How sensitive is your food metal detector?
By Phil Brown, Fortress Technology’s European managing director
THEORETICALLY, many variables will determine the sensitivity of a food inspection metal detector. Among them the aperture...
Listen to the consumer to beat ‘plastic pollution’
By Winfried Muehling, marketing & communications director, Pro Carton
WORLD Environment Day, on 5th June 2023, is a worldwide campaign calling for global solutions to combat...
Automation can help businesses respond to future challenges
Smarter technology to help streamline operations, automate processes and provide valuable production data can deliver a critical competitive advantage to food businesses, explains Torsten...
Making responsible packaging choices
Sabert UK & Ireland MD Alex Noake says plastic bans, taxes and other legislation have created a great deal of confusion for operators and...
The road ahead for packaging
By Sujan Shah, CEO, Rocaba Packaging Ltd
The packaging industry has made seismic shifts over the last two years.
E-commerce played a role in this. Most...
Food waste issues – can packaging play a part?
By Mark Shaw, new product development technical manager, Parkside
FOOD waste is attracting significant attention around the globe and with good reason. Food waste is...
Is £200 a tonne enough to move the dial?
Kathy Illingworth, head of sustainability consulting at Ecoveritas shares some insight into the Plastic Packaging Tax and questions if the price is right to...
GS1-128 barcodes: a secret weapon in challenging times
Optimising GS1-128 barcodes in partnership with a trusted technology provider gives manufacturers visibility of the entire supply chain for more efficient inventory management, rapid...
Neural networks: the artificial additive that is missing in vegetable processing
By Paul Wilson, MD, Scorpion Vision Ltd
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arrived in the fresh produce industry and the results are astounding: waste associated with...
The packaging challenges posed by an ageing population
Industry faces the challenge of creating packaging that is secure and tamper-proof, but also easy to open for elderly consumers and those who lack...
