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How to survive packaging’s peak season

For e-commerce businesses facing the all-important Christmas peak, the combination of high demand, huge product variability and acute time constraints can create a packaging...
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The packaging price is only the start

Markus Mueller, sustainability regulatory expert, MM Group, explores what food and drink brands should be asking packaging suppliers A packaging quotation gives you a price....
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PPWR: bottlenecks and creative solutions

David Griffin, VP global sales and products at Selig Group, discusses the bottlenecks, shifting sustainable packaging strategies, redesign challenges, and liner innovations that are...
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The future of packaging is not more packaging

By Matt Boyle, sales director, food & retail, Europe, Metsä Board IF there is one thing I hear repeatedly in conversations with food and retail...
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Are you testing the metal detector correctly, without slowing your line?

By Kati Hope, global key account manager, Mettler Toledo Metal detector testing can look like a simple process. Pass a test piece through, check the...
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PPWR marks a new chapter for circular packaging in Europe

As the first measures of the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) take effect from August 12, Horst Bittermann, director general of Pro...
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The materials that keep ‘craft’ alive

By Jordan Scott, head of marketing at James Cropper CRAFT is a human story. It belongs to makers; to weathered hands, legacy knowledge, and skills...
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Earth Overshoot Day puts the spotlight on circular packaging

By Winfried Muehling, director of marketing & communications at Pro Carton TODAY marks Earth Overshoot Day, the point at which humanity has used more natural...
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Building FX resilience in the packaging sector

Eliot Bassett, MD at Lumon Pay, explains how ongoing global conflicts are reshaping the operational landscape for the UK packaging sector CURRENCY volatility is one...
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Why sustainable packaging is really a production issue

Lachlan Buirds, MD at Edale, explores the hidden production impact of sustainable packaging WHEN it comes to sustainability in packaging, it is increasingly decided long...