Boxing clever for the recovery

Packaging’s role in encouraging sales and supporting brand positioning will be all the more important as business seeks to recover from the coronavirus pandemic...

Revolutionising packaging: exploring sustainable and innovative solutions

By Felicity Kelly, head of sustainability at Bunzl Australia & New Zealand With the increasing calls for sustainability, every industry faces the imperative to adapt...
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Reducing costs and protecting food safety with physical contamination detection

By Mike Pipe, head of product inspection UK, Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection WHEN Chewters Chocolates in Canada made the shift to automate its production and packaging...

The new packaging trend meat processors are in touch with

Global supply chain disruption has led to meat processors increasingly embracing a ‘touchless’ trend of packaging automation. Stephanie Poole, senior business development & retail...

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...

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.

Giving sustainability a luxurious look

Luxury and sustainability can go hand in hand, explains Graeme Riddell, commercial director, Pusterla Pollards UNLIKE many of the wealthy celebrities and influencers who post...

The future of manufacturing: five key trends to watch out for in 2024

Technological advancements, climate change, and geopolitical tensions have transformed the global manufacturing landscape in recent decades. Here, Carl Haycock, UK operations director, Domino Printing Sciences,...
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The importance of pallet quality in automated systems

WITH almost all goods, especially those in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, being moved on pallets, it is no surprise that there has been a steady growth in the use of automated pallet-handling systems.

Packaging fit for the future

By Rob Carle, DS Smith e-commerce team E-COMMERCE is growing at an unprecedented rate around the world and has resulted in huge demand for packaging...