The plastic packaging financial time-bomb

By Dom de Ville, senior consultant at Sancroft, an international sustainability consultancy, which works with companies to improve their environment, ethical and social impact Plastic...

Think your contract packing or manufacturing operations are digitalised? Perhaps it’s time to think...

Josephine Coombe, Managing Director of Nulogy in Europe, highlights how many contract packers rely on inflexible legacy systems and processes that are unable to deliver the wider opportunities that true digitalisation delivers.
Andy Maddock

New UK/EU deal: passing on the BTOM?

Andy Maddock, IPP’s regional managing director, considers whether the new UK/EU deal signals the end of delays over border food classification. There is a lot...

Unpacking sustainability

Hugh Lightbody, chief officer of the Business Gateway National Unit, explains that help is available for businesses looking to invest in more sustainable packaging...

Plastic pallets could ease supply chain ‘woes’ this Christmas

PLASTIC pallets could help tackle supply chain challenges this Christmas. That's the view of Goplasticpallets.com (GPP), in light of concerns over price rises and...

EPR delay makes this a dangerous time for recycling

David Wilson is director of compliance at Vanden Recycling, experts in plastics recycling. He shares his thoughts on the EPR delay and the impact...

Five ways to boost e-commerce packaging performance

By Jo Bradley, business development manager for packaging solutions at Quadient THE Centre for Retail Research expects e-commerce sales in Western Europe (UK, Germany, France,...

Tale of the tear tapes

By Sarah Rutland, market development manager at Filtrona Tapes There is no room today for the pleasantly old-fashioned in a congested, fast-paced packaging world anymore....

Adopting new ways of working to suit the new normal

Amid the Covid-19 lockdown, Rick Hindley, executive director at Alupro, discusses how the industry body has adapted its operations to continue delivering its work...

Keeping food safe with x-ray inspection

By Mike Pipe, head of global sales & product management, Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of manufacturing, the safety and quality...