takeover is anticipated to formally close in the first quarter of 2015, subject...

£13.5 million Livingston packaging facility officially opened

COMPACK Cartons’ new packaging facility in Livingston has been officially opened following a £13.5 million investment by Port Glasgow-based parent company McLaren Packaging. Neil Gray...
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Carton Campaigners highlight the ‘5Rs of responsibility’

PRO Carton - the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers – is marking European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) by launching The Carton Campaigners: five...

Juice brand unveils sustainable smart packaging

SPANISH juice brand Don Simon has unveiled its first 100% environmentally friendly and smart packaging. In partnership with packaging supplier Elopak and creative technology studio...

Flexo print process for decorative corrugated

DESCRIBED as a major breakthrough in decorative corrugated packaging, corrugated packaging specialist Charapak has, in conjunction with Forum Packaging, launched what is described as...
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Automation helps meet shelf-ready criteria

A newly-installed fully-automated case-erecting and robotic-loading solution by Endoline Machinery at Nairn’s Oatcakes has automated a labour-intensive operation, improved efficiency and overcome previous limitations...