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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...



















