Food fraud: taking action to preserve public trust
By Mike Seed, IRMS sales and product manager, Elementar UK
THE Covid-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for the food industry. From reduced consumer demand...
Thin walling delivers the whole package
Thin walling has long been a practice in primary food and medical packaging to save material, showcase brand quality and maintain manufacturing standards. Nigel...
Biffa warning: waste reporting needs to be taken seriously
As Scottish packaging businesses look towards 2026, Roger Wright, waste strategy & packaging manager at Biffa, says that the policy landscape remains one of...
Flexible by design
By Stuart Coulton, marketing manager, OMRON Electronics Ltd
Every year, a number of words drop out of the dictionary. That is to say, they become...
Taking your carton packaging from tired to inspired
By Stephen Shortland, managing director at New Vision Packaging Limited
Chances are, when you read the word 'cartonboard', your first thoughts conjure up images of...
Are you FMD-ready?
Pharmaceutical manufacturers must now comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) which is aimed at reducing the number of falsified medicines infiltrating the European...
Small changes can make a big impact when it comes to sustainability
Shelley Pierre, commercial director of IPP, argues the case for positive chaos in the battle against climate change
A hummingbird flapping its wings in one...
Co-creation: when vision meets precision in every sheet
By Stephanie Walker, head of technical at James Cropper
CREATIVITY is often thought of as the product of a single, gifted person. Think of the...
Can (and should) sustainability be a USP for food brands?
GOOD news! Sustainability has arrived at the heart of the c-suite: and thank goodness there are opportunities to make money from it too.
Evolving tradition: preserving colour for six generations
By Mark Cropper, chairman of James Cropper
FOR as long as humans have existed, we’ve been using colour to express ourselves.
Social interactions have evolved, whole...
