Utilising digital print to drive packaging innovation
By Lorenzo Angelucci, CEO, Transcend Packaging
If these unchartered times have taught businesses anything, it is the importance of being able to adapt, respond and...
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...
Changing consumer shopping habits is no excuse to overlook packaging sustainability
Wouter van Tol, head of government, community affairs and sustainability at DS Smith, tells Packaging Scotland how firms can maintain packaging sustainability aspirations while...
Induction heat sealing of glass jars containing high-fat foodstuffs
Products with high oil/fat content pose special problems when tamper evident seals are applied to their containers – no more so than when these...
Automation adapts to sustainable packaging
By Patricia Torres, industry marketing manager food and commodities, OMRON Europe
Have you ever ordered a small item online, and then felt incensed when it...
Turning PPWR challenges into opportunities for meat and protein businesses
By Ben Elkington, innovation director, food packaging, kp (Klöckner Pentaplast)
THE meat and protein industry is about to experience a seismic overhaul of the packaging...
AI and the future of packaging
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the disruptive themes set to influence the future of the packaging industry. With a revolution almost certainly at...
Time to take a leaf out of nature’s book
By Winfried Muehling, general manager, Pro Carton
AGAINST the backdrop of COP26 earlier this month, the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) has never been...
Where does 3D printing fit into the plastics manufacturing mix?
3D printing - also called additive manufacturing - is often touted as a trend and technique to rival injection moulding
Real recycling – why governments must rise to the circularity challenge in the 2020s...
By Marcel Arsand, Ball sustainability manager and chairman of The Can Makers
IN THE DECADE ahead forward-thinking cities like New York are set to put a...
